Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Maps -- 1.1 Provinces and highways of Heian Japan -- 1.2 Central Japan -- 1.3 Heian-kyo in the mid-Heian age -- 2.1 The Impeerial Palace compound (dairi) -- 2.2 The Greater Imperial Palace precincts (daidairi) -- 10.1 Late twelfth-century sutra burial sites -- 10.2 Sutra burial sites in Kyushu -- 12.1 Owari Province -- 13.1 Boso peninsula -- 14.1 Hakata and vicinity -- 15.1 Jojin's travels -- Figures -- 2.1 Imperial genealogy of the seventh and eight centuries -- 2.2 Imperial genealogy of the early and mid-Heian period -- 4.1 Sekkanke genealogy during Michinaga's times -- 6.1 Detail from Murasaki Shikibu nikki ekotoba -- 7.1 Eleven-Headed Kanon, Hokkeji, Nara -- 7.2 Eleven-Headed Kanon, Ryosenji, Nara -- 7.3 Eleven-Headed Kannon, Choenji, Osaka Prefecture -- 7.4 Eleven-Headed Kannon, Jiko Enpukuji, Wakayama Prefecture -- 7.5 Eleven-Headed Kannon, Tadadera, Fukui Prefecture -- 7.6 Eleven-Headed Kanon, Futagami Kannondo, Fukai City -- 7.7 Eleven-Headed Kannon, Kogenji, Shiga Prefecture -- 9.1 Imperial Genealogy of the early Heian age -- 10.1 Diagram of sutra burial -- 10.2 Sutra container -- 10.3 Chinese porcelain sutra container -- 10.4 Bronze plate incised with text of the Lotus Sutra -- 11.1 Drought and government orders to plant dry fields -- 11.2 Fluctations in the price of brown rice in the famine year of 762 -- 13.1 Heike genealogy -- 15.1 Portrait of Jojin -- 15.2 Genealogy of Jojin's family -- 15.3 Genealogy of key individuals associated with Jojin -- Tables -- 3.1 Fujiwara no Tadahira's career -- 8.1 Kukai's interprertive strategy -- 8.2 Correspondence between the five Heart Sutra sections -- 9.1 Jogakuji -- 9.2 Betsuin -- 9.3 Matsuji -- 11.1 The incidence of famine in Japan by century, 600-1900 -- 11.2 Climatological trends for selected centuries.

11.3 Famine years, extent and causes, 670-1100 -- 14.1 Changes in military administration in Kyushu -- 14.2 The raid of 869 and its aftermath -- 14.3 The Events of the 890s -- 14.4 The Toi Invasion and its aftermath -- 14.5 Foreign contacts during the tenure of Fujiwara no Korenori -- Acknowledgments -- Terminology and Translations -- 1. Between and Beyond Centers and Peripheries -- Part l. Locating Political Centers and Peripheries -- 2. From Female Sovereign to Mother of the Nation: Women and Government in the Heian Period -- 3. Court and Provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira -- 4. Kugyo and Zuryo: Center and Periphery in the Era of Fujiwara no Michinaga -- Part ll. Shifting Categories in Literature and the Arts -- 5. The Way of the Literati: Chinese Learning and Literary Practice in Mid-Heian Japan -- 6. Terrains of Text in Mid-Heian Court Culture -- 7. The Buddhist Transformation of Japan in the Ninth Century: The Case of Eleven-Headed Kannon -- Part lll. Establishing New Religious Spheres -- 8. Scholasticism, Exegesis, and Ritual Practice: On Renovation in the History of Buddhist Writing in the Early Heian Period -- 9. Institutional Diversity and Religious Integration: The Establishment of Temple Networks in the Heian Age -- 10. The Archeology of Anxiety: An Underground History of Heian Religion -- Part lV. Negotiating Domestic Peripheries -- 11. Famine, Climate, and Farming in Japan, 670-1100 -- 12. Life of Commoners in the Provinces: The Owari no gebumi 988 -- 13. Lordship Interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the Limited Horizons of Warrior Ambition -- Part V. Placing Heian Japan in the Asian World -- 14. Cross-border Traffic on the Kyushu Coast, 794-1086 -- 15. Jojin's Travels from Center to Center (with Some Periphery in between) -- References -- Contributors -- Glossary-Index.