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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Map: The Provinces of Premodern Japan | |
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| Preface | |
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| Landmarks, Eras, and Appellation in Japanese History | |
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| Japan's Natural Setting | |
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| Sorting the Past | |
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| Defining "Ancient" and "Classical," | |
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| Defining "Medieval," | |
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| Defining "Early Modern," | |
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| Part II | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Origins of the Japanese People | |
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| What Used to Be Called Shinto: The Question of Japans Indigenous Religion | |
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| The Emergence of Political Rulership and the State in Early Japan | |
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| Early Japan and the Continent | |
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| Centralization and State Formation in Sixth-and Seventh-Century japan | |
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| Court, Capital, and Countryside in the classical Age | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Emperor, Aristocracy, and the Ritsuryo State: Court Politics in | |
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| Oligarchy, Shared Rulership, and Power Blocs | |
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| Aristocratic Buddhism | |
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| The Canons of Courtly Taste | |
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| The Provinces and the Public Economy, 700-1100 | |
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| The Shoen System | |
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| The Dawn of the Samurai | |
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| The Kamakura Shogunate and the Beginnings of Warrior Power | |
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| Demesne, Dominion, and Diffusion in the Medieval Age | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Kamakura and the Challenges of Governance | |
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| Go-DaigM, Takauji, and the Muromachi Shogunate | |
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| Medieval Religion | |
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| Warriors, Warlords, and Domains | |
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| Medieval Warfare | |
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| Medieval Arts and Aesthetics | |
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| Gender Relations in the Age of Violence | |
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| The Rise of the Peasantry | |
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| The Medieval Economy | |
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| Diplomacy, Piracy, and the Space Between: Japan and East Asia in the Medieval Period | |
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| Bureaucrats, Burghers, and Bailiwicks in the Early Modern Age | |
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| Timeline | |
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| The Sixteenth-Century Reunification | |
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| The Political Order | |
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| A Whole New World (Order): Early Modern Japanese Foreign Relations, 1550-1850 | |
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| The New Warriors: Samurai in Early Modern Japan | |
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| Urbanization, Trade; and Merchants | |
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| Ukiyo asobi: Urban Arts and Entertainments in Early Modem Japan, Frank Chance | |
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| Religion in Early Modern Japan | |
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| Peace Dividend: Agrarian Developments in Tokugawa Japan | |
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| Family, Gender, and Sex in Early Modern Japan | |
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| Thought, Education, and Popular Literacies in Early Modern Japan | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Index | |