Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries

Contributors

contRibutoRs Ryūichi Abé. Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Author of Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan and The Weaving of Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse. Mikael Adolphson. Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. Author of The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan. Bruce Batten. Professor of Japanese History. Obirin University. Author of To the Ends of Japan: Premodern Frontiers, Boundaries, and Interactions. Robert Borgen. Professor of Japanese Literature and History, University of California, Davis. Author of Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court. Co-editor of The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Memory of Robert Bower. Wayne Farris. Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Professor of Traditional Japanese Culture, University of Hawai‘i. Author of Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645–900, Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan’s Military, 500–1300, and Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan. Karl Friday. Professor of Japanese History, Department of History, University of Georgia. Author of Hired Swords: The Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan, Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture, and Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan. G. Cameron Hurst III. Professor of Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Author of Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics of Late Heian Japan, 1086–1185 and The Armed Martial Arts of Japan. Co-editor of Samurai Painters. Edward Kamens. Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies and Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University. Author of Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry, The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu, and The Three Jewels: A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori’s Sanboe. Editor of Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji. Stacie Matsumoto. Ph.D. candidate in Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; and Institute Coordinator, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. D. Max Moerman. Assistant Professor of Japanese Culture, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College. Author of Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. Samuel Morse. Professor, Department of Fine Arts and Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College. Co-author of Object as Insight: Japanese Buddhist Art and Ritual. Author of Shaped with Passion: The Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Collection of Modern Japa- 450 | Contributors nese Ceramics. Editor of Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center. Joan Piggott. Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History, Department of History, University of Southern California. Author of The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. Editor of Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Co-editor of Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan. Fukutō Sanae. Professor, Japanese History, Saitama Gakuen Daigaku. Author of numerous works in Japanese, including Heian ōchō shakai no jendā, Kegare no bunka shi, and Heian chō no onna to otoko. Ivo Smits. Lecturer in Japanese, Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden University. Author of The Pursuit of Loneliness: Chinese and Japanese Nature Poetry in Medieval Japan. Co-editor of Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory and Bridging the Divide : 1600–2000, 400 Years, The Netherlands-Japan. Charlotte von Verschuer. Professor, Japanese History, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne. Author of Les relations officielles du Japon avec la Chine aux VIIIe-IXe siècles, Le commerce extérieur du Japon, des origines au XVIe siècle, and Le riz dans la culture de Heian, mythe et réalité. Co-editor of Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan Online. Production Notes for Adolphson, Kamens, and Matsumoto heian japan, centeRs and peRipheRies Cover and interior designed by April Leidig-Higgins in WarnockPro Composition by Copperline Book Services, Inc. Printing and binding by Edwards Brothers, Inc. Printed on 60# Finch Opaque, 500 ppi ...