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CONTENTS of the book The Power of the Bow by Johannes Haubner:
Preface
I. THE BOW, HEAVENLY WEAPON IN THE MYTHOLOGY OF SHINTŌ
Amaterasu and a quiver with a thousand arrows Susanoo and the whizzing arrow The divine messengers and the heavenly bows and arrows Ame no Futotama no Mikoto and Ame no Koyane no Mikoto Jimmu Tennō, Japan's first "Heavenly Sovereign" Yamato Takeru no Mikoto, the pioneer of the Yamato Kingdom Jingū Kōgō, a regent and shaman woman Ōjin Tennō, the sovereign with the congenital string pad
II. THE BOW AND ITS MEANING IN CONFUCIANISM AND BUDDHISM
Confucianism and Archery in Popular Education Ake Tamanosuke, Guan Di and the ideals of Confucianism
Buddhism and Archery Siddhartha Gautama and the arrows of insight Kannon, goddess of mercy Benzai-ten, goddess of poetry and music Aizen Myō-ō, guardian of love and lust Shōmen Kongō, king of ignorance and malice Hachiman, god of war and protection
III. THE BOW, WEAPON OF WARRIORS AND HEROES
Yūryaku Tennō (5th century) and the immigrants from Korea The Soga Clan and the spread of new ideologies Empress Suiko (593-628), Prince Shōtoku (574-622) and Buddhism From a state dominated by local clans to a centralized state
The Expansion of the Yamato Realm in the Nara and Heian Periods Kamitsukenu Katana (7th century) Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758-811) Fun'ya no Watamaro (765-823)
The Imperial Court Moves from Nara to Heian-kyō Fujiwara no Toshiyuki (9th century) Minamoto no Tsunemoto (894-961) Minamoto no Mitsunaka (912-997) Taira no Masakado (? - 940) and his ghostly troops Minamoto no Yoriyoshi (998 to about 1082) Minamoto no Yoshiie (about 1039-1106)
The Rise of the Provincial Warrior Class Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) Minamoto no Tameyoshi (1096-1156) and Yoshitomo (1123-1160) Minamoto no Tametomo (1139-1170) Minamoto no Yoshihira (1141-1160)
The Power Struggle between Genji and Heike The main opponents in the Genpei War (1180–1185) Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159-1189) Minamoto no Yorimasa and the first battle of Uji River (1180) Kajiwara Kagesue, Sasaki Takatsuna and the second battle of Uji River (1184) Taira no Tadanori (1144-1184) Taira no Atsumori and Kumagai no Naozane in the battle of Ichi no Tani (1184) Miura no Daisuke Yoshiaki (1093-1181) Kaneko no Juro Ietada (1138-1216) Wada no Kataro Yoshimori (1147-1213) The Battle of Yashima (1185) The Satō brothers Tsugunobu and Tadanobu Nasu no Yoichi and his legendary shot at a fan The destruction of the Taira in the naval battle of Dan no Ura (1185) Taira no Tomomori (1152-1185) Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147-1199), first shōgun of the Kamakura Shogunate Hatakeyama Shigetada (1164-1205) Tomoe Gozen (1157-1247), an exceptional female warrior Hangaku Gozen (13th century)
The Minamoto Clan at the Height of Power Hōjō Tokimasa (1138-1215) and his daughter Masako (1157-1225)
The Decline of the Kamakura Shogunate Nitta Yoshisada (1301-1338) Kusunoki Masashige (1294-1336) Kusunoki Masatsura (1326-1348)
The Period of the Warring States and the Reunification of the Country Takeda Katsuyori (1546-1582) Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1535-1598) Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) The most important generals of the Japanese Middle Ages
IV. THE BOW IN LITERATURE AND ARTS
Ancient Narratives and Tales Ariwara no Narihira and the Ise monogatari Prince Genji, the Japanese Don Juan Fujiwara no Hidesato (Tawara no Tōda) and the centipede Minamoto no Yorimitsu and his fight against the demons Minamoto no Yorimasa and the monster Nue Tamamo no Mae, the fox spirit Yuriwaka Daijin, the Japanese Odysseus The revenge of the forty-seven rōnin Minamoto no Tametomo in Bakin's novel "Yumiharizuki" Bakin's characters Kusunoki Koma-hime, Taye and Tajikichi The dog warriors in Bakin's novel "Hakkenden"
The Bow in Plays The Nō plays The Kabuki The Kyōgen
Remarkable Depictions of Bows in Ukiyo-e The late revenge of the artist Iwasa Matabei Frogs and fruits with the bow
V. BOWMAKING AND ARCHERY SCHOOLS
The making and mystical meaning of bows and arrows Traditional archery schools The Ogasawara ryū The Heki ryū and other archery schools
VI. THE BOW DURING THE EDO AND EARLY MEIJI PERIODS
The Rise of Edo to a Metropolis Ōta Dōkan (1432-1486), the founder of Edo The Tokugawa Shogunate / the Edo period
The Changing Image of the Samurai in the 19th Century Hunting with the bow Archery as a leisure activity Archery in the entertainment districts The bow at parades and festivals
The Bow between Competition and Ceremony Inuomono - the dog hunt Yabusame and Kasagake - mounted archery Horobiki Competitions at Sanjūsangendō Ceremonial archery competitions Bow rituals without specific targets: Meigen, Hikime, Yumitori Shiki Japan's "sacred bows"
The Myth is still Alive
Appendices Timeline of Japan's History References Image Rights Bibliography Short Biographies of Woodblock Artists Index of Persons http://powerofbow.com/
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