21H.522 | Fall 2006 | Undergraduate

Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film

Lecture Notes

SES # TOPICS NOTES HANDOUTS
1 Introduction (PDF) (PDF)  
I. Ways of The Warriors
2 Historical/Geographical Overview (PDF) (PDF)  
3 Emergence of the Warrior Ethos (PDF) (PDF)  
4 Zen (PDF) (PDF)  
5 Zen and the Samurai (PDF) (PDF)  
6 Short Exam    
7 Bushidô (PDF) (PDF)  
II. Spiritual and Supernatural Worlds
8 The Forty-Seven Ronin (PDF) (PDF)  
9 The Forty-Seven Ronin (cont.) (PDF)  
10 Ugetsu (PDF)  
11 Medieval Aesthetics (PDF)  
12 Medieval Aesthetics (cont.) (PDF) (PDF)  
13 Zen and the Tea Ceremony (PDF) (PDF)  
14 Christianity (PDF) (PDF) (PDF)
III. Worlds of Pleasure/Worlds of Pain
15 Tokugawa Urban Life (PDF)  
16 Saikaku (PDF) (PDF) (PDF)
17 Chikamatsu (PDF)  
18 Ecstasy and Self Destruction (PDF)  
19 Women under Feudalism (PDF)  
20 Saikaku’s Amorous Woman/Mizoguchi’s Tragic Heroine (PDF) (PDF)
IV. Reassessing The Samurai
21 Oharu    
22 Repression and Protest in History and Film (PDF)  
23 Rebellions (PDF)  
24 Failed Samurai (PDF) (PDF)  
25 Failed Samurai (cont.) (PDF)  
26 Conclusion; Review for Final (PDF)  
  Final Exam    

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