21H.154 | Fall 2022 | Undergraduate

Inventing the Samurai

Lecture Slides

The following lecture slides were utilized during this course. 

Note: There aren’t any lecture slides for sessions 1, 21, and 24–26.

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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 2: History and Mythology
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 3: Overseas Influence and the Imperial State
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 4: Heian, the Era of “Peace and Tranquility”(?)
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 5: Court Culture and Spirituality
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 6: The First Samurai Wars
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 7: The First Samurai Government
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 8: The Ashikaga Shogunate and the Era of Rival Imperial Courts
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 9: From Fires in Kyoto to “Warring States”
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 10: The Unifiers
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 11: An Elizabethan Account of Hideyoshi’s Nephew
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 12: The Last (and Best?) Samurai Government
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 13: The “Forty-Seven Rōnin” Incident as History and Myth
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 14: Pictures and Stories of the Floating World
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 15: Tsuneno’s Journey
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 16: Tsuneno’s Edo
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 17: Samurai Corruption
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 18: “Dream-Besotted” Musui
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 19: The Fall of Tokugawa and Aizu
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Inventing the Samurai, Lecture 20: A Samurai Prince in 19th-Century Massachusetts
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Inventing the Samurai, Lectures 22 and 23: The Hidden Blade

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