List of Illustrations | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Conventions | p. xi |
Introduction: The Lay of the Land | p. 1 |
Faces of Shotoku: Cultic Identities through Time | |
Ways to Tell a Sacred Life: Hagiographic Imagination in Medieval Japan | p. 23 |
The Lives of the Prince: Shotoku across Asia | p. 47 |
Japanese Spirit: A New Buddha for Troubled Times | p. 70 |
Mapping Shotoku's Tale: Cultic Identities in Place | |
The Birth of a Legend: Inscribing Shotoku at Shitenno-ji and Horyu-ji | p. 107 |
Siting Shotoku: Structuring Narrative at Horyu-ji | p. 127 |
Epilogue: Afterlives | p. 171 |
Appendix: List of Selected Events in the Life of the Legendary Shotoku | p. 179 |
Notes | p. 189 |
Bibliography | p. 217 |
Index | p. 241 |
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |