The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution . A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and Imagination

Abstract/Sommario: Imaginations of hell appeared in Japanese culture beginning from the classical period. Numerous characterizations of damnation in the Buddhist canon set out threats combined with moral instruction. They describe judgement and retribution as occurring in actual places, precisely located in Buddhist cosmologies, and the experience of punishment as physical. The same sources describe hell as provisional