Narratives of sorrow and dignity: Japanese women, pregnancy loss, and modern rituals of grieving

Part 1: Approaching the worlds of mizuko. Mizuko kuyō: Memorial services for child loss in Japan

Architectural, iconographic, doctrinal features of mizuko kuyō

Situating the rites of mourning: Two temples and a variety of visitors

The phenomena of mizuko kuyō: Responses to pregnancy loss.

Part 2: Deciphering the worlds of pregnancy loss: Women, men, and the unborn. Japanese woman as housewife, mother, and worker: Patterns of change and continuity (1868-2010)

Ancestors, angry spirits, and the unborn: Caring for the dead on the path to ancestorhood

Mothers, society, and pregnancy loss: Rethinking the meaning of nurture.

Part 3: Relating mizuko rei to the larger worlds of profound loss

The revival of death, the rebirth of grieving, and ways of mourning

Rituals of affliction; An invitation to sobriety.

Appendices. Adashino Nenbutsuji, English language text of mizuko kuyo service

Yvonne Rand, Jizo: Protector of travelers into and out of life

Sai-no-kawara text, tr. of Manabe Kosai. Jizo-bosatsu no kenkyu [research on Jizo Bodhisattva]. Kyoto: Sanmitsudo shoten, 1960

Yasuo Sakakibara, Economic development and temple economics in Japan.