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INDEX
- Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki Shinjū), 3
- Lowell, Amy, 41
- Manyōshū, ix
- Matsukaze, 56
- Maugham, Somerset, 101–3
- Meiji Restoration, 17–18, 85
- Minase linked-verse, 35–6, 45
- Mirror of the Present (Ima Kagami), 33
- miyabi, 14
- “monkey-music” (sarugaku), 47–8
- Moon Shining Through a Cloud-Rift (Kumo no Taema), 86
- Murasaki, 72–3, 75–9, 82, 85, 94–5, 105
- Narihira, 68
- Narrow Road of Oku (Oku no Hosomichi), 12–13, 42–3
- Natsume Sōseki, 99
- New Collection (Shin Kokinshū), 6, 31–2
- Nō, 7, 47–60, 64–6, 82, 110
- Odyssey, 89–91
- Onitsura, 25
- “pivot-words” (kakekotoba), 4–5, 56–7
- place-names, 6–7
- Po Chü-i, 27
- pornographic literature, 83, 85, 87, 105–6
- Pound, Ezra, 19, 47
- prosody, 3, 20, 26, 31–41, 93, 95
- Proust, Marcel, 75–7, 108
- puns, 4–6
- puppet theatre, 57–66
- Record of Ancient Matters (Kojiki), 31
- renga, 31–7
- Romains, Jules, 107
- Saikaku, 82–4
- Sansom, G. B., 17, 98
- sarugaku, 47–8
- Seami Motokiyo, 48, 53, 56
- Self-Help, 17
- Shakespeare, 1, 5, 18, 52, 68, 94
- Shiki, 15–16
- Shimazaki Tōson, 99
- Sōgi, 35–6
- Sotoba Komachi, 54–5
- suggestion, 7–10, 28–30
- Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari), 10, 23–5, 70–9, 81, 83, 96, 105, 110
- Tale of the Heike (Heike Monogatari), 78–9
- Tale of Tokiaki (Tokiaki Monogatari), 79–81
- Tales of Ise (Ise Monogatari), 68, 83
- Tanizaki Junichirō, 11, 71, 96, 101, 105, 107–9
- tanka, 26, 32, 46, 95
- Thin Snow (Samame-yuki), 11, 96, 107–9
- Tokugawa period, 82
- Treasury of Japan (Nippon Eitaigura), 83–4
- Tsubouchi Shōyō, 92–7, 102
- Tsurayuki, 22–5
- ukiyo, 84
- virtuoso approach to literature, 16, 30
- Waley, Arthur, ix, 1, 27, 47, 49, 70–1
- Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu), 104
- Yeats, W. B., 55, 60, 65
- Yuriwaka, 89, 91
- Zen Buddhism, 9, 28, 39–40, 53–4
