Nam-Lin Hur
Biographic Data
| ID | 743830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nam-Lin Hur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nam-Lin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hur |
| SIGNATURE | HUR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Korean Captive-Turned-Monk (Nichiyō) in Japan and Longing for Family Reunion in the 1620s
Honmyōji Temple in Kumamoto preserves copies of four letters exchanged in the early 1620s between a father, Yŏ Ch’ŏn’gap, in Chosŏn, and his son, Yŏ Taenam (Nichiyō), in Japan, although one of the letters was never delivered. Both father and son were abducted to Japan during the Imjin War (1592–1598), but while the father was able to return home, the son was not. In the late 1610s, upon learning that his son, now the abbot of Honmyōji, was alive …
Buddhist Monks and Corvée in Mid-Chosŏn Korea: Recruitment, Justification, and Governance
What did Buddhist monks do in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? From the government’s perspective, monks were not legitimate members of society entitled to pursue Buddhist ideals but were rather evaders of public duty who were nonetheless permitted to survive on the margins. It was therefore only natural that the state mobilized them as a source of corvée labor when needed. During the Imjin War (1592-1598), Buddhist monks were r…
The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire, by David Weiss
Political Tool of "Immoral Rituals" and Resilience of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea
Confucians in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) employed the notion of "immoral rituals" as a tool to control Buddhist and shamanic rituals in a selective manner. In Confucian terms, immoral rituals specified those that were dedicated to "ghosts or deities who do not deserve worship", and, in most cases, they referred to non-Confucian prayer rituals. Buddhist prayer rituals (and shamanic rituals) were largely subject to control by Confucian state official…
Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident, by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman, and Mark Teeuwen (trans.)
Chosŏn-Centrism and Japan-Centrism in the Eighteenth Century: Han Wŏn-chin vs. Motoori Norinaga
The eighteenth century was a peaceful era for East Asia, ruled by the emperors of Ching. However, intellectuals who refused to accept the Great Ching order appeared in Chosŏn and Japan. They developed homeland-centric ideologies. This article compares the Han Wŏn-chin (韓元震, 1682–1751)‘s Chosŏn-centrism with the Motoori Norinaga (本居宣長, 1730–1801)’s Japan-centrism. There is a lot of research about the Norinaga’s Japan-centrism in Japanese academia,…
Takeshi Moriyama. Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society: Suzuki Bokushi, a Rural Elite Commoner
Takeshi Moriyama examines a life story of Suzuki Bokushi (1770–1842), a rural elite commoner who authored (in collaboration with Santō Kyōzan) the Hokuetsu seppu (literally, North-Etsu snow album), “an ethnographic account of . . . Bokushi’s home region” (2). Bokushi and the Hokuetsu seppu, which was published in 1837 and 1842, have been a popular topic of scholarly discussion in Japanese studies. To this, Moriyama adds a most detailed, innovativ…
Tools of Culture: Japan's Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s–1500s (review)
Reviewed by: Tools of Culture: Japan's Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s–1500s Nam-lin Hur (bio) Tools of Culture: Japan's Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s–1500s. Edited by Andrew Edmund Goble, Kenneth R. Robinson, and Haruko Wakabayashi. Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, Mich., 2009. xix, 315 pages. $28.00, paper. The editors suggest that Tools o…
Han Yong’un (1879–1944) and Buddhist Reform in Colonial Korea
The practice of Buddhism in colonial Korea holds the key to understanding how Buddhist reformists tried to counter the challenges of modern transformation. Steeped in the traditions of Sŏn orthodoxy and lay salvationism, Korean Buddhism faced a new age with the arrival of the Japanese, who tried to restructure Korean Buddhist institutions according to Japan's colonialist governing system. Looking at the example of Han Yong'un, who spearheaded Bud…
Invitation to the Secret Buddha of Zenkōji: Kaichō and Religious Culture in Early Modern Japan
In early modern Japan, for Buddhist temples endowed with famed "secret Buddhas, " the kaich was a lucrative means of public fundraising. In particular, at a time when a large-scale project such as building or repairing a Main Hall required sizable funding, many temples often turned to holding kaich events, during which lay Buddhists evinced a spectacular enthusiasm for the secret Buddhas that were on display. Through the example of Zenkji, this a…
Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan Nam-Lin Hur (bio) Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. By D. Max Moerman. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2006. xv, 297 pages. $42.50. In this first comprehensive English-language monograph on premodern Japan's Kumano cult, Max Moerman aptly situates Kumano as a topos of death and p…
Danna Temples, the State, and Anti-Buddhist Criticism
The Danka System and Funerary Buddhism
Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System
Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensoji and Edo Society
The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensoji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the degenerate Buddhism of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensoji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo. Play was an integral part of the business of religion at Sensoji, and the temple supplied both in equal me…
Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensoji and Edo Society
The Sōtō Sect and Japanese Military Imperialism in Korea
The Sōtō sect was actively engaged in Buddhist propagation in colonial Korea after having succeeded in establishing its first missionary temple in Pusan in 1905. By the time it withdrew from Korea in 1945, the Sōtō sect had secured an extensive propagation network connecting more than one hundred temples. Despite its successful Buddhist polemics, Sōtō's Buddhist teachings in Korea were basically political propaganda viable only within the framewo…
Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Japan: A Documentary History: Volume I and II
The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
