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Abe Masao, 243 abortion, 134–135 abuse of: children, 133; elderly parents , 138–139; parents, 137–138; wives, 127–131 academic irregularities, 124–126 address terms, 48 aesthetic sensibility: aversion to redundancy, 248–249; immediacy, 246 ai. See love aisatsu, 51–53; violation of, 105–106 aizuchi, 24–25, 53–54 Allison, Anne, 271 Alzheimer’s patients, 109–110; family caregiving, 111–113 amae, amaeru, amayakasu. See dependency amakudari, 122 Amaterasu, 233, 240, 252 anomaly, 99; boundary breakdown, 103–107 apology, 11, 211–212. See also dogeza Appadurai, Arjun, 262 appearance, 57–59 Armstrong. See Judaic monotheism asceticism, 194; employee training, 195 Athens, Lonnie, xvii, 179 Augustine, 177 authority, 7; without power, 113 Bachnik, Jane, 38 Back, 201–203 Barnlund, Dean, 75, 216 Bashò, Matsuo, 248 Bayley, 123 Befu, Harumi, 264, 276 Beginning of Heaven and Earth, 245 Benedict, Ruth, 99n1, 259, 260, 270, 276, 278n11 Berque, Augustin, 3, 23, 27, 261, 277 binary, 14 birthrate, 166 Blacker, Carmen, 194 body: asceticism, 194–195; “back,” 201–203; “bodymind,” 185–186; bowing, 199–200; discipline, 191–192, 200–201; etiquette, 195–197; kokoro, hara, ki, seishin, mi, koshi, 186–187; as shrine, 189–191; sitting, 197–199; Zen body, 192–193 bonding: bodily and emotional, 68; father-daughter, 83–85; homosexuality , 71–72; mother-child, 72–80; sexual, 69–72 bowing, 199–200 brain death, 188, 189 Brandon, 57n9, 180 Brightman, Robert, 1 Brown, Sidney Devere, 268n7 Buddhism: fusion with Shintò, 239–243; Kûkai, 191–192, 251; Index soku logic, 242–243, 253; wives of unmarried priests, 114–115. See also Dògen, Zen bullying, 140–145, 165, 206 Burakumin, 271 Campbell, 170, 171 caregivers, 167–168 Carver, 272 ceremonies, importance of, 60–62 “chaosmos,” 243–244, 253 chance, 249 Chikamatsu, 218–219, 221 children: abuse, 132–134; murdersuicide , 134, 136; rebellion, 137–138. See also schools Christopher, St., 241–243 Chrysanthemum and the Sword. See Benedict Chûshingura, 196 Christianity, 244–246 clothing, 58–59 Cohen, x Conger, Jane, 127n10 Conroy, et al., 7 contingency, 9; triple mode of, 14–15 Cook, Haruko, 94 Copeland, Rebecca, 80–81 corruption, 119 cosmological map, 226 cosmos vs. chaos, 225 cover-up: academic, 124–126; police, 123–124 Creighton, 54 crown prince, 86 cultural boundary: false dichotomy between universalism and uniqueness, 258; partial difference , 257–258; pragmatic choice, 256–257; resonance, 259 culture, definition of, xix Curtis, Gerald, 120 cyber communication, xiv–xv, 203 cycles of decay and renewal, 252 Dalby, Liza, 59 Dale, Peter, 258, 271, 276, 277–278, 279; as an Orientalist, 278 Dan, Ikuma, 180 Dancing Religion, 190 Dann, 187 D’Andrade, Roy, xviii, 271 dangò (behind-the-door agreement), 118–119, 213 Davis, 271 dependency, 19–20. See also amae, amaeru, amayakasu; powerdependency deterritorialized nationalism, 264 Descartes, 177, 189 Diana, Princess, 91 distance and civility, 39 diversification and generalization, 267–270 divorce, cultural variation of: coresidential divorce, postmortem divorce, 131–132 Dògen, 191, 193 dogeza, 199–200 Doi, Takeo, 19, 86, 270 Dombeck, xvi, xvii double hierarchy, 17 Ehime Maru tragedy, 90 eldercare, 166–176; Gold Plan, 170; rapid graying, 166. See homehelpers Eliot, 240 email. See cyber communication empathy, 205–208 emperor, 50–51; gozen-kaigi, 113; Shòwa, 27n11, 108, 113–114, 275 enka, 85, 202 Ernst, Earle, 248 esteem, 64–65 etiquette, 54–57 Ewing, Katherine, 4 false dichotomy of universalism and particularism, 256, 259 Forty-seven Loyal Samurai, 196 Fowler, Edward, 247–248 Fujimura Shin’ichi, 261n3 Fujiwara Teika, 191 fushòji, 125, 126 futoku, 11 298 INDEX [18.118.140.108] Project MUSE (2024-04-23 22:26 GMT) Geertz, Clifford, 4 generalization as epistemological necessity, 267–269 Genesis, 14 Ghosn, Carlos, 164 ghost marriage, 244 giri and ninjò, 218–223 globalization and localism, 262–265 Goffman, 57, 99 Goodman, 266, 271 guilt, feeling of, 218 haiku, 248–249 hair, significance of, 263 Haley, John, 38, 93, 114, 146, 275 hara, 187, 188 Hardacre, 244n1 Harootunian, Harry, 279–280; and Sakai, 278n11 Hashimoto, Akiko, 166 Heart Sutra, 242 Hendry, Joy, 63, 66, 163n27 Henshall, 85 Hidden Christians, 244–246 Hideyoshi, 28–29 hinomaru, 263 Hobbsbaum and Ranger, 266n6 home-helpers, 168–175; status elevation , 171–175 homogeneity, 265–271 Honji Suijaku, 240 honne, 91 honnin, 204–205, 210, 211 honorific language, 45–51, 63 Hooper, Antony, 5 hospitality: diplomatic, 56–57; official, 120–123; professional, 55 hotoke, 239–242 Ichikawa, 187 Ide, 52 identity surrogacy, 204–205 iemoto, 250–252 igan-menseki, 19 ijime. See bullying Ikawa-Smith, 261 Ikegami, 196 Ikuma...

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