Premodern Japanese History and Religion

Emperor, Aristocracy, and the Ritsuryo State: Court Politics in Nara

(JAPAN EMERGING: PREMODERN HISTORY TO 1850)

Changing the Calendar: Royal Political Theology and the Suppression of the Tachibana Naramaro Conspiracy of 757

(JAPANESE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES)

Research Note -- A Japanese Curriculum of 757 (with Zhao Lu)

(PMJS PAPERS)

Performative Loci of the Imperial Edicts in Nara Japan, 749-70

(ORAL TRADITION)

Performative Loci of Shoku Nihongi Edicts 749-770

(pdf format)

Middle Chinese, Old Japanese, and the Senmyou

(pdf format)

Review of Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan, by Michael Como

(PMJS PAPERS)

Review of The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons in Seventh-Century Japan, by Donald F. McCallum

(JAPANESE STUDIES)

Review of Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan, by William Wayne Farris

(PMJS PAPERS)

Review of Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan, by Herman Ooms

Review of Nagaoka: Japan's Forgotten Capital, by Ellen Van Goethem

HACHIMAN DAIBOSATSU -- THE SHINTO GOD OF WAR?

Usa Hachimangu

Miyazaki Hachimangu

Tamukeyama Hachimangu

Metamorphosis of a Deity: The Image of Hachiman in 'Yumi Yawata'

(MONUMENTA NIPPONICA)

Hachiman River -- Religious Meanings of the Hachiman Cult: Releasing Living Beings in Hojogawa

The Hachiman Cult and the Dokyo Incident

(MONUMENTA NIPPONICA)

The Political Meaning of the Hachiman Cult in Ancient and Early Medieval Japan

(DISSERTATION -- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)

Correspondence with A.N.Meshcheryakov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences, Moscow

(MONUMENTA NIPPONICA)