Introduction

1. Allegory, Symbol, and Allegoresis

Brief Definitions of Allegory and Symbol

The Medieval Understanding of Language

Allegorical Interpretation

Triggers for Interpretation

2. Allegory and Allegoresis in Premodern Japanese Literature

Political Allegory and Allegoresis

Religious Allegory and Allegoresis

Three Forms of Allegoresis in Kamakura Commentaries

3. The Commentary Tradition

The Development of a Commentary Tradition

A Brief Outline of Tameaki's Commentaries

The Muromachi Response

4. Textual Triggers

The Kokin waka shu and Its Preface

The Ise monogatari Text

Narihira as the Man of Old

Triggers for Interpretation in Ise monogatari

Heian and Kamakura Readers' Interpretive Principles

5. Extratextual Triggers

The Development of the Rokujo as a Poetry Family

The Mikohidari Attitude Toward the Development of the Master-Disciple System

The Teika Forgeries

6. Fujiwara no Tameaki and the Kamakura Commentaries

Tameaki's Poetic Affiliations

Tameaki and the Rokujo and Ietaka Factions

Tameaki's Audience

7. Basic Religious Concepts Underlying Tameakis Commentaries

"Wild Words and Ornate Phrases": The Sin of Poetry

Expedient Means and the Lotus Sutra

Nondualism, Waka as Dharani, and Poets as Bodhisattvas

Honji suijaku

The Magical Efficacy of Language and Early Uses of Paronomasia

Paronomasia in Medieval Japanese Taoism

Paronomasia and the Chroniclers of Mount Hiei

The Culture of Secret Transmission in Medieval Japan

Shingon Tachikawa

Ryobu Shinto

8. Problems of Authority

The Development of the Waka Kanjo Ceremony

Esoteric Buddhist Initiation Ceremonies and the Waka Kanjo

Tameaki and the Imperial Enthronement Kanjo

Authoritative Sources for the Commentaries

An Etiology for Tameaki's Commentaries

Sumiyoshi Daimyojin as the Deity of Waka Poetry

Tamatsushima Myojin as the Female Deity of Waka Poetry

Narihira as Okina

Narihira's Esoteric Education

9. Tameaki-Affiliated Commentaries (Part I)

Waka chiken shu

Kokin waka shu jo kikigaki

10. Tameaki-Affiliated Commentaries (Part II)

Gyokuden jinpi no maki

The Elusive "Gyokuden" and "Akone no ura kuden"

Waka Kokin kanjo no maki

11. Reizei and Nijo Commentaries After Tameaki

The Development of Historical Allegoresis

The Reizei School Ise monogatari sho

An Analysis of Content

Ise monogatari zuino

Conflating the Paths of Poetry and Eroticism

Internalization of Kami and Buddhas

Conclusion

Reference Matter

Bibliography

Works in Japanese

Works in English

References to "Ise monogatari" Episodes

Index of First Lines

Index of Subjects

Susan Blakeley Klein is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Irvine.