Contents



Prologue

List of Figures



Introduction: Zen in the Generations before Musō: The Growth of the Gozan System in Medieval Japan

1 The Life of Musō Soseki: A Critical Reading

2 Musō’s Early Life: A Turn to Zen

3 Practice and Enlightenment

5 Recluse and Abbot

6 Building a Line Under Emperor Godaigo

7 Association with the Ashikaga and the Northern Court

8 Death and Legacy

1 A Master Defined: Musō Soseki in Muchū mondōshū

1 Muchū Mondōshūand the Tradition of Kana Hōgoon Zen

2 Playing Teacher

3 A License to Critique

4 Calling Little Jade

5 Conclusion

2 Beneath the Ice: Musō Soseki and the Waka Tradition

1 Shōgaku Kokushishū: An Incomplete Textual History

2 Musō and the Way of Waka

3 Affirming the Arts: Musō Soseki and Buddhist Discourse on Waka

4 Ambivalence and Abstraction: Literal and Figurative Representations of Reclusion in SKS

5 New Takes on Old Tropes: Mind Over Lament

6 Rarefying the Pine Wind

7 Elegantly Unconfused

7 Conclusion

3 Blossoms before Moss: Medieval Views of Musō Soseki’s Saihōji

1 A Long and Sacred History in Saihōshōja Engi

2 The Temple and the Blossoms

3 Blooms After Death in Shōgaku Kokushishū

4 When the Shōgun was at Saihōji after the Blossoms had Fallen

5 Zen in Bloom in Musō’s Chronology

6 The Musō Renovations: Musō and Medieval Landscape Design

7 Saihōji as Musō Memorial

8 Harmonizing Pure Land and Zen at Saihōji

9 Conclusion

4 Changing Agendas at Musō Soseki’s Tenryūji

1 Tenryūji: From Imperial Residence to Commercial Center

2 Taiheiki’s Tenryūji: Appearance of an Onryō

3 Tenryūji in 1345: Reunification and the Rise of Buddhism

4 Multiple Reconciliations

5 Securing Imperial Support for Tenryūji

6 Enlightening Godaigo and Other Objectives

7 Tying Tenryūji to Ashikaga Takauji in

8 Conclusion

Epilogue



Appendix: Shōgaku Kokushishū

Bibliography

