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Map 1.1. Provinces and highways of Heian Japan xii Map 1.2. Central Japan xiii Map 1.3. Heian-kyō in the mid-Heian age xiv Map 2.1. The Imperial Palace compound (dairi) 20 Map 2.2. The Greater Imperial Palace precincts (daidairi) 24 Map 10.1. Late twelfth-century sūtra burial sites 254 Map 10.2. Sūtra burial sites in Kyushu 255 Map 12.1. Owari Province 306 Map 13.1. Bōsō peninsula 330 Map 14.1. Hakata and vicinity 359 Map 15.1. Jōjin’s travels 386 Figure 2.1. Imperial genealogy of the seventh and eighth centuries 17 Figure 2.2. Imperial genealogy of the early and mid-Heian period 21 Figure 4.1. Sekkanke genealogy during Michinaga’s times 71 Figure 6.1. Detail from Murasaki Shikibu nikki ekotoba 149 Figure 7.1. Eleven-Headed Kannon, Hokkeji, Nara 154 Figure 7.2. Eleven-Headed Kannon, Ryōsenji, Nara 154 Figure 7.3. Eleven-Headed Kannon, Chōenji, Osaka Prefecture 155 Figure 7.4. Eleven-Headed Kannon, Jikō Enpukuji, Wakayama Prefecture 155 Figure 7.5. Eleven-Headed Kannon, Tadadera, Fukui Prefecture 156 Figure 7.6. Eleven-Headed Kannon, Futagami Kannondō, Fukui City 156 Figure 7.7. Eleven-Headed Kannon, Kōgenji, Shiga Prefecture 172 Figure 9.1. Imperial genealogy of the early Heian age 216 Figure 10.1. Diagram of sūtra burial 249 Figure 10.2. Sūtra container 249 Figure 10.3. Chinese porcelain sūtra container 257 Figure 10.4. Bronze plate incised with text of the Lotus Sūtra 263 Figure 11.1. Drought and government orders to plant dry fields 290 Maps, Figures, and taBles Figure 11.2. Fluctuations in the price of brown rice in the famine year of 762 290 Figure 13.1. Heike genealogy 336 Figure 15.1. Portrait of Jōjin 385 Figure 15.2. Genealogy of Jōjin’s family 387 Figure 15.3. Genealogy of key individuals associated with Jōjin 399 Table 3.1. Fujiwara no Tadahira’s career 37 Table 8.1. Kūkai’s interpretive strategy 199 Table 8.2. Correspondence between the five Heart Sūtra sections 203 Table 9.1. Jōgakuji 223 Table 9.2. Betsuin 229 Table 9.3. Matsuji 234 Table 11.1. The incidence of famine in Japan by century, 600–1900 276 Table 11.2. Climatological trends for selected centuries 280 Table 11.3. Famine years, extent and causes, 670–1100 281 Table 14.1. Changes in military administration in Kyushu 362 Table 14.2. The raid of 869 and its aftermath 367 Table 14.3. The events of the 890s 369 Table 14.4. The Toi Invasion and its aftermath 375 Table 14.5. Foreign contacts during the tenure of Fujiwara no Korenori 379 viii | List of Maps, Figures, and Tables ...

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