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