Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives by Sachi Schmidt-Hori (review)

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1 Rieko Kamei-Dyche, “Networks of Wealth and Influence: Spatial Power and Estate Strategy of the Saionji Family in Early Medieval Japan,” in Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan, ed. Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott, pp. 319–50 (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018). Though it covers a slightly later period, Michelle Damian’s chapter in the same volume, “As Estates Faded: Late Medieval Maritime Shipping in the Seto Inland Sea,” pp. 351–76, addresses both commodity flows and the Seto Inland Sea estates, which Kawai discusses in chapter 10. 2 Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (New York: Scribner, 2020); Christina Laffin, Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013); Sherry J. Funches, “Finding Sanjō Genshi: Women’s Visibility in Late Medieval Japanese Aristocratic Journals” (PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 2017). For an earlier work with a significant focus on poetry, see Edward Kamens, The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashū (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1990).