А Мещеряков - Герои, творцы и хранители японской старины

57. Ёдзэй, 876–884

Гангё 877

58. Коко, 884–887

Нинна 885

59. Уда, 887–897

Кампё 889

60. Дайго, 897–930

Сётай 898

Энги 901

Энтё 923

61. Судзаку, 930–946

Дзёхэй 931

Тэнгё 938

62. Мураками, 946–967

Тэнряку 947

Тэнтоку 957

Ова 961

Кохо 964

63. Рэйдзэй, 967–969

Анна 968

64. Энъю, 969–984

Тэнроку 970

Тэнъэн 973

Дзёгэн 976

Тэнгэн 978

Эйкан 983

65. Кадзан, 984–986

Канна 985

66. Итидзё, 986-1011

Эйэн 987

Эйсо 989

Сёряку 990

Тётоку 995

Тёхо 999

Канко 1004

67. Сандзё, 1011–1016

Тёва 1012

68. Гоитидзё, 1016–1036

Каннин 1017

Дзиан 1021

Мандзю 1024

Тёгэн 1028

69. Госудзаку, 1036–1045

Тёряку 1037

Тёкю 1040

Кантону 1044

70. Горэйдзэй, 1045–1068

Эйдзё 1046

Тэнги 1053

Кохэй 1058

Дзиряку 1065

71. Госандзё, 1068–1072

Энкю 1069

72. Сиракава, 1072–1086

Дзёхо 1074

Дзёряку 1077

Эйхо 1081

Отоку 1084

The book, Heroes, Creators and Custodians oj Japanese Antiquity, is a series of biographies of the 4th-llth centuries' outstanding Japanese personalities.

Each historical period is represented by persons whose life and work reflect the most typical features of its culture and the psychological changes in personality. Much emphasis is on cultural continuity and mechanisms involved therein.

The chapters of the book are dedicated to an epic hero (Ya-mato Takeru: the Hero-Like Reality of the Character), statesmen (Prince Shotoku: A Statesman Devoted to Buddha, Sugawara Michizane: A Deification Tragedy), poets (Man'yoshu Poets: Poems for Society and a Society for Poems, Ki-no Tsurayuki: A Poet or A Poetaster?), Buddhist monks (Dokyo: The War and Peace of Two Theocracies, Kukai: Superb Calligraphy for Esoteric Policy), Buddhist legend makers and heroes of Buddhist legends (Buddhist Preachers: Wonder Makers), the author of the famous Tale of Genji (Murasaki-shikibu: a Non-Wasted Gift).

Each of the characters in the book made a notable contribution to culture of his country. Culture is understood as a dynamic interaction of soeio-historical and personal factors.

The author shows the turns, often dramatic, in the destinies of his heroes and eventually recreates the psychological background of a respective epoch.

The book analyses the ideas of time and space, life and death, ethic and aesthetic, virtue and sin, oi the human ideal, etc., and details the breakdown of the sanguinal kinship and the evolvement of medieval personality.

The book draws on medieval sources (historical, poetic, prose writings and religious texts). Therefore, one of the major topics of the book is the problem of text (the methods for its generation, functioning and perception). The book maps out approaches to the analysis of Japanese literature as a complex of semantically different texts united by common typological features.