IndexKebiishi (“Investigators of Oddities”) 303
Kegon school of Buddhism 233, 239, 334, 338, 339
Keichō Fushimi earthquake, 1596 26
Keiji Imamura 251
Keirstead, Thomas 138, 139, 301
Keitai, King (r. 507–531, r. 534) 77
Kenchi 338
kendō (fencing) 319
Kengen taihō coinage 358
kenkyū ryōseibai 178
kenmitsu (exoteric/esoteric) Buddhism 240, 330, 331,
332, 333, 335
kenmon 7n11, 107–11, 173, 223, 224, 233, 241
“Kenmu Restoration” (1333–1336) 5
Kenshun 166
kentōshi (diplomatic missions to Tang) 38, 39, 40–1,
42, 44, 45–6, 47
kenzuishi (diplomatic missions to Sui) 38, 40, 41–2,
44, 46, 47
Kern, Martin 243
keyhole-shaped (zenpō-kōen; kofun) burial mounds
68–9, 71–2, 73–5, 77, 78, 79, 193; see also burial
mounds
Khitan Liao dynasty (907–1125) 38
Kidder, J. Edward 193, 235, 236
Kikaigashima 395
Kiley, Cornelius 90, 162
Kim Sang Chŏng 43
Kim Woncin 396
Kimbrough, Keller 283
Kimiya Yasuhiko 39, 40, 44
Kimura Kenkadō 58, 64
Kimura Shigemitsu 378, 381
Kinai houses 87
Kinai region 271
Kinda Akihiro 17, 18
Kinmei, Emperor 78
Kinsei Nihon no kokka kenryoku to shūkyō (Takano)
162
Kiraizumi Kiyoshi 4
Kishi Toshio 16, 85
Kitabatake Chikafusa 4, 159
Kitamura Masaki 219, 220
Kitihara Itoko 30
Kitō Hiroshi 29, 248–9, 251, 255, 258, 259
kiyome (purifiers) 297, 303, 304
Kiyomihara code 84, 85, 86
Kiyomizuzaka shuku 302, 303
Kiyotake Kami Inoharu, Miyazaki prefecture 56
Klein, Susan Blakeley 338
Ko ryō (“Statute on Households”) 205, 206, 208
Kobayashi Kazumasa 250, 253
Kobayashi Kentarō 18–19
Kobayashi Tatsuo 191
Kobayashi Yukio 69, 72, 203
kodai (“ancient” or “antiquity”) age 2, 3
kōden (“public rice fields”) 124, 126
Kōfukuji (temple) 16, 103, 106, 107, 108, 222, 224,
233, 235, 240, 241, 242, 303
“Kofun Cold Stage” 25
Kofun period (c.300–6006) 6n4; climate 27; Daoism
236; demography 248, 249, 251; gender and
family relationships 203–5; religion 187, 189,
193–5; state formation 68–79
Kōgo Register 83–4, 85
Koguryŏ, Japan’s relationship with 38, 43, 44
Kohn, Livia 236, 238
Koichi Shinohara 243
Kōin Register 84
Kojiki (“Record of Ancient Matters”) 3, 42, 43, 57,
58, 59, 204, 381; and religion in the archaic era
187, 191, 193, 194, 195
Kojima no Shinkō 240
Kōjindani, Shimane prefecture 63, 192
Kokan Shiren (1273–1347) 338
Kokugaku school of National Learning 58, 63
kokugaryō (“land controlled by the provincial
administration”/public lands) 123, 138
kokujin (“provincials”) 142, 145, 147, 148, 175
kōkukushikan (“imperial point of view on history”)
264
kokusei 241, 242
kokushi (provincial officials) 119; see also governors
(provincial), zuryō
Komakino, Aomori prefecture 191
Komine Kazuaki 339
Kōmyō, Imperial Consort (701–760) 240, 242
Kondō Shigekazu 161
Kondō Yoshikazu 316, 317
Kondō Yoshirō 59, 69–70
Kōnin rekiun ki 63
Kōnin rekiun kikō (Hirata) 63
Kōnin, Emperor (709–781, r. 770–781) 206
Konjaku monogatarishū 298, 315
Konoe Sakihisa 164
Korean peninsula: coinage 355; Early Kofun period
74; equestrianism 76; Japanese relationship with,
classical period 38, 42–4, 45, 46, 47; Japanese
relationship with, medieval period 148–9, 395–6;
and Japanese religion 237, 243; legal codes 85–6;
migration from 191; trade with Japan 395–6
Korean scholarship 176
kōryō (“land under public control”) 123, 124
Koryŏ (Korean Kingdom, 918–1392) 38, 47
kosakunin (small-hold peasants) 269
Kōtoku, Emperor (597–654, r. 645–654) 84, 197
Koyama Shūzō 249, 250
Koyama Yasunori 44–5
Kōzei 166
Kozo Yamamura 90, 354, 391
kubunden (“fields allotted per person”) 118, 119, 123
Kudara Ōdera (temple) 240
Kuhn, Thomas 372n12
Kujō (Ninth Street), Nara 16