List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Author's Notes -- Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter One Creating Images of Japanese Buddhism and Culture -- Japanese Buddhism and Culture at the World's Parliament of Religions -- Okakura Kakuzo's English Writings and Cultural Nationalism -- Representations of Japan and Japanese Buddhism during World War II -- Suzuki Daisetsu and his Legacy -- Suzuki Daisetsu in the Shin Buddhist context -- Shin Buddhism from the Viewpoint of the Kyoto School -- Chapter Two Jodo Shinshu and Literature -- Everyday Life in a Jodo Shinshu Temple: Niwa Fumio's The Buddha Tree -- Jodo Shinshu in the Narrative Writing of Natsume Soseki -- A young poetess and Jodo Shinshu: Kaneko Misuzu -- Itsuki Hiroyuki: A Best-Selling Writer and Jodo Shinshu -- Literary Refl ections on Personal Experiences within Jodo Shinshu -- Harold H. Stewart's By the Old Walls of Kyoto -- The Theme of Death from the Perspective of Jodo Shinshu: Aoki Shinmon's Coffi nman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician -- Chapter Three Pure Land Buddhism and Creative Arts -- Aesthetics and Religion in Yanagi Muneyoshi -- Yanagi and Cultural Nationalism -- The Woodblock Artist Munakata Shiko and Tariki -- Representations of the Pure Land in Contemporary Visual Arts -- Recent Trends in Contemporary Japanese Visual Arts: Mori Mariko's Pure Land -- Chapter Four Pure Land Buddhism and the Tea Ceremony -- Images of Chanoyu -- Pure Land Buddhism in the Tradition of Chanoyu -- A Connection between the Honganji-ha and Chanoyu: the Yabunouchi School of Tea -- Traditional Culture in a Jodo Shinshu Temple: Chanoyu at an Otani-ha Temple -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index.