Sachiko Kaneko Morrell is retired from her position as East Asian Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis. Robert E. Morrell is Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature and Buddhism at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishu): The Tales of Muju Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism, also published by SUNY Press, and Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report.

• FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgments 1. Winds of Doctrine: The World of Thought and Feeling in Late Kamakura Japan  2. Mujū Ichien’s Mirror for Women (Tsuma kagami, 1300): A Buddhist Vernacular Tract of the Late Kamakura Period 3. Abbess Kakusan and the Kamakura Hōjō 4. Princess Yōdō’s Purple-clad Nuns 5. From Sanctuary to Divorce Temple: Abbess Tenshū and the Later Kitsuregawa Administrators 6. Everyday Life at Matèsugaoka Tōkeiji : Sacred and Secular 7. The "Divorce Temple" in Edo Satirical Verse 8. Meiji through Heisei: Tōkeiji and Rinzai Zen ContinuityAppendixes Chart A.Zen Lineage from Śākyamuni to the TōkeijiChart B.Kakusan’s Relationship to the Hōjō and Adachi Families Chart C.From Ashikaga to the Kitsuregawa AdministratorsChart D.Relationships in the Tōkeiji Succession during the Late Muromachi and Early Edo PeriodsChart E.Tōkeiji Head Abbesses and Acting Abbesses NotesAnnotated Cross-Referenced Index to Major Cited TextsBibliographyIndex