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Jeweled Mirror of Manners for Women
(Onna fūzoku tamakagami), 277
Jien. See 
My Humble Thoughts
Jikkunshō
. See 
Ten Teachings
Jingū (empress), 184
Jinmu (emperor), 107, 
118
, 120, 268
Jinnō shōtōki
. See 
A Chronicle of Gods and 
Sovereigns
Jitō (empress), 125–26
Jōkyū Disturbance (1221): and 
The China 
Mirror
, 180; 
The Clear Mirror
on, 
260–61; 
The Mirror of the East
on, 211, 
215–16; 
The Mirror of the Watchman in 
the Fields
on, 231; and 
My Humble 
Thoughts
, 187; 
The Tale of the Heike
on, 
264; tales about, 86n, 103, 136; 
The 
Water Mirror
on, 190
Jōkyūki
(A Record of the Jōkyū Years), 
86n, 103, 136
kagamimono
genre, 2
Kairin, 227
Kakaishō
(Yotsutsuji Yoshinari), 10n

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Index
kalpas
. 
See
time as endless cycle
Kamakura 
bakufu
: administration of, 
205–6; and Chinese history as source 
of prestige, 140; and Chinese history 
readership, 144, 168, 181, 190; and 
context for 
The China Mirror
, 141, 144, 
156, 196; and decline narratives, 210; 
establishment of, 2, 23, 30, 85, 110–11, 
212, 222–23; and exile, 176–77n; fall of 
(1333), 239, 259; and 
kanbun
/
wabun
blending, 114; and language selection, 
206–7n; legitimization of, 223, 224–25; 
The Mirror of the East
on, 204–7; and 
Mongol invasions, 222, 223–24, 225; 
and multiple strands of authority, 220; 
and religion, 209–10, 212n, 218–19; 
relocation to capital, 23; and Shimot-
suki Disturbance, 224; and 
The Tale of 
Genji
, 201n; and 
Ten Teachings
, 158, 
159; threats to, 223–25. 
Se
e a
lso
Jōkyū 
Disturbance
Kamakura Code of Governance
(Goseibai 
shikimoku), 205, 206n
Kamens, Edward, 45
Kameyama (retired emperor), 261
Kamo no Chōmei, 86–87, 91
kanbun
: in 
The China Mirror
, 173, 
190–94, 196; in court/official histories, 
5; defined, 5n; marker model on, 
27–28; in 
The Masakado Chronicle
, 6; 
in 
The Mirror of the East
, 206–7; in 
The Mirror of the Gods
, 269–70; 
received narrative on, 14; and tales vs. 
chronicles, 8. Se
e a
lso 
kanbun
/
wabun
blending in 
The Water Mirror
; 
language selection
kanbun
/
wabun
blending in 
The Water 
Mirror
, 88, 
118
; and authority, 114, 
127–35; and biography format, 116–17, 
118
, 
120–21; and 
The China Mirror
, 173, 190; 
Kamakura 
bakufu
co-optation of 
Mirror
genre, 114; and local outlook, 121–27; 
and 
The Mirror of the Gods
, 280–81
Kaneko Dairoku, 92n
Kanmu (emperor), 108
Kannō Disturbance (1350–52), 239, 274n
Kanō Shigefumi, 17–18, 68n
Kara kagami
. See 
The China Mirror
Kara monogatari
(China Tales) (Shig-
enori, 1135–87), 54–58, 83, 151
