Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System.(Book review)

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Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System. By Nam-lin Hur. Harvard East Asian Monographs 282. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2007. xvi + 566 pp. $55.00 cloth.

In Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), Buddhism held an anomalous position. It was not formally a state religion, it played no part in government rituals, and the Tokugawa government seems to have been little influenced by Buddhist principles. Yet all families were required by law to be registered in a Buddhist temple, and everyone was buried in a ...

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