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| Preface | |
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| Explanatory Note | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Chronological Table | |
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| Early Japan | |
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| The Earliest Records of Japan | |
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| Japan in the Chinese Dynastic Histories | |
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| Accounts of the Eastern Barbarians | |
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| History of the Kingdom of Wei (Wei zhi) ca. 297 C.E. | |
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| History of the Latter Han Dynasty (Hou Han shu) ca. 445 C.E. | |
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| History of the Liu Song Dynasty (Songshu) ca. 513 C.E. | |
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| History of the Sui Dynasty (Sui shu) ca. 630 C.E. | |
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| New History of the Tang Dynasty (Xin Tang shu) | |
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| The Earliest Japanese Chronicles | |
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| Birth of the Land | |
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| Preface to Records of Ancient Matters (Kojiki) | |
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| Early Shinto | |
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| Legends Concerning Shinto Deities | |
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| Birth of the Sun Goddess | |
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| The Divine Creation of the Imperial Ancestors | |
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| Legends Concerning Susa-no-o | |
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| Susa-no-o and the Sun Goddess | |
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| Susa-no-o in Izumo | |
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| Descent of the Divine Grandson with the Three Imperial Regalia | |
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| Princess Yamato and Prince Plenty | |
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| The Founding of Izumo | |
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| Enshrinement of Amaterasu | |
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| Shinto Prayers (Norito) | |
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| Norito for the Festival of the Sixth Month | |
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| The Blessing of the Great Palace | |
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| The Great Exorcism of the Last Day of the Sixth Month | |
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| Moving the Shrine of the Great Deity at Ise | |
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| Driving Away a Vengeful Deity | |
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| Congratulatory Words of the Chieftain of Izumo | |
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| Prince Shotoku and His Constitution | |
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| Internal Strife in the Late Sixth Century | |
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| The Reign of Suiko and Rule of Shotoku | |
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| The Empress Suiko, 592-628 C.E. | |
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| The Seventeen-Article Constitution of Prince Shotoku | |
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| The Lotus Sutra | |
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| Preaching the One Great Vehicle [Mahayana] | |
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| The Parable of the Burning House | |
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| The Vimalakirti Sutra (Yuima-kyo) | |
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| Entering the Gate of Nondualism | |
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| Chinese Thought and Institutions in Early Japan | |
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| Chinese-Style History and the Imperial Concept | |
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| From the Preface to Records of Ancient Matters (Kojiki) | |
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| Emperor Jinmu | |
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| Nintoku: Rule of Benevolence | |
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| The Reform Era | |
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| Fujiwara no Kamatari and the Future Emperor Tenchi | |
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| Inauguration of the Great Reform Era | |
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| Reform Edicts | |
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| The White Pheasant | |
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| The Chinese Model of Rulership (Denis Twitchett) | |
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| Taizong: Plan for an Emperor (Difan) (Denis Twitchett) | |
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| The Commentary on the Legal Code (Ryo no gige) | |
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| Memorial on the Submission of the Commentary on the Legal Code | |
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| Regulations for Fitness Reports | |
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| New Compilation of the Register of Families | |
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| Preface in the Form of a Memorial to Emperor Saga | |
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| Preface to the Kaifuso | |
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| Nara Buddhism | |
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| The Sutra of the Golden Light | |
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| The Protection of the Country by the Four Deva Kings | |
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| The Flower Garland School | |
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| The Flower Garland Sutra | |
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| The Flower Garland Sutra: The Tower of Vairochana | |
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| The Buddha Kingdom of the Flower Garland | |
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| State Sponsorship and Control of Buddhism | |
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| The Humane King as Protector of Buddhism | |
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| Buddhism and the State in Nara Japan | |
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| Proclamation of the Emperor Shomu on the Erection of the Great Buddha Image | |
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| The Bodhisattva Gyogi (Yoshiko Dykstra) | |
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| Regulation of the Buddhist Orders by the Court | |
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| Edicts of the Empress Shotoku Concerning Dokyo | |
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| Edict of October 19, 764 | |
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| Edict of November 26, 766 | |
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| The Merger of Buddhist and Shinto Deities | |
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| Mahayana Universalism and the Sense of Hierarchy | |
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| Saicho and Mt. Hiei (Ryusaku Tsunoda and Paul Groner) | |
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| The Tendai Lotus Teaching | |
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| Guanding: On the Five Periods of the Buddha's Teaching (Daniel Stevenson) | |
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| Huisi: The Method of Calming and Contemplation in the Mahayana | |
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| Zhiyi: Calming and Contemplation | |
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| Saicho: Vow of Uninterrupted Study of the Lotus Sutra | |
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| Saicho: Explaining the Precepts | |
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| The Mahayana Precepts in Admonitions of the Fanwang Sutra | |
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| Regulations for Students of the Mountain School in Six Articles I | |
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| Regulations for Students of the Mountain School II | |
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| Subsequent History of Tendai and Mt. Hiei (Paul Groner) | |
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| Kukai and Esoteric Buddhism | |
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| Indications of the Goals of the Three Teachings (Sango shiki) | |
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| Kukai and His Master | |
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| Encounter with Huiguo | |
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| Enlightenment in This Bodily Existence | |
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| The Ten Stages of Religious Consciousness | |
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| Recapitulation of the Ten Stages of Religious Consciousness | |
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| A School of Arts and Sciences | |
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| Regulations for Inviting the Instructors | |
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| The Spread of Esoteric Buddhism | |
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| Prayer of the Retired Emperor Shirakawa on Offering the Tripitaka to Hachiman | |
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| Miracle Tales of the Bodhistattva Jizo (Yoshiko Dykstra) | |
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| How Mochikata Received a Miraculous Revelation | |
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| About the "Malt Jizo" of Kanuki in Suruga | |
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| Sex and Buddhahood--A Shingon Heresy | |
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| Selections from The Precious Mirror (Hokyosho) | |
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| Prayers for the Shogun | |
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| Letter of the Monk Mongaku to Shogun Yoriie A.D. 1200 | |
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| Annen: Maxims for the Young (Dojikyo) | |
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| The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics I | |
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| Murasaki Shikibu: On the Art of Fiction | |
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| Fujiwara Teika: Introduction to the Guide to the Composition of Poetry | |
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| The Medieval Age: Despair, Deliverance, and Destiny | |
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| Amida, the Pure Land, and the Response of the Old Buddhism to the New | |
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| Traditional Pure Land Buddhism | |
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| Genshin: The Essentials of Salvation | |
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| Innovators of the New Pure Land Buddhism | |
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| Honen: Choosing the Original Vow for the Recitation of the Buddha's Name (Senchaku hongan nembutsu shu) | |
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| The One-Page Testament | |
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| The Lamentation and Self-Reflection of Gutoku Shinran | |
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| Shinran: A Record in Lament of Divergencies (Tannisho) | |
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| Rennyo: Rennyo's Rules | |
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| Items to Be Prohibited Among True Pure Land Adherents | |
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| Nembutsu as Gratitude | |
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| Ippen: Selections from A Hundred Sayings | |
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| The Revival of Earlier Buddhism | |
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| Myoe: Smashing the Evil Chariot | |
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| The Meaning of the Kegon Practice of Meditation, Clarity of Insight, and Entry into the Gate of Deliverance | |
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| Jokei: Gedatsu Shonin's Petition for Reviving the Precepts | |
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| New Views of History (Paul Varley) | |
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| Historical Tales (Rekishi monogatari) | |
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| A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari) | |
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| Fujiwara no Michinaga: Flowering Fortunes | |
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| The Great Mirror (Okagami) | |
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| Fujiwara no Michinaga: Flowering Fortunes, Continued | |
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| Medieval Uses of the Past | |
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| Jien | |
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| Gukansho | |
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| One Hundred Kings | |
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| Helping Emperors Rule | |
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| An Appeal to Retired Emperor Go-Toba | |
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| Kitabatake Chikafusa and the Southern Court | |
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| The Direct Succession of Gods and Sovereigns (Jinno shotoki) | |
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| Fujiwara and Murakami Genji as Assistants to Emperors | |
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| On Imperial Restoration | |
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| The Way of the Warrior (Paul Valey) | |
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| Taira and Minamoto | |
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| The Tale of Hogen (Hogen monogatari) | |
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| The Night Attack on the Shirakawa Palace | |
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| The Tale of the Heiji (Heiji monogatari) | |
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| The Burning of the Sanjo Palace | |
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| The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari) | |
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| "The Mighty Fall at Last, They Are Dust Before the Wind" | |
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| Eastern Warriors | |
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| The Taira as Courtier-Warriors | |
