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The Water Mirror
, 101–3, 104–7, 
108, 250. 
See also
time as endless cycle
time as endless cycle (four-
kalpa
view): 
and biography format, 120–21; and 
Buddhist final age beliefs, 102; and 
double scales for time, 104, 106, 107; 
and future, 136; in 
Gods and Sovereigns
, 
103, 136; in 
The Great Mirror
, 105n; and 
social disorder, 101–2, 108, 109, 113
Toba (senior retired emperor), 52–53
Tokugawa Ieyasu, 280n
Tongguk t’onggam
(Comprehensive 
Mirror of the Eastern Land), 11–12n
Tonomura Hisae, 139, 140n, 142n, 144, 
151n, 168, 202, 221
The True Record of Emperor Montoku of 
Japan
(Nihon Montoku Tennō 
Jitsuroku), 5
True Record of Three Reigns in Japan
(Nihon sandai jitsuroku), 5
truth: and eyewitness, 130–31; 
The Great 
Mirror
on, 39; and setting, 176; and 
sinfulness of literature, 74–82; and 
vernacular register, 48, 49. 
See also
authority; false speech; mirror 
metaphor
Tsuchiya Yoshikiyo, 218
Tsuma kagami
(Mirror for Women) 
(Mujū Ichien), 281, 282n
“Tsunemasa” (Zeami), 136
Tyler, Royall, 103n
Uda (emperor), 
119
Uki
(Shukaku), 11n
Upon Ascending to Leyou Park on the First 
Day of Autumn
(Liqiu deng Leyou 
yuan) (Bai Juyi), 179
Urashima Tarō, 94–96
Urin’in Temple, 23, 42, 43–46, 98, 132n
Uwayokote Masataka, 158
valorization of past. 
See
nostalgia
Vande Walle, Willy, 147n

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Varley, H. Paul, 242n, 244n
vernacular register. 
See
language 
selection
Verschuer, Charlotte von, 199n
violence, normalization of, 111–13
wabun
: in 
The Clear Mirror
, 254n, 255, 
256
, 260; defined, 5n; in 
The Mirror of 
the Watchman in the Fields
, 227, 
232–33; received narrative on, 14; and 
tales vs. chronicles, 8. 
See also
language 
selection
Wada Rebellion (1213), 211, 218
Wang Mang, 152
Warring States period, 239
war tales (
gunki monogatari
), 15, 85n, 87, 
135–36
Watanabe, Takeshi, 8, 14n, 15n, 76n
Watase Sigeru, 265–66n
The Water Mirror
(Mizukagami) 
(Tadachika): 
Abbreviated Records
as 
source for, 93, 94–95, 99n, 112, 121, 123, 
124, 125; authority in, 96–97; and 
Buddhist final age beliefs, 26, 101–2, 
107, 126, 188, 210, 222, 265; and 
The 
China Mirror
, 137, 143, 173–74, 190; 
and 
The Clear Mirror
, 137, 250n; 
content of, 92–96, 260; continuities 
with past in, 1, 87–88, 102, 109–10; 
dating of, 4, 88–90; format in, 120–21; 
on future, 100, 105–6, 107; on 
The 
Great Mirror
, 130–31; local outlook in, 
121–27; and 
The Mirror of the Gods
, 
270; and 
My Humble Thoughts
, 107, 
182; normalization of violence in, 
111–13; on nostalgia, 91–92, 101, 102, 
109, 187; and ordering the past, 29; 
postface in, 264–65; preface in, 89, 
91–93, 96–97, 99, 100–102, 127, 130; 
received narrative on, 17; setting in, 45, 
97–100; and social disorder, 1, 29, 35, 
89, 90, 188, 222–23; on 
The Tale of 
Genji
, 128, 228–29; text details, 84; 
time in, 101–3, 104–7, 108, 250; 
Yotsutsuji on, 10n. See also