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Amaterasu Amida (Amitäbha) Ashikaga Takauji Asuka period Aizawa Seishisai be Bodhisattva Buddha buke shohatto daimyö Dainichi (Vairochana) Dögen Eisai fudai Fujiwara Gempei War Genshin Go-Shirakawa Hayashi Razan Hayashi Nobuatsu Heian Himiko Hirata Atsutane Holland Hönen honke Höjö hyakushö ie ikki Ishiyama Honganji jiriki jito Jökyü War (1221) Jömon kabuki Kamakura Kammu Heiji Kamo Mabuchi kögi kokka Kojiki kubunden Kükai kuramoto Kyöto Kyüshü mandala mappö |
Matsudaira Sadanobu Minamoto no Yoritomo Minamoto no Yoshitsune Mitogaku Mongol Manchu Motoori Norinaga Murasaki Shikibu Muromachi musume yado Nakatomi Nara nembutsu Nichiren nirvana Oda Nobunaga ritsu-ryö system ryöke sankin kötai Seiwa Genji Sekigahara sesshö Shaka (Shäkyamuni) Shimabara Shingon Shinran shöen Shötoku taishi (Prince Shötoku) shugo Susa-no-o sö Sutoku T'ang Taihö code (702) Taika reforms (646) Taira no Kiyomori Tale of Genji Tanuma Okitsugu Tokugawa Hidetada Tokugawa Ieyasu Toyotomi Hideyoshi Tomb period uji wakamonogumi Yamatai Yamato Yayoi Zen |
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DeBary, eds., Sources of Japanese Tradition
Wei chih, pp. 4-8
Kojiki, pp. 15-16, 21-23, 25-27
Nihongi (or Nihon shoki), pp. 13-15, 20-21, 24-25, 28-29
Izumo no kuni fudoki, pp. 29-20
especially Shötoku constitution, pp. 50-55
Taika reform edict, 77-84
Sütra of Golden Light, 107-108
Proclamation of Emperor Shömu, 114-115
"Ten Stages of Religious Consciousness," 169-170
"Essentials of Salvation," 218-222
Shinran, 227-228
Zen precepts 325-327
Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature
Yugao chapter of Genji monogatari
Atsumori selection from Heike monogatari, 179-84
Lu, Japan: A Documentary History
Shötoku constitution, 1: 23-26
Taika reform edict 1: 26-29
Taihö code 1: 29-36
land edicts 1: 92-101
vassal edicts, 1: 101- 106
Goseibai shikimoku, 1: 106-116
Documents on shugo 1: 156-160
Daimyö house laws 1: 175-185
Hideyoshi's edicts in Lu 1: 191-197
Buke shohatto in Lu 1: 206-208
Regulations for Villagers in Lu 1: 213-215
Chüshingura
Writings of Hayashi Razan
"Women and Wisdom of Japan" or Onna daigaku
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