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As evening shadows lengthen we look back, nearly a quarter century, to the start of a project now finally realized. Our collaborative article, “Sanctuary: Kamakura’s To\keiji Convent,” appeared in the June-September 1983 issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies through the efforts of Nanzan’s James W. Heisig, W. Michael Kelsey, and Kyoko Nakamura. A few years earlier Sophia’s Michael Cooper had patiently edited our “Mirror for Women” and published it in Monumenta Nipponica (1980). Two main pieces were now in place for what we would come to see as part of a more ambitious project, and we are grateful to all who helped us in these tentative years. The article slowly expanded into a book-length manuscript as myriad influences, some friendly, some hostile, left their mark on the undertaking—and all deserve our thanks. Even before we consciously embraced the project, the conditions making it possible and even likely were present: the To\keiji itself, and its abbot, Inoue Zenjo\, with whom we had the good fortune to become acquainted in 1954 and his son, the current abbot, Inoue Sho\do\, have been a constant inspiration and encouragement. To both we are most grateful. We are also indebted to Washington University in St. Louis, our academic home, for its atmosphere congenial for research. The resources of the Olin’s East Asian Library were invaluable, as was the collegial support by the faculty of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. A Grimm Traveling Fellowship Award by the university for summer 1992 provided an opportunity for us to continue work in Japan. Then a generous stipend for research after retirement made it possible for us to complete the project. We are grateful for the many friends, relations, and casual acquaintances who encouraged our undertaking in one way or another—among them Kaneko Yuriko, who was always willing to share her understanding of Japanese literature with us, and our daughter, Audrey, for valuable suggestions on reading the final galleys. Our final stop was the State University of New York Press (SUNY), where we were able to work again with Judith Block, whom we fondly remember for having beautifully edited Sand and Pebbles (SUNY Press, 1985). We also wish to thank Nancy Ellegate, Michael Campochiaro, and the entire staff of SUNY Press for a job well done and for the happy experience of having worked with them. Acknowledgments xix The authors wish to acknowledge use of previously published material and to thank the following publishers and publications for its use: Dogen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation, by Carl Bielefeldt. Material from pp. 164–66. Published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988. “Sanctuary: Kamakura’s To\keiji Convent,” by Kaneko Sachiko and Robert E. Morrell . Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 10: 2–3 (1983), pp. 195–226, passim. “Mirror for Women: Muju\ Ichien’s Tsuma Kagami,” by Robert E. Morrell. Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 45, Number 1 (Spring 1980), pp. 45–75. “The Unity of the Three Creeds: A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the Fifteenth Century,” by John M. Rosenfield, in John W. Hall and Toyoda Takeshi, eds., Japan in the Muromachi Age. Material from page 223. Published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, 1977. Japan: A Short Cultural History, by G. B. Sansom. Material from pp. 52–53, ©1931, 1943, 1952 by G. B. Sansom. Published by Stanford University Press, Palo Alto. Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism, by Jacqueline I. Stone. Published by University of Hawaii Press, 1999, Honolulu, p. 56 (last line) to p. 57 (line 15); p. 57 (line 40) to p. 58 (line 4). ©1999 Kuroda Institute . The Lotus Sutra, translated by Burton Watson. Material from pp. xviii–xix. Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1993. The authors also wish to thank Zenjo\ and Sho\do\ Inoue, Abbots of the To\keiji, for permission to use images from the To\keiji Collection in this book. Acknowledgments xx ...

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