Bernhard Scheid is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

• 1. Introduction: Japan's Medieval Culture of Secrecy Part 1: Prologue 2. Secrets, Secrecy, and the Study of Religions 3. The Problem of Secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism 4. Myth and Secrecy in Tang-Period Tantric Buddhism Part 2: Japan's Medieval Culture of Secrecy 5. Secrecy in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism 6. Reconsidering the Taxonomy of the "Esoteric" 7. Knowing vs. Owning a Secret 8. Secrecy, Sex and Apocrypha 9. Esotericism in Noh Commentaries and Plays 10. The Elephant in the Room 11. Myths, Rites, and Icons 12. Two Modes of Secrecy Part 3: The Demise of Secrecy 13. When Secrecy Ends 14. Hiding the Shoguns 15. "Esoteric" and "Public"

Bernhard Scheid is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.Mark Teeuwen is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.

• 1. Introduction: Japan's Medieval Culture of Secrecy Part 1: Prologue 2. Secrets, Secrecy, and the Study of Religions 3. The Problem of Secrecy in Indian Tantric Buddhism 4. Myth and Secrecy in Tang-Period Tantric Buddhism Part 2: Japan's Medieval Culture of Secrecy 5. Secrecy in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism 6. Reconsidering the Taxonomy of the "Esoteric" 7. Knowing vs. Owning a Secret 8. Secrecy, Sex and Apocrypha 9. Esotericism in Noh Commentaries and Plays 10. The Elephant in the Room 11. Myths, Rites, and Icons 12. Two Modes of Secrecy Part 3: The Demise of Secrecy 13. When Secrecy Ends 14. Hiding the Shoguns 15. "Esoteric" and "Public"