Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Transliteration and Abbreviations -- Introductio -- Chapter One: Ritual Poetry in the Court -- Chapter Two: The Mythology of Death and the Niiname-sai -- Chapter Three: The Liminal Period of Temporary t-nshrinement -- Chapter Four: The Poetry of the Mogari no Miya -- Chapter Five: Mythistory, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Marriage -- Conclusion: Imagining History -- Glossary of Japanese Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Man'yoshu Poems Cited -- Index