Refuge in the Past during the Final Age
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a poetic preface from this time—“Upon hearing the carriages returning
from the Urin’in
nenbutsu
services deep in the night”—Edward Kamens
characterizes the “famous” Urin’in as “a monastery that was often favored
by visitors from the imperial court.”
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While it is impossible to be sure
what the valence of the Urin’in would have been at the time of
The Great
Mirror
’s composition, within the world of the text, the temple was at its
peak.
Further complicating the Urin’in’s significance
is the fact that it
also had ties to the popular courtly literature of the day, including
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