The beginnings : prehistory to 1333. Zen culture and the counter mind ; The prelude to Zen culture ; The rise of Japanese Buddhism ; The chronicles of Zen ; Zen archery and swordsmanship (the Kamakura era : 1185-1333) -- The age of high culture : Ashikaga (1333-1373). The great age of Zen ; Zen and the landscape garden ; The stone gardens of Zen ; Zen and the ink landscape ; The Zen aesthetics of Japanese architecture ; The Nō theater -- The rise of popular Zen culture : 1573 to the present. Bourgeois society and later Zen ; The tea ceremony ; Zen ceramic art ; Zen and haiku ; Private Zen : flowers and food ; The lessons of Zen culture.