Introduction to Zen matters / Pamela D. Winfield and Steven Heine -- Thy rod and thy staff they discomfort me : Zen staffs as implements of instruction / Steven Heine -- Materializing the Zen monastery / Pamela D. Winfield -- Form and function : tea bowls and the problem of Zen in chanoyu / Morgan Pitelka -- Prayer beads in Soto Zen / Michaela Mross -- The importance of imports : Ingen's material culture at Manpukuji / Patricia J. Graham -- Visual culture in Japan's imperial Buddhist convents : the making of devotional objects as expressions of faith and practice / Patricia Fister -- Golden robe or rubbish robe? Interpretations of the transmitted robe in Tokugawa period Zen Buddhist thought / Diane E. Riggs -- The Zen of rags / Paula Arai -- Zen sells Zen things : meditation supply, right livelihood, and Buddhist retail / Gregory P.A. Levine -- Sino-Japanese glossary.