Readings

Required Texts

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

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

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

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

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

Recommended Texts

Buy at Amazon 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

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

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

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

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

Buy at Amazon 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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon ———. "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

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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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 Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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 Buy at Amazon 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

Buy at Amazon 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.

Buy at Amazon 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