Readings and what to prepare for every class, as well as links to slides: click on the week!
(Scheduled content subject to change)
- Slides
- Week 1: Intro and navigation
- Week 2: Early Japan and library session 1
- Week 3: Chinese influence on early Japan
- Week 4: Nara Japan, Buddhism, and Heian
- Week 5: Library session 2 & Late Heian
- Week 6: Tale of Genji
- Week 7: Kamakura Japan
- Week 8: Tale of Heike
- Spring Break
- Week 9: Mongols
- Week 10: Muromachi period
- Week 11: Traditional Japanese aesthetics
- Second reflection (due April 6)
- Week 12: Warring States to Unification
- Week 13: Early Tokugawa
- Week 14: Middle and late Tokugawa
- Week 15: Conclusions
- Third reflection (due May 5)
- Show and Tell 5
