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The Mirror of the East
on, 199, 226; and time as endless cycle, 
136. 
Se
e a
lso
continuities with past
Gaozu (Chinese emperor), 150–51
Geddes, Ward, 55
Genji binkagami
(Hand-Mirror for the 
Genji), 277
Genji ippon kyō
(One-Volume 
Sutra on the Genji) (Chōken), 34, 75, 
77–78, 81
Genji kokagami
(The Small Mirror of the 
Genji), 283
Genji ōkagami
(The Great Mirror of the 
Genji), 283
Genkō Disturbance (1331–33), 259, 260n, 
262–63
Genmei (empress), 124
Genpei War (1180–85): and Buddhist 
final age beliefs, 51, 85, 107; and 
The 
Clear Mirror
, 273; and cosmological 
principles, 25, 107–8, 212–15, 223; and 
Hōgen Disturbance, 53; impact of, 
84–87; and Kamakura 
bakufu
establishment, 110–11, 222–23; and 
Kyoto, 1–2, 86–87; 
The Mirror of the 
East
on, 211, 212–15; 
The Mirror of the 
Gods
on, 268; and normalization of 
violence, 111, 113; tales about, 136; and 
The Water Mirror
, 29, 89, 90, 109, 110, 
188, 223
Genshō (empress), 64, 112
Godaigo (emperor), 103, 240, 258n, 259, 
261n, 262–63, 265
Goen’yu (emperor), 266n
Gohanazono (emperor), 267
Goichijō (emperor), 60
Gomi Fumihiko, 21n, 88n, 158, 
159, 202, 203–4, 213n, 221, 222n, 
225n
Gosaga (retired emperor), 228
Gosanjō (emperor), 50
Goseibai shikimoku
(Kamakura Code of 
Governance), 205, 206n
Goshirakawa (emperor), 52–53, 124n, 218, 
227–28
Gotoba (retired emperor), 110, 141, 181, 
215, 258n, 264
Gouda (emperor), 261

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Index
The Great Mirror
(Ōkagami): Anglo-
phone scholarship on, 18; catalysts for 
writing of, 49–50; and 
Collected 
Treasures
, 75; content of, 38–42, 59n, 
69–70; cosmological principles in, 2–3, 
23, 25, 46–47; dating of, 4, 36; exile in, 
176; eyewitness in, 130, 131; and false 
speech, 76n; as genre progenitor, 10, 
17n, 35, 36; Haga Yaichi on, 15; 
importance of, 2–3; karma in, 46, 103, 
222; language selection in, 47–49, 74, 
116n; literary quality of, 3n; mirror 
metaphor in, 189n; and 
The New 
Mirror
, 58–59, 59n, 61, 66–67, 69–70, 
73–74; nostalgia in, 109, 225; ordering 
the past in, 29, 46–47, 103, 104; and 
Plums and Pines
, 248n; preface of, 
37–38, 43, 45; received narrative on, 15, 
17; setting in, 23, 43–46, 132n; on social 
disorder, 5–6; as succession tale, 182; 
vs. 
Tale of Flowering Fortunes
, 9; and 
tales, 9; text details, 34; title variations, 
36–37; on truth, 39; 
The Water Mirror
on, 130–31
The Great Mirror of Male Love
(Nan-
shoku ōkagami) (Ihara Saikaku), 276, 
277n
The Great Mirror of the Erotic Way
(Shikidō ōkagami), 276
The Great Mirror of the Genji
(Genji 
ōkagami), 283
The Great Mirror of the Several Charms
(Shoen ōkagami) (Ihara Saikaku), 
276–77n
Guangwu (Chinese emperor), 152–53
Gukanshō
. See 
My Humble Thoughts
gunki monogatari
(war tales), 15, 85n, 
87, 135–36
Gyōki, 228
Hachiman gudōkun
(A Simple Teaching 
on the Hachiman Deity), 198
Haga Yaichi, 14–15, 16n, 17, 19
Hand-Mirror for the Genji
(Genji 
binkagami), 277
Hangzhou chunwang
(On the Spring 
View in Hangzhou) (Bai Juyi), 178
“Harima-no-kuni Shosha-zan engi” 
(Account of the Origins of Mount 
Shosha in Harima Province) (Kairin), 
227
Harper, Thomas, 63n, 75n
Hasedera Temple, 64–65, 97, 98, 99
Hata no Kawakatsu, 122
Hayashi Razan, 276