ILLUSTRATIONS
Understatements About This String-Ball of Idle Thoughts
Part I. BLACK HAIR
Chapter 1. “The Mask Is Most Important Always”
Chapter 2. Schematics
Chapter 3. Malignance and Charm
Chapter 4. A Branch of Flowers
Chapter 5. The Dragons of Kasuga
Chapter 6. Sunshine at Midnight
Chapter 7. Perfect Faces
Chapter 8. Aya Kudo and the Zo-onna
Chapter 9. Her Golden Lips Slightly Parteda
Chapter 10. Crossing the Abyss
Chapter 11. What Is Grace?
Chapter 12. Rainbow Skirts
Chapter 13. Jewels in the Darkness
Chapter 14. “She Cannot Do Anything Else”
Chapter 15. Suzuka’s Dressing Room
Chapter 16. “They Just Want to Look in the Mirror”
Chapter 17. “I Sit with My Legs Closed”
Chapter 18. “There’s No Ugly Lady Face”
Chapter 19. The Phallus of Tiresias
Part II. WHITE ARMS
Chapter 20. A Curtain of Mist
Chapter 21. In the Forest
Chapter 22. Sun-Bright Like Swords
Chapter 23. Passing Light
Chapter 24. Who Is the Willow Tree Goddess?
Part III. BEAUTY’S GHOST
Chapter 25. Snow in a Silver Bowl
Chapter 26. Beauty’s Ghost
Chapter 27. Urashima’s Box
Chapter 28. The Decay of the Angel
Part IV. THE MOON MAIDEN GOES HOME
Chapter 29. Sunshine on Silla
Chapter 30. Pine Tree Constancy
Chapter 31. Kagekiyo’s Daughter
Chapter 32. Behind the Rainbow Curtain
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Glossary
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Note on the Illustrations
Note on the Orthography
Acknowledgments
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NOTES OTHERS