Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution Cards ・仕事を辞めるかどうかの基準

・仕事を辞めるかどうかの基準

is the first complete retrospective of Masuno's work to be published in English

with all its traditional qualities joined to modern architecture and viewed from a modern perspective

by Irmtraud

the principle of enlightenment

Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution Cards ・仕事を辞めるかどうかの基準by James Edward Ketelaar How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late