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Required Texts

Sadler, Arthur, tr. The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2005. ISBN: 9780766193369.

McCullough, Helen Craig, eds. Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology. Stanford, CA: Standford University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780804719605.

Saikaku, Ihara. Five Women Who Loved Love. Boston, MA: Tuttle Publishing, 1955. ISBN: 9780804801843.

Kokichi, Katsu. Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780816510351.

Suzuki, Daisetz T. Zen and Japanese Culture. New York, NY: MJF Books, 1997. ISBN: 9781567311242.

Recommended Texts

Souyri, Pierre Francois. The World Turned Upside Down. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780231118422.

Course readings.
SES #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction	Sadler, pp. 22-262.
I. Ways of The Warriors
2	Historical/Geographical Overview	Duus, Peter. "Feudalism." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 2. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 263-267. ISBN: 9780870116209. Shinoda, Minoru. "Kamakura History (1185-1333)." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 3. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 169-172. ISBN: 9780870116209. Colcutt, Martin. "Muromachi History (1333-1568)." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 3. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 172-177. ISBN: 9780870116209. Elison, George. "Azuchi-Momoyama History (1568-1600)." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 3. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987. ISBN: 9780870116209. Hall, John. "Edo History (1600-1868)." Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 3. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 185-192. ISBN: 9780870116209.
3	Emergence of the Warrior Ethos	Butler, Kenneth Dean. "The Heike Monogatari and the Japanese Warrior Ethic." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 29 (1969): 93-108.
4	Zen	Suzuki, Chapters 1, 2, and 4.
5	Zen and the Samurai	Suzuki, Chapters 5 and 6.
6	Short Exam
7	Bushidô	Inazo, Nitobe. "On Bushido." In Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts. Edited by Donn F. Draeger and Robert W. Smith. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha, 1997, pp. 88-90. ISBN: 9780870114366. Colcutt, Martin. "Bushido." In Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 1. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 221-223. ISBN: 9780870116209. Yamaga, Sokō. "The Rediscovery of Confucianism" in Ryusaku Tsunoda, Em. Sources of Japanese Tradition. Edited by Theodore DeBary and Donald Keene. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1958, pp. 384-390. Yamamoto, Tsunetomo. "Hagakure: The Way of Death." Sources of Japanese History. Edited by David John Lu. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1974, pp. 250-252. ISBN: 9780070389021.
II. Spiritual and Supernatural Worlds
8	The Forty-Seven Ronin	Ikegami, Eiko. "The Vendetta of the Forty-seven Samurai." In The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997, pp. 223-240. ISBN: 9780674868090. Sato, Hiroaki. "The Forty-Seven Samurai: An Eyewitnees Account with Arguments" In Legends of the Samurai. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1995, pp. 304-338. ISBN: 9780879516192.
9	The Forty-seven Ronin (cont.)
10	Ugetsu	Ueda, Akinari. "The House Amid the Thickets." In Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Translated by Leon M. Zolbrod. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1974, pp. 121-132. ISBN: 9780048231161. ———. "The Lust of the White Serpent." In Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Translated by Leon M. Zolbrod. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1974, pp. 161-184. ISBN: 9780048231161.
11	Medieval Aesthetics	McCullough, pp. 1-26, 272-339, and 377-392.
12	Medieval Aesthetics (cont.)	McCullough, pp. 393-421 and 472-551.
13	Zen and the Tea Ceremony	Suzuki, Chapters 8-10.
14	Christianity	Lu, David John. "The Japanese in European Eyes." In Sources of Japanese History. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1974, pp. 193-196. ISBN: 9780070389021. Elison, George. "How a Japanese Lay Monk and a Kirishitan Iruman Held a Debate on Religion." In Deus Destroyed: The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974, pp. 338-348. ISBN: 9780674199613. Morris, Ivan. "The Japanese Messiah." In The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975, pp. 143-179. ISBN: 9780030108112.
III. Worlds of Pleasure/Worlds of Pain
15	Tokugawa Urban Life	Saikaku, pp. 3-51. Crihfield, Liza. "Yoshiwara." In Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 8. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 349-351. ISBN: 9780870116209.
16	Saikaku	Saikaku, pp. 55-120.
17	Chikamatsu	Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. "The Love Suicides at Sonezaki" in Early Modern Japanese Literature. Edited by Haruo Shirane. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2002, pp. 242-259. ISBN: 9780231109901. Dunn, Charles. "Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724)." In Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Vol. 1. Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha Ltd., 1987, pp. 275-276. ISBN: 9780870116209.
18	Ecstasy and Self Destruction	Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. "The Love Suicides at Amijima." In Major Plays of Chikamatsu, Translated by Donald Keene. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 387-425. ISBN: 9780231074155.
19	Women under Feudalism	Ackroyd, Joyce. "Women in Feudal Japan." Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan 8, 3rd series (1959): 31-68. Lu, David John. "Confucian Justice and the Wife of a Murdered Husband: A Criminal Case from the Year 1711." In Sources of Japanese History. New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1974, pp. 243-247. ISBN: 9780070389021. Ekken, Kaibara. "The Greater Learning for Women." In Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese. Yokohama, Japan: Kelly and Walsh, 1891, pp. 454-463.
20	Saikaku's Amorous Woman/Mizoguchi's Tragic Heroine	Saikaku, pp. 121-210.
IV. Reassessing The Samurai
21	Oharu
22	Repression and Protest in History and Film	Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. "Gonza the Lancer." In Major Plays of Chikamatsu. Translated by Donald Keene. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1961, pp. 270-312. ISBN: 9780231074155.
23	Rebellions	Aoki, Michiko Y., and Dardess, Margaret B, eds. "Sogo of Sakura." In As the Japanese See It. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1981, pp. 1-4. ISBN: 9780824807603. Morris, Ivan. "Save the People." In The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975, pp. 180-216. ISBN: 9780030108112. Norman, pp. 341-354.
24	Failed Samurai	Kokichi, pp. 1-155.
25	Failed Samurai (cont.)
26	Conclusion; Review for Final
	Final Exam

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