
shukueki (post stations) 61–62,
329–331, 332
shukyo (religion), as term 188.
See also religion
shunga (spring prints) 296
Shunzei no Musume 26
shurikenjutsu (dagger throwing)
166
Shushi school of philosophy
224–225, 229
sickle throwing (kusarigama-
jutsu) 166
Siebol, Philipp Franz von 32,
44, 236–237
signals and identification in war
180–181
silk trade 128
silver coins 126
sincerity (makoto) 32, 224
sliding doors (fusuma) 292, 321,
344
Soami (Shinso) 44, 311
sobashu (chamberlains) 97, 98
sobayonin (grand chamberlain)
97, 99
Socho 251, 252
social obligation. See favor and
debt (on and giri)
social protest 117–119
society and social structure
108–119
early modern (overview)
111–115
farmers and peasants in
110–111
hierarchical class system
under Tokugawa 13
medieval (overview)
109–111
warriors in 109–110,
112–113
women in 115–117
soga (feast songs) 269
Soga monogatari (Tale of the
Soga brothers) 254
Soga Shohaku 44, 295
Sogi 44, 251, 252
sohei (warrior-monks) 176,
176–177
solar calendar 355
Somoku zusetsu (plant atlas)
(Iinuma) 31
Sonezaki shinju (Love suicide at
Sonezaki) (Chikamatsu) 280
sonno joi (“revere the Emperor,
expel the barbarians”) 89
soroban (abacus) 239
sorobun (epistolary writing style)
248–249
sosen (copper coin) 125
soshaban (masters of shogunal
ceremony) 97, 98
Sotatsu (Tawaraya Sotatsu)
44–45, 293–294
Soto Zen school of Buddhism
25, 208
Southeast Asia, trade with
128–129
southern barbarian (namban)
lacquerware 302
southern barbarian (namban)
medicine 236–237
southern barbarian (namban)
paintings 292–293
southern barbarian (namban)
trade 128
Southern Court. See Northern
and Southern Courts period
southern-school painting
(nanga) 24, 294
space (ma) 268
spearmanship (sojutsu)
162–163, 163
spies. See ninja arts (nunjitsu)
spinning wheel (itoguruma) 352
sports and games 353–355
Spring, Eve of the First Day of
(Setsubun) 357
spring prints (shunga) 296
staffs (shaku) 167
staggered shelves (chigaidana)
320–321
state and religion, connection
between 189
stewards. See jito (land stewards)
stirrups 156
storytellers 281–282
stoves 349
street entertainers and story-
tellers 281–282
string instruments 266–267
succession, imperial 6–7, 27,
88–89
succession, shogunal 8
Sugita Gempaku 45, 237
sugoroku (game) 353
suibokuga (ink painting) 26, 291
suicide, ritual (seppuku or hara-
kiri) 358
47 Ronin Incident 146
warrior values and 143,
148–149
suieijutsu (swimming) 156
Suika (Suiga) Shinto school of
philosophy 50, 193, 226
Sumida River 56, 56
sumi-e (ink pictures) 291
Sumiyoshi Shrine 201, 313
Sumiyoshi-style (sumiyoshi-
zukuri) shrines 313
sumo wrestling 353
Sumpu (Shizuoka) 79
superior persons (kinshi) 224
surveyors 36, 37, 45, 239
Susanoo no Mikoto (deity) 157,
198
sutra repository (kyozo) 310
Suzuki Harunobu 296, 297
Suzuki Shosan 45, 205
“sweeping away the demons”
(oni harai) 357
swimming (suieijutsu) 156
sword drawing (iaijutsu) 161
swordfighting (kendo/kenjutsu)
37, 50, 157–161
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