Networks of Faith & Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839–1403 CE

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Notes

1. The Chinese quarter in Nagasaki, formed well after its predecessor in Hakata, played an important role in the time leading up to the arrival of the Obaku monks. For the most thorough source on this historical episode, see Yamamoto, Nagasaki Tōjin yashiki.

2. Welter examines Eisai’s second trip to China in light of his foiled attempt to travel to India, thereby providing a new perspective and paradigm to Eisai’s Buddhist aims as well as the role that Hangzhou came to play in redefining China, and East Asian Buddhism as a whole, not as a periphery to the Buddhist world, but as a center. See Welter, ‘Borderland Complexes and Translocations.’