karma: in 
The Great Mirror
, 46, 103, 222; 
historiographical implications of, 
103–4; Kyōkai on, 25; in 
The Mirror of 
the East
, 219; in 
The New Mirror
, 
65–66, 72, 73, 78, 83, 103, 104, 222
Katō Shizuko, 36–37
Kawakita Noboru, 17n, 102n
Kawashima, Terry, 100, 220n, 254, 260n, 
263–64
Kazan (emperor), 227, 228
Keikō (empress), 280n
Kenmu Restoration (1333–36), 239, 
262–63, 265–66
Kenshi, 42, 73
Kibi (minister), 124
Kibi no Otodo nittō emaki
(An Illustrated 
Scroll of Minister Kibi’s Trip to 
China), 195, 275
kidentai
format, 13n, 107n
Kidō Saizō, 255n, 258n
Kiley, Corneliu
s J
., 206n
Kinski, Michael, 276n
Kirei mondō
(Tadachika), 92n
Kiso Yoshinaka, 217
Kitabatake Chikafusa. See 
A Chronicle of 
Gods and Sovereigns
Kitamura Masayuki, 250n
Kitano Shrine, 248–49
Kōen. See 
Abbreviated Records of the 
Land of the Rising Sun
Koizumi Hiroshi, 79n
Kōken (empress), 112
Kōkō (emperor), 246
Kokon chomonjū
(Notable Tales Old and 
New) (Narisue), 115, 116, 138, 142, 
166–68, 195
Kokubota Kaaki, 127n
Komine Kazuaki, 16n, 17n, 21n, 39n, 43, 
48, 49n, 55, 56n, 94n, 104, 105n, 130, 132n
Kondō Shigekazu, 276n

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Kong Anguo, 172
Kō no Moronao, 269n
Konparu Gonnokami, 282
Konparu Zenchiku, 136
Korean literary traditions, 11–12n
Kornicki, Peter, 277, 283n
Koselleck, Reinhart, 27, 72, 73, 107, 109n, 
131, 132, 160n
Kubota Jun, 55, 195n
Kūkai, 12, 13, 112
kundoku
, 114–15, 193n, 194
Kyōgoku Tamekane, 229, 230, 233
Kyōkai, 25
Kyoto: and Genpei War, 1–2, 86–87; 
The 
Great Mirror
on, 41; and 
Mirror
settings, 23, 248–49, 254, 259, 267, 268
language selection, 4; in 
The China Mirror
, 
173, 190–94, 
192
, 196; in 
The Clear 
Mirror
, 254n, 255, 
256
, 260; and 
eyewitness, 27, 82, 126, 129–31, 132; in 
Gods and Sovereigns
, 244, 254n; in 
The 
Great Mirror
, 47–49, 74, 116n; and local 
outlook, 126–27; marker model, 27–28; 
in 
The Mirror of the East
, 206–7, 254n; in 
The Mirror of the Gods
, 254n, 255, 
257
, 
269–70, 280–81; in 
The Mirror of the 
Watchman in the Fields
, 227, 232–33, 
254n; in 
My Humble Thoughts
, 115–16, 
126n, 184; in 
The New Mirror
, 74, 82; 
overview, 27, 280–81; in 
Plums and Pines
, 
248, 254n; register distinctions, 114–16; 
and setting, 132. Se
e a
lso 
kanbun
/
wabun
blending in 
The Water Mirror
Laozi, 150
Laws of Attack
(Li), 172
Liqiu deng Leyou yuan
(Upon Ascending 
to Leyou Park on the First Day of 
Autumn) (Bai Juyi), 179
Li Shenzhi, 175n
Liu Yu, 177–78
Liu Yuan-ju, 151n
Lotus Sutra
, 39, 43, 49n
Lü (Chinese empress), 150, 151, 162
Lurie, David, 114–15
Makura no sōshi
, 133–34
mappō
. 
