CONTENTS
Preface = ⅸ
Acknowledgments = xv
One. Introduction : Beginnings = 3
Two. Trajectory of a Discourse : Transfiguring Warlord Power into Sacred Authority = 18
Officializing Strategies = 26
Coopting a Religious World View = 29
Bursting through Traditional Authority Structures = 39
Appropriating Shinto for a Political Cult = 45
Ieyasu, the Divine Ruler = 50
Three. Trajectory of a Discourse : Systemic Sacralization and Genesis Amnesia = 63
Ieyasu's Testament = 66
Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Hayashi House = 72
An Ever-Expandable Discourse with an Empty Center = 80
Pre-Tokugawa Roots and the Warongo = 96
Genesis Amnesia = 106
Four. Disseminators of Ruling Ideas : Monks, Laws, Bestsellers = 109
Fujiwara Seika : Lofty Spirituality = 111
Suzuki Sh$$\bar o$$san : Defending the Tokugawa by Sword and Word = 122
Legislation = 143
Kiyomizu monogatari : A Polemic Defense of Neo-Confucianism = 151
Five. Ideological Space : Recentering the Court, Ritual and Religion = 162
Neutralizing Imperial Authority and Prestige = 163
Tenkai : Ritualist- Ideologue = 173
Stemming Religious Diffusion ; Suppressing Religious Separatism = l86
Six. Yamazaki Ansai : Repossessing the Way = 194
In the Footsteps of Chu Hsi = 197
A Blocked Alternative : To the Way through History = 211
Embodying the Way in Japan = 221
Seven. Suika and Kimon : The Way and Language = 233
Beneath Mythology : A Subtext on a Political Way = 233
A Mytho-Ontology = 250
Language Tension : A Parting of Paths over the Same Way = 262
Discipline, Reverence and Practice = 275
Eight. Conclusion : History and Silence, Tokugawa Ideology Reconstructed = 287
Epilogue = 297
Character List = 299
Bibliography = 311
Index = 337
