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The Water 
Mirror
, 137
The Mirror of the Gods
(Shinmeikyō or 
Shinmei kagami): absence of preface 
in, 267; authorship of, 267; common-
alities with 
Mirror
genre, 203; content 
in, 268; dating of, 4, 266–67; and 
divided court, 240; institutional 
orientation of, 207, 269; on Jōkyū 
Disturbance, 261n; language selection 
in, 254n, 255, 
257
, 269–70, 280–81; 
ordering the past in, 29, 270–71; and 
received narrative, 15, 16n, 17n, 18; 
setting in, 254n, 267–68, 272; text 
details, 239; unstated cosmological 
principles in, 268–69, 272–73, 274
The Mirror of the Watchman in the Fields
(Nomori no kagami): authority in, 
199–200; Buddhist final age beliefs in, 
231–32; commonalities with 
Mirror
genre, 202–3; content of, 228–32; 
cosmological principles in, 234–35, 237; 
dating of, 4; language selection in, 227, 
232–33, 254n; mirror metaphor in, 
233–35; nostalgia in, 235–36; poetry in, 
228–29, 230, 233; postface in, 202, 234, 
235, 264–65; preface in, 202, 226–27; 
setting in, 227–28, 235; text details, 197
Mirror of the Yoshiwara [Pleasure 
Quarters]
(Yoshiwara kagami), 275
Misumi Yōichi, 193n
Miura Yoshimura, 216, 218
Mizukagami
. See 
The Water Mirror
Mochihito (prince), 84–85, 90, 212, 213, 
214, 273
Mōko shūrai ekotoba
(Illustrated Account 
of the Mongol Invasions), 198
Mongol invasions, 197–99, 222, 223–24, 
225, 231n, 262
Mononobe no Moriya, 111, 122, 269n

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Mori Masato, 23, 37, 43, 49n
Morishita Yōji, 56n
Morita Tsurayuki, 149n, 156n
Morrell, Rober
t E
., 281n
Mujū Ichien, 281, 282n
Mumyōzōshi
(Nameless Writings), 
133–34, 135
Munenaga (prince), 240
Munetaka (prince-shogun): and 
The 
China Mirror
readership, 143, 144, 181; 
deposition of, 205, 211, 218–19; and 
Kamakura shogunate power, 141, 177n; 
The Mirror of the East
on, 205, 211, 
218–19; and 
The Tale of Genji
, 201n, 
221n; and Tameie, 191n
Murasaki Shikibu, 8n, 66, 74. Se
e a
lso 
The Tale of Genji
Muromachi (Ashikaga) 
bakufu
, 239, 241, 
248, 249, 250, 258, 266
My Humble Thoughts
(Gukanshō) (Jien), 
181–88; and cosmological principles, 
23, 181, 182–87, 236–37, 247, 272; 
language selection in, 115–16, 126n, 
184; readership of, 181; on social 
disorder, 2, 108; and succession tales, 
181–82; text details, 138; and 
The Water 
Mirror
, 107, 182
Nagahara Keiji, 204n, 206–7n
Nakayama no Tadachika: 
A Minister’s 
Logbook
, 89–91, 113, 134, 139–40. See 
also 
The Water Mirror
Nameless Writings
(Mumyōzōshi), 133–34, 
135
Nanshoku ōkagami
(The Great Mirror of 
Male Love) (Ihara Saikaku), 276, 277n
narrative site. 
See
setting
Nattier, Jan, 25–26
nenbutsu
sects, 230–31, 232
Nenjū gyōji emaki
(Illustrated Scroll of 
Annual Events), 6
New Leaves Waka Collection
(Shin’yō 
wakashū), 240
The New Mirror
(Imakagami) (Tamet-
sune): authorship of, 58; and Buddhist 
final age beliefs, 50–51; on Chinese-
Japanese synthesis, 11; content of, 
59–63, 70, 260; continuities with past 
in, 68–69, 72–73; on court culture, 59, 
61–62, 68–69; dating of, 4, 58n; elision 
of social disorder in, 67–68, 72n; as 
exemplar of