Modern Passings : Death Rites, Politics, And Social Change in Imperial Japan

Acknowledgements ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1(20) 1 Of Buddhas and Ancestors 21(20) 2 The Shinto Challenge to Buddhist Death 41(26) 3 The Great Cremation Debate 67(24) 4 Divesting Shinto Funerals 91(15) 5 Grave Matters 106(27) 6 Dying in Style 133(38) Epilogue: The Japanese Way of Death and Its Critics 171(6) Notes 177(40) Bibliography 217(12) Index 229