Pre-Tokugawa:
                                                                                  Names
Kami (Shintô deity)                                                    Sugawara no Michizane
Mono no aware (sensitivity)                                        Murasaki Shikibu
Kana                                                                          Sei Shônagon
Kojiki                                                                         Amida
Yayoi                                                                         Amaterasu
Chônin (townspeople)                                                 Tokugawa Ieyasu
Bushidô (the way of the warrior)                                  Saichô
Giri/ninjô (duty/personal feeling)
 
The Five Confucian Relationships
The Four Tokugawa Social Classes
 
Post-Tokugawa

Slogans:                                                                                               Names:

Sonnô jôi (Revere the Emperor/Expel the barbarian)                           Watsuji Tetsurô
Fukoku kyôhei (Rich country/strong army)                                           Tanizaki Jun’ichirô
Bunmei kaika (Civilization and enlightenment)                                       Admiral Perry
                                                                                                           General MacArthur
                                                                                                           Fukuzawa Yukichi

Eras: Tokugawa (Edo), Meiji, Taishô, Shôwa, Heisei

Terms:
SCAP                                                                   koseki (family registry)
Honne/tatemae (true/façade)                                  ijime (bullying)
Uchi /soto (inner/outer)                                          karôshi (death from overwork)
Ie (house/family/home)                                           Ministry of Education (Mombushô)
Hibakusha (A-Bomb Victim)                                  Burakumin
Kyôiku mama (Education Mama)                           Ainu
OL (Office Lady)                                                   Wa (harmony)
Juku (cram school)                                                 Amae (dependence)
Manga (“comics”)                                                  Nihonjinron (Essays on Japanese-ness)
Kikokushijo (“returnees”)                                       kokutai (National Polity)
“Comfort Women”                                                 Imperial Rescript on Education
genkan (entry hall)                                                  LDP (Liberal Democratic Party)
tanshi funin (single posting)                                      furusato (one’s old home)
rites of passage                                                      OBon (Festival of Souls—in Summer)
Butsudan (Family Buddhist Altar)                            Yoshi (adopted son-in-law)
 
 

EXAM FORMAT:  Similar to Midterm but with more time.  Identification of terms and names will include items from the first of the term (as indicated above).  Essay topics will come from your post-midterm reading.  Be able to identify the central topic and main conclusions of the chapters in Sugimoto’s book AND in the following readings from the course pack:

Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, “Aguri”
Watsuji Tetsuro’s “The Family as Ethical System”
Kojima Nobuo, “American School”
Hein & Selden’s discussion of “war etiquette”
Roger Goodman, “The Cultural ‘Problems’ of Kikokushijo,”
Tobin’s “Introduction” to  Re-made in Japan

Read over the questions assigned for homework.
If you have questions, please email me: copeland@artsci.wustl.edu.