3. Court and Provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents v
3. maps, figures, and tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. 1. Between and Beyond Centers and Peripheries 1
6. part I: Locating Political Centers and Peripheries
7. 21 From Female Sovereign to Mother of the Nation: Women and Government in the Heian Period 15
8. 3. Court and Provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira 35
9. 41 Kugyō and Zuryō: Center and Periphery in the Era of Fujiwara no Michinaga 66
10. part II: Shifting Categories in Literature and the Arts
11. 5. The Way of the Literati: Chinese Learning and Literary Practice in Mid-Heian Japan 105
12. 6. Terrains of Text in Mid-Heian Court Culture 129
13. 7. The Buddhist Transformation of Japan in the Ninth Century: The Case of Eleven-Headed Kannon 153
14. part III: Establishing New Religious Spheres
15. 8. Scholasticism, Exegesis, and Ritual Practice: On Renovation in the History of Buddhist Writing in the Early Heian Period 179
16. 9. Institutional Diversity and Religious Integration: The Establishment of Temple Networks in the Heian Age 212
17. 10. The Archeology of Anxiety: An Underground History of Heian Religion 245
18. part IV: Negotiating Domestic Peripheries
19. 11. Famine, Climate, and Farming in Japan, 670 – 1100 275
20. 12. Life of Commoners in the Provinces: The Owari no gebumi of 988 305
21. 13. Lordship Interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the Limited Horizons of Warrior Ambition 329
22. part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian World
23. 14. Cross-border Traffic on the Kyushu Coast, 794 – 1086 357
24. 15. Jōjin’s Travels from Center to Center (with Some Periphery in between) 384
25. References 415
26. Glossary-index 439
27. Contributors 449