17 (W)	Introduction to the Floating World
22 (M)	Beginning Before Bashô   The uninterestingness of the history of old haikai may make you yawn, and feel as if you are eating straw, but that is just what is necessary….                                                                                                                    Shiki Read: “Introduction,” The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, pp. 9-30 Recommended:  Donald Keene, World Within Walls, pp.  11-69 (on reserve)
24 (W)	Into the Magic with Matsuo Bashô: From Frogs to Monkeys  Read: Continue “Introduction,” pp. 30-49; Makoto Ueda, "Basho On the Art of Haiku" in Literary and Art  Theories in Japan (on reserve and a copy of the chapter is available in the ANELL office for individual photocopying)  Recommended: Keene, World Within Walls, pp. 71-122
29 (M)	Narrow Road to the Deep North—the Beginning   Read: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, pp. 97-119   One-Page Discussion Assignment:    Select a haiku from The Narrow Road and describe why it appeals to you.
31 (W)	Narrow Road to the Deep North—the Conclusion   Read: Finish The Narrow Road

 

5 (M)	Other Haiku Poets Chiyo-ni Read: Chiyo-ni: A Woman Haiku Master, pp. 25-219 Recommended:  Makoto Ueda,  The path of flowering thorn : the life and poetry of Yosa Buson (on reserve) Nobuyuki Yuasa, The year of my life : a translation of Issa's Oraga Haru (on reserve) One-Page Discussion Assignment:  Select a haiku from Chiyo-ni’s collected works and describe why it appeals to you.
7 (W)	From Nuns to Prostitutes: The Floating World of Love Read: Howard Hibbett, “Genroku” in The Floating World in Japanese Fiction,pp. 3-35 (On reserve and also available for copying in the ANELL Office.) “Seijuro from Himeji ,” in The Life of an Amorous Woman, pp. 55-76
12 (M)	Ihara Saikaku and Women in Love Read: “The Almanac Maker’s Tale,” in Amorous Woman, pp. 76-99             And, “Gengobei, Mountain of Love,” pp. 100-118 ****Essay One is Due Today*****
14 (W)	Women in Love, Part 2  Read: The Life of an Amorous Woman, pp. 121-208
19 (M)	“The Life of Oharu”—Mizoguchi Kenji interprets Ihara Saikaku
21 (W)	Men in Love Read: The Great Mirror of Manly Love, selections, pp. 1-45; 51-62; 227-253  (On reserve in the library and also copy available in the ANELL Office.)
26 (M)	For Love of Duty  Read: Tales of Samurai Honor, selections, pp. 10-20; 43-48; 65-67; 85-88; 105-108; 115-116 (On reserve in the library and also copy available in the ANELL Office.) One-Page Discussion Assignment: Select one of the episodes in Tales of Samurai Honor and describe your reaction to the story.  Did you find it humorous, tragic, realistic, etc.?  What do you think of the narrator’s perspective?  Why did this story appeal to you?  Or not?
28 (W)	For Love of Money  Read:  The Life of an Amorous Woman, pp. 211-263

 
 

5 (M)	Midterm Exam
7 (W)	Love on Stage Read: Donald Shively, “The Social Environment of Tokugawa Kabuki,” in Studies in Kabuki, pp. 1-61 (On reserve in the library and also copy available in the ANELL Office.) Recommended: World Within Walls, pp. 230-243
12-16	Spring Break
19 (M)	Chikamatsu Monzaemon—Dying for Love  Read: “Introduction,” “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki,” and “Appendices”in Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, pp. 1-56; 209-215
21 (W)	Double Suicide—the film Masahiro Shinoda’s version of “The Love Suicides at Amijima”  Read: “The Love Suicides at Amijima” in Four Major Plays, pp. 172-208
26 (M)	Love Suicides at Amijima  Recommended: World Within Walls, pp. 244-274 ****Essay Two is Due Today*****
28 (W)	Chushingura—Dying for Honor  Read: “Introduction” and Acts I-VI in Chûshingura, pp. 1-103  Recommended: World Within Walls, pp. 275-299

 

 
 
 

2  (M)	Chushingura, Part 2  Read: Acts VII-XI Recommended: Roger Ames, "Bushido: Mode or Ethic" (copy available in ANELL Office)
4  (W)	Film: Chûshingura (1962), directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
9 (M)	For Love of Ghosts: Ueda Akinari Read: “Homecoming” in Tales of Moonlight and Rain, pp. 3-19 (On reserve and a copy available for copying in the ANELL Office.) Recommended: World Within Walls, pp.371-395
11 (W)	Snaky Women   Read: “Bewitched” in Tales of Moonlight and Rain, pp. 20-52   STRONGLY Recommended: “The Eternal Prisoner Under the Thunder Peak Pagoda” in   Traditional Chinese Stories (on reserve)
16 (M)	“Ugetsu Monogatari”—Mizoguchi Kenji’s version
18 (W)	Gesaku Fiction—from funny books to didactic primers  Read: “An Annotated Translation of Portions of Ukiyoburo” in Robert Leutner, Shikitei Sanba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction, pp. 137-192  (Copy available in Olin and the ANELL Office); andselections from Hizakurige and Hakkenden in Donald Keene, Anthology of Japanese Literature, pp.416-428. (Not on reserve, but there are numerous copies of this book in Olin) Recommended: World Within Walls, pp. 396-437
23 (M)	Projects (TBA)
25 (W)	Projects (TBA