Between and beyond centers and peripheries / Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens
Part I: Locating political centers and peripheries
From female sovereign to mother of the nation: women and government in the Heian period / Fukutō Sanae with Takeshi Watanabe
Court and provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira / Joan R. Piggott
Kugyō and Zuryō: center and periphery in the era of Fujiwara no Michinaga / G. Cameron Hurst III - Part II: Shifting categories in literature and the arts
The way of the literati: Chinese learning and literary practice in mid-Heian Japan / Ivo Smits
Terrains of text in mid-Heian court culture / Edward Kamens
The Buddhist transformation of Japan in the ninth century: the case of Eleven-Headed Kannon / Samuel C. Morse
Part III: Establishing new religious spheres
Scholasticism, exegesis, and ritual practice: on renovation in the history of Buddhist writing in the early Heian period / Ryūichi Abé
Institutional diversity and religious integration: the establishment of temple networks in the Heian age / Mikael Adolphson
The archeology of anxiety: an underground history of Heian religion / D. Max Moerman
Part IV: Negotiating domestic peripheries
Famine, climate, and faming in Japan, 670-1100 / William Wayne Farris
Life of commoners in the provinces: the Owari no gebumi of 988 / Charlotte von Verschuer
Lordship interdicted: Taira no Tadatsune and the limited horizons of warrior ambition / Karl Friday
Part V: Placing Heian Japan in the Asian world
Cross-border traffic on the Kyushu coast, 794-1086 / Bruce L. Batten
Jōjin's travels from center to center (with some periphery in between) / Robert Borgen.