Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan Drott Hardback

Cent nigmes de la peinture\nby Edward R. Drott\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Edward R. Drott\nTitle: Cent nigmes de la peinture\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Buddhism\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9780824851507\nISBN-10: 0824851501\nRRP: \u00A360.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nScholars have long remarked on the frequency with which Japanese myths portrayed gods (kami) as old men or okina . Many of these sacred elders came to be featured in premodern theater, most prominently in Noh. In the closing decades of the twentieth-century, as the number of Japan's senior citizens climbed steadily, the sacred elder of premodern myth became a subject of renewed interest and was seen by some as evidence that the elderly in Japan had o.