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| The Mongol Invasions of Japan | |
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| The Mongol Scrolls | |
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| Chronicle of Great Peace (Taiheiki): The Loyalist Heroes | |
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| Nichiren: The Sun and the Lotus (Philip Yampolsky) | |
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| Nichiren: "Rectification for the Peace of the Nation" (Rissho ankoku ron) | |
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| The Eye-Opener | |
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| The True Object of Worship (Kanjin honzon sho) | |
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| Zen Buddhism (William Bodiford) | |
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| Zen in Japan | |
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| Eisai: Propagation of Zen for the Protection of the State (Kozen gokokuron) | |
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| Zen and Precepts | |
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| The Darumashu | |
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| Language | |
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| Ten Facilities for Zen Monasticism | |
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| Essentials for Monastics (Shukke taiko) | |
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| Dogen: How to Practice Buddhism (Bendowa) | |
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| The Fully Apparent Case (Genjo koan) | |
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| Buddha Nature (Bussho) | |
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| Muso Soseki: "Sermon at the Dedication of Tenryu-ji Dharma Hall" (from Muso kokushi goroku) | |
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| "Reflections on the Enmity Between Go-Daigo and the Shogun, Ashikaga Takauji" (from Muso kokushi goroku) | |
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| Ikkyu Sojun: The Errant Cloud Collection (Kyounshu) | |
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| Shinto in Medieval Japan | |
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| Empress Shotoku: Edict on the Great Thanksgiving Festival | |
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| The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity (Royall Tyler) | |
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| Kofuku-ji Goes to War in the Eikyu Era | |
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| Sanetsune | |
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| Yoshida Kanetomo: Prime Shinto (Allan Grapard) | |
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| The Lineage of Yuiitsu-Shinto | |
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| Regulations of Yuiitsu-Shinto | |
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| Kitabatake Chikafusa: Chronicle of the Direct Descent of Gods and Sovereigns (Jinno shotoki) | |
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| The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics II | |
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| Zeami: Entering the Realm of Yugen (Donald Keene and Thomas Rimer) | |
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| Connecting the Arts Through One Intensity of Mind | |
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| The Nine Stages of the No in Order | |
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| The True Path to the Flower (Shikado sho) | |
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| Conversations with Shotetsu | |
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| Jakuren's Poem | |
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| Kamo no Chomei: Concerning Mysterious Beauty | |
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| The Way of Tea (Paul Varley) | |
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| Drink Tea and Prolong Life | |
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| Murata Shuko: "Letter of the Heart" | |
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| The Spiritual Basis of the Tea Ceremony (from Nanporoku) | |
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| Purity and Purification in the Tea Ceremony (from Nanporoku) | |
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| Women's Education | |
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| General Preface to Illustrations of the Three Treasures (Edward Kamens) | |
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| Keisei: A Companion in Solitude (Rajyashree Pandey) | |
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| Muju Ichien: Mirror for Women (Robert Morrell) | |
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| Law and Precepts for the Warrior Houses (Paul Varley) | |
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| The Joei Code | |
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| The Law of the Muromachi Shogunate | |
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| The Kenmu Code | |
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| The Law of the Warrior Houses in the Age of War in the Provinces | |
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| The Yuki House Code | |
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| Precepts of the Warrior Houses | |
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| House Precepts in the Sengoku Age | |
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| The "Seventeen-Article Testament of Asakura Toshikage" (Asakura Toshikage ju-shichi-ka-jo) | |
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| Takeda Nobushige: The "Ninety-nine-Article Testament" | |
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| The Regime of the Unifiers (Jurgis S. A. Elisonas) | |
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| Oda Nobunaga | |
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| The Humiliation of the Shogun | |
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| The Articles of 1570 | |
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| The Remonstrance of 1572 | |
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| The Assault on Mount Hiei and the Blessings of Nobunaga | |
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| Nobunaga in Echizen | |
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| Letters from the Battleground | |
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| Regulations for the Province of Echizen | |
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| Nobunaga in Azuchi | |
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| The Proud Tower | |
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| The Free Market of Azuchi | |
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| Toyotomi Hideyoshi | |
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| Domestic Policies | |
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| The Disarmament of the Populace | |
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| Regulations for the Municipality of the Honganji | |
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| Restrictions on Change of Status | |
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| The Laws and Regulations of the Taiko | |
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| The Korean War | |
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| Letter to the King of Korea | |
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| Korea Day by Day | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |