Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan

The Institute is happy to announce publication early this coming spring of 2002 by the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, of the first ever English language book devoted to the study of women and their role in the history of Japanese Buddhism from its first introduction to Japan until the Meiji Restoration.

This collection of pioneering studies represents many years of labor by 21 Japanese and North American authors and 12 translators. Publication has been made possible by the generous financial support of the Japan Foundation, the Tides Foundation, and the Medieval Japanese Studies Foundation. Further, the book has been greatly enriched by the addition of more than 90 illustrative plates, many in color, made possibly by the strong encouragement and a generous grant from the Toshiba International Foundation.

For inquiries and orders, please contact the University of Michigan Press at the following:

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Gentleman Defeats a Demon at the Game of Sugoroku and Wins a Beautiful Woman

Professor X. Jie Yang (University of Calgary), is well-known to us all for his path-breaking CD-ROM, KanaClassic: An Electronic Guide to Learning Classical Japanese Kana Writing, sponsored by the Institute and the Japan Foundation. The Institute is now helping to support his next project, which is a CD-ROM presentation of the famous emaki work Haseo soshi, utilizing the three extant Edo-period picture-scroll versions. Professor Yang has already begun demonstrating his break-through method for studying and teaching this classic work by means of CD-ROM in academic conferences in Canada and Japan. Look for his new book just out from Kadokawa shoten, Oni no iru kokei: "Haseo soshi" ni miru chusei, which is an excellent companion to the forthcoming CD-ROM.