Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xi
I The Beginnings: Prehistory to 1333 3
1 Zen Culture and the CounterMind 5
2 The Prelude to Zen Culture 15
3 The Rise of Japanese Buddhism 27
4 The Chronicles of Zen 38
5 Zen Archery and Swordsmanship 51
II The Age of High Culture: Ashikaga (1333-1573) 63
6 The Great Age of Zen 65
7 Zen and the Landscape Garden 76
8 The Stone Gardens of Zen 89
9 Zen and the Ink Landscape 99
10 The Zen Aesthetics of Japanese Architecture 113
11 The No Theater 126
III The Rise of Popular Zen Culture: 1573 to the
Present 137
12 Bourgeois Society and Later Zen 139
13 The Tea Ceremony 148
14 Zen Ceramic Art 160
15 Zen and Haiku 172
16 Private Zen: Flowers and Food 189
17 The Lessons of Zen Culture 198
Japanese Chronology 205
Glossary 209
Bibliography 217
Permissions 22