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THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN JAPAN
COURSE SCHEDULE
Tuesday,
March 18, 2008:
THE
EMERGENCE OF THE URBAN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICTS
READING ASSIGNMENT:Teruoka Tasutaka. "The Pleasure Quarters and Tokugawa Culture" in Gerstile (ed), 18th Century Japan, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1989, pages 3 - 32.
Nakano Mitsutoshi. "The Role of Traditional Aesthetics", Chapter 8 in Gerstile (ed), 18th Century Japan, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1989, pages 124 - 131.
THE KABUKI THEATER
READING ASSIGNMENT:
Shively, Donald. "Bakafu versus Kabuki", Chapter 13 in Hall and Jansen (eds), Studies in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968, pages 231 - 261.
Gerstile, C. Andrew. "Flowers of Edo: Kabuki and its Patrons", Chapter 2 in Gerstile (ed), 18th Century Japan, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1989, pages 33 - 50.
Gunji Masakatsu. "Kabuki and Its Social Background", Chapter 8 in Nakane and Oishi, eds., Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1990, pages 192 - 212.
Tuesday,
March 25, 2008:
THE GEISHA: ICONS OF FASHION AND BEAUTY
THE WORLD OF UKIYO-E WOODBLOCK PRINTS
READING ASSIGNMENT:
Guth, Christine. "Mapping the Artistic Landscape", "The Artist and the City" and "Edo Artists", Introduction, Chapter One and Chapter Three in Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615 - 1868, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996, pages 9 - 49 and 89 - 125.
Akai Tasuro. "The Common People and Painting", Chapter 7 in Nakane and Oishi, eds., Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1990, pages 167 - 191.
Tuesday,
April 1, 2008:
DEVELOPMENTS IN LITERATURE AND POETRY
FLOATING WORLD RESEARCH PROJECT DUE
READING ASSIGNMENT:
Bowring, Richard. "Impact, Influence and Reception", Chapter 4 in Landmarks of World Literature: Murasaki Shikibu - The Tale of Genji, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, pages 81 - 102.