Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History

Index

people 296–306; religion 330–41; warriors and
warfare 138, 139–40, 162, 163, 165, 310–21; see
also early medieval period; late medieval period
Meeks, Lori 283, 334
Meiji period (1868–1912) 48n5, 59, 61, 148;
archaeology 55; cadastral maps 14, 17;
premodern Japanese history scholarship 4;
scholarship on family and women 276–7; science
history 364, 365
metallurgy 366, 370, 374n38
microhistory 167
microtopography 15, 17
middle class, rural 267–8, 272
Middle Kofun period 68, 79; state formation 74–7
Mieda Akiko 175
migration: Kofun period 194; from Korean
peninsula 191, 251
Mikami Takehiko 24
Mikami Yoshitaka 353–63
Mikumo, Chikuzen prefecture 63
military regiments (gundan) 86
military training 321
Miller, Richard 87
millet 378, 379, 381, 385
Minamoto Shitagō (911–983) 254
Minamoto Tsunemoto (894–861) 313
Minamoto Yoritomo (1147–1199) 140, 314, 332, 393
Minamoto Yoshitomo (1123–1160) 224
Minamushi Sanjin (aka Toki Gengo, 1836–1900) 57,
60
mineral resources 24
Ming China 148
mining 353, 370
Ministry of Monastic Affairs 237, 240
Mino province: demography 253 , 253–4
Minoru Shinoda 4
Minowa Kenryō 242
Miura Hiroyuki 4, 264, 276, 279
Miura Keiichi 304
miyake (royal estates) 78
Miyamoto Kazuo 379
Miyasaki Eiichi 59
miyaza (village assemblies) 262, 269, 270
Miyoshi Kiyoyuki (847–918) 254
Mizoguchi Kōji 190, 192–3
Mizuta Yoshikazu 19
moats 68
modernization theory 2, 39, 146, 148, 365
Moerman, Max 242–3
Mohe people 43
Momosaki Yuichirō 173–4
Mongol attacks 142, 317
Mononobe family 235
Mononobe no Yuge no Moriya 204
monsoons 24
Morgan, Lewis 279
Mōri family 144, 146

Mori Katsumi 39, 40, 44, 45

Mori Kimiyuki 43

Mori Kōichi 45

Mori Toshio 316

Mori, Mizue 189

Morillo, Stephen 319, 320

Morita Tei 88, 312, 316

Morris, Dana 90

Morris, Ivan 233, 239

Morse, Edward 59, 60, 61, 63

mortuary practices: cairns 76; Jōmon period 190,

191; Kofun period see burial mounds; and

outcasts 299, 302; Yayoi period 68; see also grave

goods

motherhood 281

Motoki Yasuo 313

Motoori Norinaga (1730–1801) 4, 58, 63–4

Mount Asama 25, 26

Mount Fuji 26

Mount Hiei 333, 335, 338

Mount Kōya 332, 333, 341

Mount Tabora 25

mountain ascetics 337

mountains, and food production 382

Mozai Torao 45, 46

Mozu-Ōtsukayama tomb 74, 76

muen (“unconnectedness”; “non-connectedness”) 19,

149

Mujū (1226–1312) 338

Mukaisamada site, Akita prefecture 191

Mukogaoka shell midden, Yayoi-chō 62

mumon ginsen (“characterless silver coins”) coinage

355–6

Munro, Neil Gordon 59

Murayama Shūichi 338

Murdoch, James 4

Muromachi period (1333–1568) 2, 139, 146, 157,

174, 176, 394; demography 248, 257; local

autonomy 142–5; spirituality and culture 173;

warriors and warfare 310, 314

Muromachi sengoku-ki kenkyū o yominaosu (Yominaosu)

173–5

Mutsu waki (“Account of Mutsu”) 4, 315

Myō’e (1173–232) 334, 335

myōshu (cultivators responsible for remitting taxes)

267–8, 269, 270

Na 63

Nagahara Keiji 4, 57, 108, 109, 138, 141, 143,

144–5, 160, 171, 176, 179, 278, 282, 300, 301,

303, 313

Nagahara Kenji 265

Nagamura Makoto 234, 337, 338–9

Nagaoka (784–794) 99, 121, 217

Nagatake, Saitama 56

Nagaya, Prince 88

Naka no Ōe (Emperor Tenji) 83