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Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters Tohoku University

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Professor HORI Yutaka

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History glimpsed in the body

Even if the Emperor passes away he is not acknowledged as dead. The court society adopted this odd custom in the middle of the Heian period. The body might appear the same across times and places, but its perception within people’s minds changes incessantly. So what will we see when we grasp those changes and delineate the culture and politics of a given time and place?

  • Research, History
  • Books, papers, etc.
  • Courses
    Japanese History (Special Lecture);
    Ancient and Medieval History in Japan (Advanced Lecture)
    Personal History
    1991 Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University
    1997 Completed the doctoral program (without a doctoral degree) at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

    Career:
    Full-time Lecturer, Shoin Women's Junior College
    Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Osaka Shoin Women’s University
    Current position
    Degree
    Ph.D. (Literature)
    Field
    Japanese Ancient History
    Research Subject
    Structural study of the Emperor’s authority (1997-present);
    Japanese religions in East Asia (1995-present)
    Keywords
    The Emperor; death; religion; Buddhism; East Asia
    Affiliation
    Tohoku Historical Society; The Japanese Society for Historical Studies; The Society of the History of Buddhism
    Database of Researchers Information
    http://db.tohoku.ac.jp/whois/detail/b5b1fcf10c22e17406772933525dc21f.html
  • Books
    『仏教がつなぐアジア―王権・信仰・美術―』、勉誠出版、2014 （co-editor）
    Academic Papers
    「国分寺と国分尼寺の完成」、『国史談話会雑誌』第56号、2015、45-60
    「平安新仏教と東アジア」、『岩波講座日本歴史』第4巻、岩波書店、2015
    「東北の神々と仏教」、『東北の古代史』4、吉川弘文館、2015
    「八世紀の図讖と皇位継承―孝謙・称徳天皇を中心に―」、『日本中世のNATION３』岩田書院、2013、163-190
    「多賀城廃寺小考―尊像と塔―」、『東北アジア研究センター報告』第10号別冊、2013、6-22

Research

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