See
Buddhist final age beliefs
Marra, Michele, 35n, 75n, 230n, 247n
The Masakado Chronicle
(Shōmonki), 6, 
15
Masakado uprising, 5–6, 15, 231
Masukagami
. See 
The Clear Mirror
Matsubara Shigeru, 136n
Matsumoto Shinpachirō, 59n, 107n, 111
Matsumura Hiroji, 9
Matsumura Takeo, 89n
Matsuranomiya monogatari
(The Tale of 
Matsura) (Fujiwara no Teika), 141, 282
McCullough, Helen, 36, 39n, 258n
McCullough, William, 215n
Miller, Roy Andrew, 114n
Minamoto no Arifusa, 197, 227. Se
e a
lso 
The Mirror of the Watchman in the 
Fields
Minamoto no Arihito, 62
Minamoto no Mitsuyuki, 140
Minamoto no Nakatsuna, 213
Minamoto no Rinshi, 60
Minamoto no Sanetomo, 151n, 218, 225n
Minamoto no Tametomo, 54
Minamoto no Tōru, 259
Minamoto no Tsubenobu, 162
Minamoto no Yorimasa, 212
Minamoto no Yoritomo, 141, 212, 214, 
217, 219, 223
Minamoto no Yoshitsune, 214n
Minamoto no Yukiie, 217–18
Ming (Chinese emperor), 153
Minister of War Nobunori’s Logbook
(Heihanki), 52–54, 58, 83
A Minister’s Logbook
(Sankaiki) (Tada-
chika), 89–91, 113, 134, 139–40
Mirror for Women
(Tsuma kagami) 
(Mujū Ichien), 281, 282n
Mirror
genre: Chinese-Japanese synthesis 
in, 10–11; chronological gap in, 243, 
254–55, 273; commonalities among, 4, 
10, 21n, 200–203; early modern, 
275–78; elision of social disorder in, 
29, 30, 67–68, 72n, 109, 110; end of, 

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Index
Mirror
genre (
continued
)
266–67, 272–74; flexibility of, 82, 83; 
gap in, 243, 254–55; and 
Gods and 
Sovereigns
, 245–46; 
The Great Mirror
as 
progenitor of, 10, 17n, 35, 36; as 
historical narrative, 21–22; Kamakura 
bakufu
co-optation of, 114; 
kidentai
format in, 13n; limited status of, 
241–42; longevity of, 283–84; 
The New 
Mirror
as examplar of, 51–52; and 
post-Kamakura 
bakufu
historiography, 
241; readership of, 201, 202; received 
narrative on, 16, 17n; shared concerns 
of, 4; and tales, 9; texts belonging to, 
20–21
mirror metaphor, 10; in 
The China 
Mirror
, 181, 188–90, 281; and Chinese 
literary influence, 11–13, 181; and 
cosmological principles, 12, 13, 181, 
207–8; in early modern 
Mirrors
, 276; 
Kūkai on, 12, 13; in 
The Mirror of the 
East
, 207–8, 281; in 
The Mirror of the 
Watchman in the Fields
, 233–35; 
overview, 281–83
The Mirror of the East
(Azuma kagami): 
absence of preface in, 208–10, 221–22; 
Anglophone scholarship on, 18; 
authorship of, 200, 203–4; Buddhist 
final age beliefs in, 210, 210–11n, 219; 
and 
The China Mirror
, 143n, 144, 202, 
221, 222; on Chinese history, 151n; 
commonalities with 
Mirror
genre, 21n, 
202–3; continuities with past in, 
225–26; dating of, 4, 203–4n; early 
modern readership of, 280n; on 
Genpei War, 211, 212–15; and historical 
tales, 21n; on Hōji Disturbance, 210, 
211, 217; institutional orientation of, 
204–7, 222, 223, 260, 269; on Jōkyū 
Disturbance, 211, 215–16; and 
Kamakura 
bakufu
legitimization, 223, 
224–25; language selection in, 206–7, 
254n; mirror metaphor in, 207–8, 281; 
and 
The Mirror of the Gods
, 268; 
multiple strands of authority in, 
219–20, 226; and ordering the past, 29; 
and received narrative, 16, 18, 19; 
religion in, 209–10; text details, 197; 
unstated cosmological principles in, 
208, 209, 219, 226, 236–37, 250, 273; on 
Wada Rebellion, 218; and