Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries

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List of Maps, Figures, and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix Terminology and Translations xi 1 Between and Beyond Centers and Peripheries 1 Mikael adolpHson and edward kaMens Part I. Locating Political Centers and Peripheries 2 From Female Sovereign to Mother of the Nation: Women and Government in the Heian Period 15 Fukutō sanae witH takesHi watanaBe 3 Court and Provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira 35 Joan r. piggott 4 Kugyō and Zuryō: Center and Periphery in the Era of Fujiwara no Michinaga 66 g. CaMeron Hurst iii Part II. Shifting Categories in Literature and the Arts 5 The Way of the Literati: Chinese Learning and Literary Practice in Mid-Heian Japan 105 ivo sMits 6 Terrains of Text in Mid-Heian Court Culture 129 edward kaMens 7 The Buddhist Transformation of Japan in the Ninth Century: The Case of Eleven-Headed Kannon 153 saMuel C. Morse Part III. Establishing New Religious Spheres 8 Scholasticism, Exegesis, and Ritual Practice: On Renovation in the History of Buddhist Writing in the Early Heian Period 179 ryūiCHi aBé 9 Institutional Diversity and Religious Integration: The Establishment of Temple Networks in the Heian Age 212 Mikael adolpHson Contents 10 The Archeology of Anxiety: An Underground History of Heian Religion 245 d. Max MoerMan Part IV. Negotiating Domestic Peripheries 11 Famine, Climate, and Farming in Japan, 670–1100 275 williaM wayne Farris 12 Life of Commoners in the Provinces: The Owari no gebumi of 988 305 CHarlotte von versCHuer 13 Lordship Interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the Limited Horizons of Warrior Ambition 329 karl Friday Part V. Placing Heian Japan in the Asian World 14 Cross-border Traffic on the Kyushu Coast, 794–1086 357 BruCe l. Batten 15 Jōjin’s Travels from Center to Center (with Some Periphery in between) 384 roBert Borgen References 415 Contributors 439 Glossary-Index 441 vi | Contents ...