Note on Names and Romanization -- Note on Place Names -- Hakata and Dazaifu : Crossroads, Boundaries, and Identity Formation in Ancient Kyushu / Bruce L. Batten -- Michizane, Tenjin, and Dazaifu / Robert Borgen -- Zen in Northern Kyushu / Nobuyoshi Yamabe -- The Hakata Merchant's World : Cultural Networks in a Centre of Maritime Trade / Andrew Cobbing -- Chanoyu in Hakata : Zen, Karamono and the Reception of Tea Ceremony / Kazushige Horimoto -- Fictocritical Momentum : Yamakasa Masculinity as Hakata Tradition / Tim Cross -- Revisiting the Globalism of the Periphery : "Asianism" in Fukuoka / Reiko Ogawa -- Matsumoto Jiichiro and Fukuoka / Ian Neary -- Traditional Craft Industries in Fukuoka Prefecture / Yasushi Yonemitsu -- Staging the Local and Sacramental : Yamakasa as New Noh / Tim Cross.