Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction Remembering the Samurai in Medieval and Early Modern Japan 1
5. Chapter 1 Memento Mori: Mōri Warriors, Manase Physicians, and the New Medico-Cultural Nexus of the Late Sixteenth Century 15
6. Chapter 2 Hideyoshi and Okuni’s Kabuki Memories Preserved in a Screen Painting 52
7. Chapter 3 Finding Origins and Meaning in the Warring States 91
8. Chapter 4 Plotting War during the Great Peace The Uses of Warfare in Late Edo Tales of the Strange 114
9. Chapter 5 Ghosts along the Road War Memory and Landscape in Medieval Narratives 134
10. Chapter 6 Narrated and Danced Memory of War and Resignation: The Role of Musical Delivery 162
11. Chapter 7 Performing Trauma and Lament Gendered Scenes of Samurai Anguish on the Eighteenth-Century Kabuki Stage 186
12. Chapter 8 In Memorandum Dragonflies and Drums 213
13. Chapter 9 Representing Memory in the Warrior Plays 235
14. Contributors 251
15. Index 255