Scholarly research on mizuko kuyo has largely focused on its religious and social
implications with a specific emphasis on its historical development as a significant Buddhist …

The term mizuko kuyo describes a relatively new (mid‐19th century) Japanese ritual
performed by women who have had abortions or have lost infants in childbirth. The ritual …

In many Japanese religious institutions, hundreds of statuettes, often dressed in red hats
and bibs, have been erected en masse since the 1970s. They are Mizuko Jizō, or …

Scholarly research in recent years has resulted in the publication of numerous books and
articles on abortion in Japan, and on Buddhist rites (mizuko kuyō) for the spirit of the aborted …

Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion
debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo--a Japanese religious …

Among the most common rituals in Japan, the Buddhist post-pregnancy loss ritual mizuko
kuyō has come to America. Mizuko kuyō first arrived in Japanese-American Buddhist …

The bodhisattva Jizō in Japan has long been associated with a stone figure of a child monk,
wearing a red bib and standing on the roadside in the quaint landscape of rural Japan …

The expression mizuko kuyō,'memorial services for “water children”', denotes a ritual
commemoration of perinatal death in Japan and describes a recent phenomenon that …

This book presents a case study of shichigosan, an extremely popular childhood family ritual
in contemporary Japan. It is an interesting example of a custom with very ancient roots …

Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes examines the affairs of Rinzai Zen's Tōkeiji Convent,
founded in 1285 by nun Kakusan Shidō after the death of her husband, Hōjō Tokimune. It …