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Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens, and Stacie Matsumoto, editors
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Between and beyond centers and peripheries / Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens -- Part I: Locating political centers and peripheries -- From female sovereign to mother of the nation: women and government in the Heian period / Fukuto Sanae with Takeshi Watanabe -- Court and provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira / Joan R. Piggott -- Kugyo and Zuryo: center and periphery in the era of Fujiwara no Michinaga / G. Cameron Hurst III - Part II: Shifting categories in literature and the arts -- The way of the literati: Chinese learning and literary practice in mid-Heian Japan / Ivo Smits -- Terrains of text in mid-Heian court culture / Edward Kamens -- The Buddhist transformation of Japan in the ninth century: the case of Eleven-Headed Kannon / Samuel C. Morse -- Part III: Establishing new religious spheres -- Scholasticism, exegesis, and ritual practice: on renovation in the history of Buddhist writing in the early Heian period / Ryuichi Abe -- Institutional diversity and religious integration: the establishment of temple networks in the Heian age / Mikael Adolphson -- The archeology of anxiety: an underground history of Heian religion / D. Max Moerman -- Part IV: Negotiating domestic peripheries -- Famine, climate, and faming in Japan, 076-0011 / William Wayne Farris -- Life of commoners in the provinces: the Owari no gebumi of 889 / Charlotte von Verschuer -- Lordship interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition / Karl Friday -- Part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian world -- Cross-border traffic on the Kyushu coast, 497-6801 / Bruce L. Batten -- Jojin's travels from center to center )with some periphery in between( / Robert Borgen