Index
Nakabayashi Shinji 319
Nakada Kaoru 4, 84
Nakagawa Zennosuke 277
Nakai, Kate Wildman 158
Nakamura Kichiji 264, 266
Nakamura Noakatsu 277
Nakatomi family 235
Nakatsuka Takeshi 27–8
Nanbokuchō period (1336–1392) 2, 173; warriors
and warfare 310, 314, 317, 318, 320
Nanbu family 148
Naniwa 83, 91
Nara (Heijō-kyō) 91, 117, 121, 217, 218, 225–6,
391; classical period 16; early capital, ninth and
tenth centuries 219–20; later capital, twelfth
century 223–5; medieval period 18; mid-capital,
tenth and eleventh centuries 220–3; settlement
patterns 26
Nara National Research Institute for Cultural
Properties 64
Nara period (710–794) 2, 3, 59; coinage and
currency 354, 356–8; demography 249, 251–4,
253 ; food production 379–80; national
boundaries and identity 45; religion 233–43
Narazaka shuku 302, 303
natural disasters 24, 26, 390, 397
Naumann, Nelly 190
naval warfare 321
Nawa Yumio 319
Needham, Joseph 365–6
Nenjūgyōji emaki (“Illustrated Scroll of Annual Court
Events”) 225
Neo-Confucianism 178
“new palace-temple towns” 223
New Stone Age 63
Nichiren (1222–1282) 334
Nickerson, Peter 280
Nihon kiryaku (“Abbreviated Chronicle of Japan”)
359
Nihon kōki (“Later Chronicle of Japan”) 3
Nihon Montoku tennō jitsuroku (“Veritable Records of
Emperor Montoku”) 4
Nihon ryōiki 207, 357, 359
Nihon sandai jitsuroku (“Veritable Records of Three
Reigns”) 4
Nihon shoki (“Chronicle of Japan”) 3, 42, 43, 57, 58,
59, 78, 83, 84, 85, 204, 235, 238, 354, 355,
380–1; and religion in the archaic era 187, 191,
193, 194, 195, 196, 197
Nihonjin-ron (“Theory of the Japanese People”) 190
Niida Noboru 83
Niimi Estate 19
Niiro Izumi 71, 72
Nijō (Second Street), Nara 16
Ninagawa Noritane 61
Ninnaji 222
Ninshō (1217–1303) 302
Nintoku, King 193
Nippon (Siebold) 63
Nishi Kawatsu, Shimane prefecture 56
Nishiguchi Junko 275
Nishijima Sadao 46
Nishijima Tarō 175
Nishikawa Yūko 280–1
Nishimura Hiroko 283
Nishino Yukiko 203, 280
Nishioka Toranosuke 4, 266, 277
Nishitani Mashahiro 139
Nishiyama Ryōhei 225
Nishiyama-zuka tumulus 73
Niunoya Tetsuichi 303, 305
Nōbi Plain 18
Noguchi Minoru 149, 316
Nojikoda, Shiga prefecture 393
Nomura Shin’ichi 316
Nonaka tumulus 74
Northern Temples 233, 240
Nōshin (1291–1353) 338
nyoki (female riders) 283, 285Ōama, Prince 84
Ōba Iwao 189
Ōbayashi Taryō 382
ōbō buppō 241, 242
ōbō buppō sōe 108
occupations: and outcast status 296, 297–8,
299–300, 301, 302, 303, 304–5, 306
ocean currents 24
ōchō kokka 7n11, 101, 104, 110–11, 220
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) 5, 142, 161, 163, 164,
171, 173, 174–5, 179
Ōdake shell middens, Toyama prefecture 56
Ōe Masafusa 313
Office of the Mint (Jusenshi) 356
Ogino Miho 284
Ogura Jun’ichi 28, 30
Ōhashi Naoyoshi 338
Okada Akio 276, 279
Okada Seiichi 317–18
Ōkagami (“Great Mirror”) 4
Okamoto Tarō 61–2
Okana Kōji 241
Okehazama, battle of 171, 180
ōken (“kingly authority,” “sovereignty”) 161
Okitsushima 270
Okladnikov, Aleksei 43
Okuno Takahiro 161, 164
Old Stone Age 63
Ōmi code 84, 85, 86
Ōmori Katsuyama, Aomori 56
Ōmori shell middens 55, 59, 60–1, 63
Ōmuro cairn 76
Ōnin War (1467–1477) 108, 139, 143, 174, 176,
321