目次
Between and beyond centers and peripheries / Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens -- Part I. Locating political centers and peripheries -- From female sovereign to mother of the nation : women and government in the Heian period / Fukutō Sanae with Takeshi Watanabe -- Court and provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira / Joan R. Piggott -- Kugyō and Zuryō : center and periphery in the era of Fujiwara no Michinaga / G. Cameron Hurst III - Part II. Shifting categories in literature and the arts -- The way of the literati : Chinese learning and literary practice in mid-Heian Japan / Ivo Smits -- Terrains of text in mid-Heian court culture / Edward Kamens -- The Buddhist transformation of Japan in the ninth century : the case of Eleven-Headed Kannon / Samuel C. Morse -- Part III. Establishing new religious spheres -- Scholasticism, exegesis, and ritual practice : on renovation in the history of Buddhist writing in the early Heian period / Ryūichi Abé -- Institutional diversity and religious integration : the establishment of temple networks in the Heian age / Mikael Adolphson -- The archeology of anxiety : an underground history of Heian religion / D. Max Moerman -- Part IV. Negotiating domestic peripheries -- Famine, climate, and farming in Japan, 670-1100 / William Wayne Farris -- Life of commoners in the provinces : the Owari no gebumi of 988 / Charlotte von Verschuer -- Lordship interdicted : Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition / Karl Friday -- Part V. Placing Heian Japan in the Asian world -- Cross-border traffic on the Kyushu coast, 794-1086 / Bruce L. Batten
-- Jōjin's travels from center to center (with some periphery in between) / Robert Borgen
