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Mirror
genre, 51–52; 
eyewitness in, 82, 130, 131; on false 
speech, 78–82; and flexibility of 
Mirror
genre, 82, 83; and 
The Great Mirror
, 
58–59, 59n, 61, 66–67, 69–70, 73–74; 
karma in, 65–66, 72, 73, 78, 83, 103, 
104, 222; language selection in, 74, 82; 
nostalgia in, 68, 69, 102, 109, 235; 
postface in, 264–65; preface in, 59, 61, 
63–64, 65–67, 68, 104; received 
narrative on, 17; setting in, 63–65, 82; 
and social disorder, 29, 35, 50–51, 52, 
62n, 83; and 
The Tale of Genji
, 45, 62, 
66, 67n, 79–81, 128, 228–29; text 
details, 34
New Tales
(Ima monogatari) (Nobuzane), 
82n
Nichiren, 231n
Nihongi
(Chronicles of Japan), 76, 123, 
277n
Nihon kōki
(Subsequent Records of 
Japan), 5
Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku
(The 
True Record of Emperor Montoku of 
Japan), 5
Nihon ryōiki
(Record of Miraculous 
Events of Japan) (Kyōkai), 25
Nihon sandai jitsuroku
(True Record of 
Three Reigns in Japan), 5
Nijō (emperor), 62
Nijō Tameie, 201n
Nijō Tameuji, 191
Nijō Yoshimoto, 238, 255, 258. See also 
The Clear Mirror
Ninmyō (emperor), 112
Nishio Yōtarō, 107n
nō
drama, 136, 282
Nomori no kagami
. See 
The Mirror of the 
Watchman in the Fields

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normalization of violence, 111–13
Northern Expedition (1189), 211, 215
nostalgia: in 
The Clear Mirror
, 264–66; 
in 
The Great Mirror
, 109, 225; in 
The 
Mirror of the Watchman in the Fields
, 
235–36; in 
The New Mirror
, 68, 69, 102, 
109, 235; 
The Water Mirror
on, 91–92, 
101, 102, 109, 187
Notable Tales Old and New
(Kokon 
chomonjū) (Narisue), 115, 116, 138, 142, 
166–68, 195
Ōe no Asatsuna, 167
official histories, 4–6, 7–8, 17n, 
39, 246
Ogawa Takeo, 143–44, 168, 202n
Ogawa Toyō, 103n
Ōjin (emperor), 111
Ōkagami
. See 
The Great Mirror
Okamoto Zentetsu, 267n
Okanoya kanpakuki
, 11n
Ōki Masayoshi, 68–69, 72
Ōmori Kitayoshi, 240n, 260n, 261n
One-Volume Sutra on the Genji
(Genji 
ippon kyō) (Chōken), 34, 75, 77–78, 81
Ōnin War (1467–77), 239
Onna fūzoku tamakagami
(Jeweled 
Mirror of Manners for Women), 277
On the Spring View in Hangzhou
(Hangzhou chunwang) (Bai Juyi), 178
orality, 48, 74, 134
ordering the past, 4, 28–29; and 
cosmological principles, 30; in 
The 
Great Mirror
, 29, 46–47, 103, 104; and 
historical consciousness, 29; and 
Kamakura 
bakufu
, 30; limitations of 
karma for, 103–4; in 
The Mirror of the 
Gods
, 29, 270–71; in 
The Tale of the 
Heike
, 252–54. 
See also
cosmological 
principles; social disorder
Otagiri Fumihiro, 146n, 156n, 191n
Oyamada Kazuo, 93n
Oyler, Elizabeth, 84n, 85n, 133, 
174n, 213
Ozaki Isamu, 115n
past. 
See
continuities with past; mirror 
metaphor; nostalgia; past as object of 
knowledge
past as object of knowledge, 169–73, 196, 
225
Perkins, George, 258n, 263, 265n
The Pillow Book
(Makura no sōshi), 133–34
place. 
See
setting
Plums and Pines
. See