Index
Ishii Masatoshi 40, 46
Ishii Shirō 316
Ishii Susumu 311–12, 317
Ishimoda Shō 4, 70, 88, 101, 102, 127, 205, 264,
311, 313
Ishinpō 368
Ishio Yoshihisa 88
isolation of Japan 26, 46
Isshiki Aokai, Aichi prefecture 56
Itō Masako 164
Itō Toshikazu 18, 19
Itowazugatari (The Confessions of Lady Nijō) 283–4
Iwajuku, Gunma Prefecture 59
Iwanaga Shōzō 71
Iwashimizu Hachiman shrine 222, 299
Iyanaga Nobumi 340
Izumo Taishi 193
jade production 75–6, 193
“Japan Heritage” sites 60
Jien 4
Jingū, Empress 283
Jin dynasty (265–316) 82
Jingū kaihō currency 358
Jinmu 57, 58
Jinnō shōtōki (“A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns”
or “Record of the True Lineages of Divinites and
Sovereigns”) (Kitabatake) 4, 159
Jinshin War 84, 85
Jinson (1430–1508) 304
jiokoshi (“awakening the land”) 271
jitō (“land stewards”) 140, 141, 142, 145, 314
Jitō, Empress (645–702, r. 690–697) 84, 86, 218
jizamurai (rural middle class) 272
Jōdo Shinshū (“true pure land”) Buddhism 147
Jōgan eihō coinage 358–9
Jōgō (1152–238) 332
Jōjitsu school of Buddhism 239
Jōkei (1155–213) 334
Jōkyū War 141
Jōmon period (14,000 bce–500 bce) 6n4;
archaeology 55, 56, 57, 58, 59–66, 64; climate
25, 27; demography 248, 249, 250; gender and
family relationships 203; religion 187, 189,
190–1
Jones, Franklin P. 1
jōri system 16, 17, 121
judicial administration in villages 271
“Jūjō theory” 20n11
Junko Habu 59
Juxi school of neo-Confucian philosophy 57–8
Kaeizan 333
Kaempfer, Englebert 4
Kaihuang code 82
Kaiki shōhō coinage 357
Kaiyuan code 83
Kaiyuan tongbao coinage 358
Kajūji lineage 208
Kajūji (temple) 331
Kakushin (1207–1298) 333
Kamakura 391; medieval period 393–4
Kamakura Bakufu 104, 107
Kamakura New Buddhism (Kamakura shin bukkyō)
330, 333–5, 337, 340
Kamakura period (1185–1333) 2, 3, 5, 99, 108, 109,
110, 111, 138, 139, 140, 142, 146, 149, 157, 160,
162, 173, 174; demography 248, 255–6; land
allottment patterns 19; outcasts and marginalized
people 297; warriors and warfare 140–2, 310,
311, 313–14, 317, 320; women’s rights 276
Kamata Motokazu 252
Kamegaoka (“Hill of the Jars”), Mutsu province 60
kami worship 130n15, 238, 239, 240, 241, 270,
335–6, 341; see also Shinto
Kamikawa Michio 331, 340
Kamiki Tatsuo 354
Kamo Agatanushi 205
Kamo Iwakura, Shimane prefecture 63
Kamo no Chōmei 26
Kamo shrine 220, 226
Kamotsuma No. 1 tomb 73
Kanai Toshi 19
Kanda Takahira 57
kanden (“office land”) 123
Kanegae Hiroyuki 85–6
Kan’ei famine 259
Kaner, Simon 188, 189, 190
Kaneyoshi 284
Kangi famine (1229–1232) 256
Kanjin (1074–1153) 331
Kanmu Heishi 313
Kanmu, Emperor (737–806, r. 781–806) 99–100,
125, 206, 225
Kanpyō taihō coinage 358
Kantō 149
Kanto region: demography 250, 252, 257–8, 258
Kasahara Kazuo 331, 334
Kasamatsu Hiroshi 271
kasei 241, 242
Katō Mieko 282
Katsumata Shizou 144, 146, 266–7
Kawabata Yasunari 60
Kawai, Sachiko 224
Kawai Yashushi 310–29, 314, 316, 317
Kawajira Akio 313
Kawane Yoshiyasu 102, 104–5
kawarabito (riverbank dwellers) 297
Kawaradera (temple) 240
kawaramono (riverbank dwellers) 297, 301, 303, 304,
306
Kawashima family 147
Kawashima, Terry 283
Kawasumi Tatsunori 26