Gendering the Study of Shugendo : Reconsidering Female Shugenja and the Exclusion of Women from Sacred Mountains

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• In Japan, the study of Shugendo has long been undertaken from the perspective of religious studies, folklore studies, and history. However, certain arguments formulated from a conventional viewpoint have tended to dominate the subject. In particular, in research on Shugendo and women, the problem of the exclusion of women from sacred mountains has been widely examined in terms of its relationship with the issue of the "kegare (impurity)" of women as based on reproductive function. The real circumstances and experiences of female shugenja cannot be found in these studies. Therefore, this paper is an attempt to analyze female shugenja in a comprehensive way from the perspective of gender studies, and it utilizes fieldwork undertaken by the author as a participant in Shugendo ascetic practices. As a result, a view of the female shugenja's religion is revealed as is her absence, and her lack of voice on debates regarding the issue.

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• Kobayashi Naoko

  Aichi Gakuin University

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