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Account of the Life of Master Takuan (Takuan dai-oshō gyōjō), xi Agyo, 63–64, 152n. 17 Aisu Ikōsai Hisatada (1452–1538), 18 Akiba (clan), 58, 150n. 3 Akiba Hanbei (n.d.), 150n. 7; Takuan chides in letter, 112–113; Takuan describes conditions in exile to, 86–87 Akiba Tsunanori (1539–1606), 59–60, 68–69, 112 angya (Zen pilgrimage), 62 armed conflict, changes in, 20–23. See also Suzuki Masaya art of the sword (heihō), 138n. 3 Art of the Sword (Heihō kadensho), 136nn. 91–92; Takuan’s influence on, 17–18, 27–31, 136n. 118 “attaching” the mind (kokoro o tomeru), 2, 5, 8–9, 44; discussed in Art of the Sword, 27–28 Baize, 57, 149nn. 77–78 Bankei Yōtaku (1622–1693): instructions on lance, 126n. 3 beggars, Takuan’s descriptions of, 111, 166n. 211 biased (hen), and unbiased (shō) mind, 3, 40–41 Biographical Record of the Master of Tōkaiji (Tōkai oshō kinenroku), xi Biyenlu. See Blue Cliff Record blinking: and unmoving mind, 29 Blue Cliff Record (Biyenlu), 14, 19, 63, 64, 77, 84, 132n. 58, 132n. 61, 138n. 4, 141nn. 19–20, 145n. 45, 148n. 75, 152n. 18, 156n. 68, 161n. 133, 167n. 220. See also Ninety Verses on the Blue Cliff Record bugei ryūha. See schools of swordsmanship Bunsei Dōjin (d. 1603), 65 cat: metaphor of in writings of Takuan and Munenori, 7, 28, 41, 44, 45 Cheng brothers (Cheng Hao, 1032–1085, and Cheng Yi, 1033–1107), 7, 144n. 35 Chu, King of, 10 Confucianism, 4, 5, 26, 39, 73, 128n. 23, 140n. 16 Dairin Sōtō (n.d.), 66, 71 Daitō Kokushi. See Shūhō Myōchō Daitokuji, xi, 97; abbacy at, 70; koan system at, 63–64; northern and southern branches, 70, 155n. 46; restoration of imperial abbacy at, 100–102; as rinka temple, 61–62; Takuan forbids memorial tablet at, 117; Takuan’s jaundiced views of Zen at, 106, 109; and tea, 95; temple ranks at, 154n. 42; tensions with bakufu, 75. See also Purple Robe incident “Deeds of Valor” (komyō), 21, 133n. 71 Dōi Toshikatsu (1573–1644), 82, 92, 163n. 158 Index 178 Index dream: theme of in Takuan’s teaching, 116–117 Ekei of Ankokuji (d. 1600), 76 emptiness: Attendant Emptiness, 111; and the non-attached mind, 3–4, 6–7; Takuan’s views on compared with Awakening of Faith, 143n. 29 Feng Hu, 10 fifty-two stages (of the bodhisattva’s path), 33, 138n. 1 final injunctions (yuikai). See Takuan Sōhō: final injunctions firearms: introduction of in Japanese warfare, 20–22, 133n. 70 First Zen Institute of America, xi, 130n. 32 “floodlike breath,” 4, 7, 144n. 35 “forgetting the mind,” 8 Four Books (sishu), 128n. 12 fudōchi. See immovable wisdom Fudō Myōō, 5, 34, 139n. 8, 139n. 10 Gateless Gate (Wumen guan), 63, 77, 142n. 23, 142n. 25, 147n. 58, 152n. 22, 222n. 167 go, in early modern Zen temples, 151n. 11 Gomizuno’o (1596–1680), 78, 84, 86, 91, 99; urges Takuan to designate successor , 108–109, 165n. 201 Gozan, 60–61, 76–78, 80, 150n. 9. See also rinka and sōrin Gudō Tōshoku (1579–1661), 91, 165n. 201 Gyokushitsu Sōhaku (1572–1641), 62, 79, 82, 83, 84–85, 86, 89, 90, 92–93, 156n. 73, 160n. 103, 161n. 121 Hakeda, Yoshito S., ix, xi, xiii, 125n. 4, 143n. 29 Harper, Donald, 150n. 78 Harusame-an, 86 hatto. See temple decrees heihō. See art of the sword Heihō kadensho. See Art of the Sword Hōnen (1133–1212), 103, 163n. 182 Hori Naoyori (1577–1639), 83, 90, 91, 126n. 2 Hosokawa keki, 158n. 88; notes Takuan’s advice on grieving, 96; popular support for Takuan in Purple Robe incident cited in, 85 Hosokawa Mitsunao (1619–1649), 105, 111 Hosokawa Tadaoki (1564–1645), 70–71, 105, 160n. 103 Hosokawa Tadatoshi (1586–1641), 71, 85, 95, 96, 105 Hotta Masamori (1606–1651), 14, 93, 96, 103, 115, 117, 163n. 158, 164n. 186 Hundred Verses on the Art of the Sword (Heihō hyakushū), 19, 133n. 65 Ikkō (True Pure Land) school: monastic armies of, 75 Ikkyū Sōjun (1394–1481), xi, 147n. 55; quoted on Daitokuji koan curriculum, 63–64; refusal to designate successor, 109; views on inka, 109 illness, or disease of mind, 27–28 Imakita Kōsen (1816–1892), 12, 129n. 30 immovable wisdom (fudōchi), 4–5 imperial abbacy: at Daitokuji, 69, 76–77, 79, 84, 101, 154n. 42 inka: history of at...

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