Readings

Required Texts

Amazon logo Sadler, Arthur, tr. The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2005. ISBN: 9780766193369.

Amazon logo McCullough, Helen Craig, eds. Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology. Stanford, CA: Standford University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780804719605.

Amazon logo Saikaku, Ihara. Five Women Who Loved Love. Boston, MA: Tuttle Publishing, 1955. ISBN: 9780804801843.

Amazon logo Kokichi, Katsu. Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780816510351.

Amazon logo Suzuki, Daisetz T. Zen and Japanese Culture. New York, NY: MJF Books, 1997. ISBN: 9781567311242.

Recommended Texts

Amazon logo Souyri, Pierre Francois. The World Turned Upside Down. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780231118422.


SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction Sadler, pp. 22-262.
I. Ways of The Warriors
2 Historical/Geographical Overview

Amazon logo Duus, Peter. "Feudalism." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan.   Vol. 2. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 263-267. ISBN: 9780870116209.

Amazon logo Shinoda, Minoru. "Kamakura History (1185-1333)." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 3. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 169-172. ISBN: 9780870116209.

Amazon logo Colcutt, Martin. "Muromachi History (1333-1568)." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 3. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 172-177. ISBN: 9780870116209.

Amazon logo Elison, George. "Azuchi-Momoyama History (1568-1600)." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 3. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987. ISBN: 9780870116209.

Amazon logo Hall, John. "Edo History (1600-1868)." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 3. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 185-192. ISBN: 9780870116209.

3 Emergence of the Warrior Ethos Butler, Kenneth Dean. "The Heike Monogatari and the Japanese Warrior Ethic." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 29 (1969): 93-108.
4 Zen Suzuki, Chapters 1, 2, and 4.
5 Zen and the Samurai Suzuki, Chapters 5 and 6.
6

Short Exam

7 Bushidô

Amazon logo Inazo, Nitobe. "On Bushido." In Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts. Edited by Donn F. Draeger and Robert W. Smith. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha, 1997, pp. 88-90. ISBN: 9780870114366.

Amazon logo Colcutt, Martin. "Bushido." In Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 1. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 221-223. ISBN: 9780870116209.

Yamaga, Sokō. "The Rediscovery of Confucianism" in Ryusaku Tsunoda, Em. Sources of Japanese Tradition.  Edited by Theodore DeBary and Donald Keene. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1958, pp. 384-390.

Amazon logo Yamamoto, Tsunetomo. "Hagakure: The Way of Death." Sources of Japanese History. Edited by David John Lu. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1974, pp. 250-252. ISBN: 9780070389021.

II. Spiritual and Supernatural Worlds
8 The Forty-Seven Ronin

Amazon logo Ikegami, Eiko. "The Vendetta of the Forty-seven Samurai." In The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. 223-240. ISBN: 9780674868090.

Amazon logo Sato, Hiroaki. "The Forty-Seven Samurai: An Eyewitnees Account with Arguments" In Legends of the Samurai. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1995, pp. 304-338. ISBN: 9780879516192.

9 The Forty-seven Ronin (cont.)

 

10 Ugetsu

Amazon logo Ueda, Akinari. "The House Amid the Thickets." In Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Translated by Leon M. Zolbrod. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1974, pp. 121-132. ISBN: 9780048231161.

Amazon logo ———. "The Lust of the White Serpent." In Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Translated by Leon M. Zolbrod. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1974, pp. 161-184. ISBN: 9780048231161.

11 Medieval Aesthetics McCullough, pp. 1-26, 272-339, and 377-392.
12 Medieval Aesthetics (cont.) McCullough, pp. 393-421 and 472-551.
13 Zen and the Tea Ceremony

Suzuki, Chapters 8-10.

14 Christianity

Amazon logo Lu, David John. "The Japanese in European Eyes." In Sources of Japanese History. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1974, pp. 193-196. ISBN: 9780070389021.

Amazon logo Elison, George. "How a Japanese Lay Monk and a Kirishitan Iruman Held a Debate on Religion." In Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974, pp. 338-348. ISBN: 9780674199613.

Amazon logo Morris, Ivan. "The Japanese Messiah." In The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975, pp. 143-179. ISBN: 9780030108112.

III. Worlds of Pleasure/Worlds of Pain
15 Tokugawa Urban Life

Saikaku, pp. 3-51.

Amazon logo Crihfield, Liza. "Yoshiwara." In Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 8. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 349-351. ISBN: 9780870116209.

16 Saikaku
Saikaku, pp. 55-120.
17 Chikamatsu

Amazon logo Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. "The Love Suicides at Sonezaki" in Early Modern Japanese Literature. Edited by Haruo Shirane. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2002, pp. 242-259. ISBN: 9780231109901.

Amazon logo Dunn, Charles. "Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724)." In Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 1. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 275-276. ISBN: 9780870116209.

18 Ecstasy and Self Destruction Amazon logo Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. "The Love Suicides at Amijima." In Major Plays of Chikamatsu, Translated by Donald Keene. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 387-425. ISBN: 9780231074155.
19 Women under Feudalism

Ackroyd, Joyce. "Women in Feudal Japan." Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 8, 3rd series (1959): 31-68.

Amazon logo Lu, David John. "Confucian Justice and the Wife of a Murdered Husband: A Criminal Case from the Year 1711." In Sources of Japanese History. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1974, pp. 243-247. ISBN: 9780070389021.

Ekken, Kaibara. "The Greater Learning for Women." In Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese. Yokohama, Japan: Kelly and Walsh, 1891, pp. 454-463.

20 Saikaku's Amorous Woman/Mizoguchi's Tragic Heroine Saikaku, pp. 121-210.
IV. Reassessing The Samurai
21 Oharu
22 Repression and Protest in History and Film Amazon logo Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. "Gonza the Lancer." In Major Plays of Chikamatsu. Translated by Donald Keene. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 270-312. ISBN: 9780231074155.
23 Rebellions

Amazon logo Aoki, Michiko Y., and Dardess, Margaret B, eds. "Sogo of Sakura." In As the Japanese See It. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1981, pp. 1-4. ISBN: 9780824807603.

Amazon logo Morris, Ivan. "Save the People." In The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975, pp. 180-216. ISBN: 9780030108112.

Norman, pp. 341-354.

24 Failed Samurai Kokichi, pp. 1-155.
25 Failed Samurai (cont.)
26 Conclusion; Review for Final
Final Exam