Engendering faith : women and Buddhism in premodern Japan /

Table of Contents: “…The formation and growth of Buddhist nun communities in China / Chikusa Masaaki ; Philip Yampolsky -- Empress Kōmyō's Buddhist faith: her role in the founding of the state temple and convent system / Mikoshiba Daisuke ; Carol Hochstedler -- State Buddhism and court Buddhism: the role of court women in the development of Buddhism from the seventh to the ninth centuries / Hongō Masatsugu ; Massayo Kaneko -- Vicissitudes in the ordination of Japanese "nuns" during the eighth through the tenth centuries / Paul Groner -- Tonsure forms for nuns: classification of nuns according to hairstyle / Katsuura Noriko ; Virginia Skord Waters -- Buddhist convents in medieval Japan / Ushiyama Yoshiyuki ; Anne Dutton -- "Nun shogun": politics and religion in the life of Hōjō Masako (1157-1225) ; Martin Collcutt -- Nuns and other female devotees in Genkō shakusho: Japan's first history of Buddhism / Marian Ury ; Robert Borgen -- Temple divorce in Tokugawa Japan: a survey of documentation on Tōkeiji and Mantokuji / Anne Dutton -- Mantokuji: more than a "divorce temple" / Diana E. …”