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Busch 100 M-W-F-- 12:00PM 1:00PM

Discussion Sessions
Session A meets at 3:00-4:00 Prince 232
Session B meets at 4:00-5:00 Prince 232

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

AUGUST

28 (W) Introduction to the Course

30 (F) Background: Geography, Prehistory, and Continental Connections
Read: Conrad Schirokauer, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, pp. 4-17; Electronic Reserves: “The Earliest Records of Japan” from Tsunoda,
ed. Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp. 3-14

SEPTEMBER

2 (M) LABOR DAY

Visit the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Gardens over the Labor Day Weekend! Taiko Drummers, Bon-odori, calligraphy (shodô), flower arranging (ikebana), festival Music, tea ceremony (chadô), go (chess) demonstrations, martial arts demonstrations, Japanese food, crafts, and much, much more!

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/events/japanese2002/welcome.html

4 (W) Gods, Language, and Myth
Read: Tsunoda (ERes), pp. 14-35

Discussion Session #1

Students will meet with Mr. Christopher Born
Session A meets at 3:00-4:00 Prince 232
Session B meets at 4:00-5:00 Prince 232

6 (F) Buddhism and the China Connection
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 19-42

9 (M) Heian Period—the Rise of the Courtly Court
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 46-51; 57-62; 64-72
Recommended: Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince (on reserve)

11 (W) An Architectural Tour of Ancient Japan (ie. a slide show)

Discussion Session #2

13 (F) Sei Shônagon’s Pillow Book and the Rule of Taste
Read: Selections from The Pillow Book (as taken from Anthology of
Japanese Literature, ed. Donald Keene, pp. 137-144—5th down on ERes) and
cuckoo poems from Kokinshû (as taken from Collection of Early and Modern Japanese Poetry, translated by McCullough, pp. 20-21—poems
135-143 6th down on ERes) and Schirokauer, pp. 53-57; 62-64
Recommended: Ivan Morris’ translation of The Pillow Book

16 (M) Marriage, Mono no aware, and Women Writers
Read: The “Kiritsubo” chapter from The Tale of Genji (as taken from
McCullough’s Genji and Heike Selections, 6th and 7th down on ERes)

18 (W) Murasaki Shikibu Meets the Twentieth Century—a Video fest

Discussion Session #3

20 (F) Rise of the Samurai and the Heike Wars
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 74-95

23 (M) Bushidô and Buddhism
Read: The Death of Kiso and Atsumori Episodes from The Tale of the
Heike (taken from McCullough, Genji and Heike, pp. 378-381; 384-387;
394-397 on ERes)

25 (W) Medieval Brilliance
Schirokauer, pp. 97-115

Discussion Session #4

27 (F) Liminal Realms—the World of Noh Theater
Read: “Atsumori” and “Busu” from Keene, Anthology of Japanese
Literature, pp. 286-293; 305-311 on E-Res

30 (M) Canons of Medieval Taste: The World of Sabi
Slides
Guest Lecturer: Mr. Steven Owyoung, Asian Art Curator, Saint Louis Art
Museum

FIRST ESSAY IS DUE TODAY

OCTOBER

2 (W) The Work of Warlords: Nobunaga and Hideyoshi
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 120-140
SLIDES

Discussion Session #5

4 (F) Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Beginnings of Bourgeois Culture
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 142-162

7 (M) The Genroku World
Read: Ihara Saikaku’s “Eternal Storehouse” from Keene, Anthology of
Japanese Literature, pp. 357-362; and haiku by Bashô and his School,
from Keene, 384- 385—on E-Res)

9 (W) The Actor’s World
Read: Chikamatsu Monzaemon, “Love Suicides at Sonezaki” in Keene,
Anthology of Japanese Literature, pp. 391-409 on E-Res

Discussion Session #6

11 (F) Nativists, Dutch, and Perry’s Black Ships
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 162-183

14 (M) MIDTERM

16 (W) Meiji Meets Modernity
Video
no discussion today

18 (F) FALL BREAK!!!

21 (M) Meiji and the Emergence of a Modern Japan
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 184-210 and “The Beefeater,” from Donald Keene,
Modern Japanese Literature, pp. 31-33—on E-Res

23 (W) Taishô: Democracy and Decadence
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 231-245 and Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s “Aguri,” from
Theodore Goosen, The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, pp. 62-
73—on E-Res

Discussion Session #7

25 (F) Steps to War—Japan & China
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 215-224; 248-263

28 (M) The Bomb: Then and Now/ There and Here
Read: selections from Hein & Selden eds. Living with the Bomb, pp. 3-34;
100-121—on E-Res

30 (W) To Name Oneself: Occupation and Recovery
Read: Schirokauer, pp. 265-273 and Kojima Nobuo’s “The American
School” in Contemporary Japanese Literature, pp. 119-144—on E-Res

Discussion Session #8

NOVEMBER

1 (F) Approaching Contemporary Japan—Looking in from Outside; Looking
Out from Within Read: Yoshio Sugimoto, An Introduction to Japanese
Society, pp. 1-25; Watsuji Tetsurô “The Family as Ethical System,” from
Okimoto & Rohlen, Inside the Japanese System, pp. 3-6; and selections
from Karel Van Wolferen, The Enigma of Japanese Power, pp. 263-272—
on E-Res

4 (M) House and Family
Read: Joy Hendry, Understanding Japanese Society, pp. 22-41

6 (W) Setting the Terms: uchi/soto; tatemae/honne; omote/ura
Read: Hendry, pp. 42-75

Discussion Session #9

8 (F) Education: Learning to be Japanese
Read: Hendry, pp. 96-114

11 (M) Trouble in School
Read: Sugimoto, pp. 120-135; Goodman’s chapter “The Cultural Problems
of Kikokushijo,” in Japan’s ‘International Youth’, pp. 51-73—E-Res

13 (W) Religion, Ritual, and Daily Life
Read: Hendry, pp. 115-148

Discussion Session #10

15 (F) Career Paths
Read: Sugimoto, 79-106 on E-Res
Recommended: Hendry, pp. 149-167

18 (M) Gender Issues
Read: Sugimoto, pp.136-168; Nancy Rosenberger, “No Self, True Self, or Multiple Selves?” in Gambling with Virtue, pp. 214-232—E-Res

20 (W) Minority Issues
Read: Sugimoto, pp. 169-192
Discussion Session #11

22 (F) Japan Having Fun—High Entertainment
Read: Hendry pp. 168-186

25 (M) Nightlife
Read: Anne Allison, Nightwork, pp. 33-56 on E-res

27- 29 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS

DECEMBER

2 (M) Japan Having Fun—Low Entertainment
Read: “Japan’s Empty Orchestras: Echoes of Japanese Culture in the
Performance of Karaoke,” In Martinez, The Worlds of Japanese Popular
Culture, pp. 75-87 on E-Res

4 (W) Sports East and West
Read: “The Arrival and Diffusion of Western Sports” and “The Modernization of Indigenous Sports” in Guttmann and Thompson,
Japanese Sports, pp. 67-116—E- Res

Discussion Session #12

6 (F) Summing Up

9 (M) Last day of class

18 (W) FINAL EXAM
1:00-3:00