{"content":[{"text":"Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 42/1: 27–70 \n © 2015 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture","bbox":{"left":0.160494,"top":0.071591,"width":0.33765600000000007,"height":0.030769000000000005}},{"text":"Ryūichi Abé","bbox":{"left":0.160494,"top":0.215735,"width":0.11893200000000001,"height":0.02227599999999999}},{"text":"Revisiting the Dragon Princess \n Her Role in Medieval Engi Stories and \n Their Implications in Reading the Lotus Sutra","bbox":{"left":0.160494,"top":0.259129,"width":0.472252,"height":0.08129100000000006}},{"text":"This article examines how the Dragon Princess, one of the most celebrated \n characters in the Lotus Sutra, is represented in the noh drama Ama and the \n Heike Nōkyō sutra set. By doing so, it debunks the prevailing consensus in \n understanding the Dragon Princess and her episode in the sutra, and illus- \n trates a hitherto unnoticed intrinsic affinity between medieval Japanese engi \n stories and Buddhist scriptural narratives.","bbox":{"left":0.185166,"top":0.648915,"width":0.654309,"height":0.11159799999999997}},{"text":"keywords: Lotus Sutra—Dragon Princess—henjō nanshi—ryūnyo jōbutsu— \n Buddhism—gender and narrativity—Heike nōkyō—ama (female diver)","bbox":{"left":0.185187,"top":0.799904,"width":0.654266,"height":0.03546500000000008}},{"text":"Ryūichi Abé is Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard \n University.","bbox":{"left":0.185187,"top":0.877641,"width":0.654604,"height":0.033341000000000065}},{"text":"27","bbox":{"left":0.50225,"top":0.922709,"width":0.02019000000000004,"height":0.02126399999999995}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}