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MILITARY - BUREAUCRATIC JAPAN and THE FLOATING WORLD

TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2009

REUNIFICATION: TRANSITION TO THE MILITARY-BUREAUCRATIC PERIOD

QUIZ THREE DUE
READING: TOTMAN, PP 133-164; Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) [Hereafter "GORDON"], PP 9 - 11

THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2009 

TOKUGAWA JAPAN: THE POLITICAL STATE

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE IN TOKUGAWA JAPAN 
  
READING: TOTMAN, PP 188-199; GORDON, PP 11-34

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009

THE GENROKU CULTURAL STYLE 
   
READING: TOTMAN, PP 164-188; GORDON, PP 34 - 46

THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2009 

DISCUSSION: FOUR MAJOR PLAYS OF CHIKAMATSU  
     
FIRST ESSAY DUE (if written on Chikamatsu's plays) 
JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT THREE (if you wrote on Nijo's Confessions)

TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2009

NO SCHEDULED CLASS - SPRING BREAK

THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2009

NO SCHEDULED CLASS - SPRING BREAK

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2009 

TOKUGAWA JAPAN: THE SEEDS OF MODERNIZATION

READING: TOTMAN, PP 199-230
WEB ASSIGNMENT SIX DUE