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The Tale of Genji
, 259–60; text details, 
238; and 
The Water Mirror
, 137, 250n
Collcutt, Martin, 210, 212n
Collected Treasures
(Hōbutsushū) (Taira 
no Yasuyori), 75–77, 78, 79
The Complete [ten-tenths] Illustrated 
Mirror
(Ehon masukagami), 275, 
275–76n
Composed upon Passing Through Qua, 
Having Been Named General
(Shi zuo 
zhenjun canjun jing Qua zuo) (Tao 
Yuanming), 177–78
A Comprehensive Mirror for Assisting 
Governance
(Zizhi tongjian) (Sima 
Guang), 11n, 12n, 277–78n, 284
A Comprehensive Mirror of Our Sover-
eignty
(Honchō tsugan), 11–12n, 276, 
278n
Comprehensive Mirror of the Eastern Land
(Tongguk t’onggam), 11–12n
Confucianism, 244, 247n
Confucius, 150, 160
Conlan, Thomas, 132–33, 134–35, 218n, 
224, 244n, 248n, 250, 254, 273, 274
Continued Subsequent Records of Japan
(Shoku Nihon kōki), 5
continuities with past: in 
The China 
Mirror
, 87–88; in 
The Mirror of the 
East
, 225–26; in 
The New Mirror
, 
68–69, 72–73; and social disorder, 
109–10; in 
The Water Mirror
, 1, 87–88, 
102, 109–10
cosmological principles, 4, 23; absence in 
The China Mirror
, 173, 180–81, 188; 
absence in 
The Clear Mirror
, 258–59, 
265, 272–73, 274; and absence of 
preface, 207–8; and authority, 30, 
96–97; and Buddhist final age beliefs, 
2, 25–26, 35, 50–51, 105; and future, 
100, 105–6, 107, 187; and Genpei War, 
25, 107–8, 212–15, 223; in 
Gods and 
Sovereigns
, 244, 245, 246–48, 272; in 

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Index
cosmological principles (
continued
)
The Great Mirror
, 2–3, 23, 25, 46–47; 
Kūkai on, 12, 13; as legitimization of 
Kamakura 
bakufu
, 223, 225; and local 
outlook, 121–27; and mirror metaphor, 
12, 13, 181, 207–8; in 
The Mirror of the 
Watchman in the Fields
, 234–35, 237; 
and 
My Humble Thoughts
, 23, 181, 
182–87, 236–37, 247, 272; and 
nostalgia, 187; and ordering the past, 
30; overview, 278–79; and 
Plums and 
Pines
, 249–50, 265, 272; and social 
disorder, 25, 51, 107–8; in 
The Tale of 
the Heike
, 251–52, 273; unstated in 
The 
Mirror of the East
, 208, 209, 219, 226, 
236–37, 250, 273; unstated in 
The 
Mirror of the Gods
, 268–69, 272–73, 
274; and Wada Rebellion, 218. 
Se
e a
lso
Buddhism; time as endless cycle
court culture: and absence of preface, 
221–22; Chinese history as source of 
prestige in, 139–40, 142, 155; and 
The 
Clear Mirror
, 258n, 259–60, 264; and 
Fujiwara cooperation, 64; and 
kanbun
/
wabun
blending in 
The Water Mirror
, 
128–29; and 
The Mirror of the 
Watchman in the Fields
, 200, 227, 234; 
The New Mirror
on, 59, 61–62, 68–69; 
and setting of 
The China Mirror
, 
220–21. 
Se
e a
lso
court culture/
authority, separation from; divided 
court
court culture/authority, separation from: 
in 
The Great Mirror
, 43–44, 45; in