Prehistoric Japan: New Perspective on Insular East Asia
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The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan
Prehistoric Japan: New Perspective on Insular East Asia
Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Japan: A Documentary History: Volume I and II
The Sōtō Sect and Japanese Military Imperialism in Korea
The Sōtō sect was actively engaged in Buddhist propagation in colonial Korea after having succeeded in establishing its first missionary temple in Pusan in 1905. By the time it withdrew from Korea in 1945, the Sōtō sect had secured an extensive propagation network connecting more than one hundred temples. Despite its successful Buddhist polemics, Sōtō's Buddhist teachings in Korea were basically political propaganda viable only within the framewo…
Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensoji and Edo Society
Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensoji and Edo Society
The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensoji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the degenerate Buddhism of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensoji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo. Play was an integral part of the business of religion at Sensoji, and the temple supplied both in equal me…
Danna Temples, the State, and Anti-Buddhist Criticism
The Danka System and Funerary Buddhism
Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System
Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan (review)
Reviewed by: Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan Nam-Lin Hur (bio) Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. By D. Max Moerman. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2006. xv, 297 pages. $42.50. In this first comprehensive English-language monograph on premodern Japan's Kumano cult, Max Moerman aptly situates Kumano as a topos of death and p…
Invitation to the Secret Buddha of Zenkōji: Kaichō and Religious Culture in Early Modern Japan
In early modern Japan, for Buddhist temples endowed with famed "secret Buddhas, " the kaich was a lucrative means of public fundraising. In particular, at a time when a large-scale project such as building or repairing a Main Hall required sizable funding, many temples often turned to holding kaich events, during which lay Buddhists evinced a spectacular enthusiasm for the secret Buddhas that were on display. Through the example of Zenkji, this a…
Tools of Culture: Japan's Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s–1500s (review)
Reviewed by: Tools of Culture: Japan's Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s–1500s Nam-lin Hur (bio) Tools of Culture: Japan's Cultural, Intellectual, Medical, and Technological Contacts in East Asia, 1000s–1500s. Edited by Andrew Edmund Goble, Kenneth R. Robinson, and Haruko Wakabayashi. Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, Mich., 2009. xix, 315 pages. $28.00, paper. The editors suggest that Tools o…
Han Yong’un (1879–1944) and Buddhist Reform in Colonial Korea
The practice of Buddhism in colonial Korea holds the key to understanding how Buddhist reformists tried to counter the challenges of modern transformation. Steeped in the traditions of Sŏn orthodoxy and lay salvationism, Korean Buddhism faced a new age with the arrival of the Japanese, who tried to restructure Korean Buddhist institutions according to Japan's colonialist governing system. Looking at the example of Han Yong'un, who spearheaded Bud…
Takeshi Moriyama. Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society: Suzuki Bokushi, a Rural Elite Commoner
Takeshi Moriyama examines a life story of Suzuki Bokushi (1770–1842), a rural elite commoner who authored (in collaboration with Santō Kyōzan) the Hokuetsu seppu (literally, North-Etsu snow album), “an ethnographic account of . . . Bokushi’s home region” (2). Bokushi and the Hokuetsu seppu, which was published in 1837 and 1842, have been a popular topic of scholarly discussion in Japanese studies. To this, Moriyama adds a most detailed, innovativ…
Chosŏn-Centrism and Japan-Centrism in the Eighteenth Century: Han Wŏn-chin vs. Motoori Norinaga
The eighteenth century was a peaceful era for East Asia, ruled by the emperors of Ching. However, intellectuals who refused to accept the Great Ching order appeared in Chosŏn and Japan. They developed homeland-centric ideologies. This article compares the Han Wŏn-chin (韓元震, 1682–1751)‘s Chosŏn-centrism with the Motoori Norinaga (本居宣長, 1730–1801)’s Japan-centrism. There is a lot of research about the Norinaga’s Japan-centrism in Japanese academia,…
Christian Sorcerers on Trial: Records of the 1827 Osaka Incident, by Fumiko Miyazaki, Kate Wildman, and Mark Teeuwen (trans.)
The God Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory: Ancient Myths and Modern Empire, by David Weiss
Political Tool of "Immoral Rituals" and Resilience of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea
Confucians in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) employed the notion of "immoral rituals" as a tool to control Buddhist and shamanic rituals in a selective manner. In Confucian terms, immoral rituals specified those that were dedicated to "ghosts or deities who do not deserve worship", and, in most cases, they referred to non-Confucian prayer rituals. Buddhist prayer rituals (and shamanic rituals) were largely subject to control by Confucian state official…
Buddhist Monks and Corvée in Mid-Chosŏn Korea: Recruitment, Justification, and Governance
What did Buddhist monks do in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? From the government’s perspective, monks were not legitimate members of society entitled to pursue Buddhist ideals but were rather evaders of public duty who were nonetheless permitted to survive on the margins. It was therefore only natural that the state mobilized them as a source of corvée labor when needed. During the Imjin War (1592-1598), Buddhist monks were r…
A Korean Captive-Turned-Monk (Nichiyō) in Japan and Longing for Family Reunion in the 1620s
Honmyōji Temple in Kumamoto preserves copies of four letters exchanged in the early 1620s between a father, Yŏ Ch’ŏn’gap, in Chosŏn, and his son, Yŏ Taenam (Nichiyō), in Japan, although one of the letters was never delivered. Both father and son were abducted to Japan during the Imjin War (1592–1598), but while the father was able to return home, the son was not. In the late 1610s, upon learning that his son, now the abbot of Honmyōji, was alive …
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