Course Syllabus

Sept. 6

• Wei Chih, Sung Shu. In Wm. Theodore de Bary and George Tanabe, eds., Sources of Japanese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. pp. 5-13.
• Selections from the Kojiki. Trans. Donald L. Phillipi. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1968. pp. 37-92, 163-177.

• Joan Piggott, The Emergence of Japanese Kingship, Stanford University Press, 1997: pp. 127-135.
  
  
• Selections from the Nihon Shoki (or Nihongi, Chronicles of Japan, c. 720), trans. W. G. Aston, London: George Allen & Unwin. From Volume 28, 'Tenmu Tenno part 1'(pp. 301-321); Volume 29 'Tenmu Tenno part 2' (pp. 340-342, 348-350, 357-359, 362-365, 376-381) and Volume 30 'Jito Tenno (382-385, 389-403, 416-423)
  
  
• Poems from the Kojiki (c. 712) and the Man'yoshu(c. 8th century): KJK 43, 51; MYS Vol. 1: 2, 27, 36-9, 50, 52; Vol. 2: 167-69; Vol. 3: 234, 234-variant; Vol. 19: 4261, 4262.

Sept. 13

• "The Founding of the Monastery Gangji and a List of Its Treasures." Trans. Miwa Stevenson. In George J. Tanabe Jr., ed., Religions of Japan in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. pp. 299-315.
  
• "Hagiography and History: The Image of Prince Shtoku." Trans. William E. Deal. In Tanabe. pp. 316-333.
  
• "The Confucian Monarchy of Nara Japan." Trans. Charles Holcombe. In Tanabe. pp. 293-298.
  

• A Tale of Flowering Fortunes. In Helen Craig McCullough ed., Classical Japanese Prose: An Anthology. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. pp. 200-250.

• "A Memorial Presenting a List of Newly Imported Sutras and Other Items." In Kkai: Major Works. Trans. Yoshito S. Hakeda. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. pp. 140-150.
• "The Founding of Mount Kya and Kkai's Eternal Meditation." Trans. George J. Tanabe, Jr. In Tanabe. pp. 354-359.
• "Japan's First Shingon Ceremony." Trans. David L. Gardiner. In Tanabe. pp. 153-158.
• "Shingon Services For the Dead." Trans. Richard Karl Payne. In Tanabe. pp. 159-165.
• "Genshin's Deathbed Nembutsu Ritual in Pure Land Buddhism." Trans, James C. Dobbins. In Tanabe. pp. 166-175.
• "Women in Japanese Buddhism: Tales of Birth in the Pure Land." Trans. William E. Deal. In Tanabe. pp. 176-184.

• [Jien]. The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansh, an Interpretive History of Japan Written in 1219. Trans Delmer M. Brown and Ichir Ishida. pp. 205-240.

• The Tale of the Heike. Trans. Helen Craig McCullough. In Genji and Heike: Selections From The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. pp. 370-397.
• Kamo no Chmei. An Account of My Hermitage. Trans. Helen Craig McCullough. In McCullough. pp. 377-392.

• "Eisai's Promotion of Zen for the Protection of the Country." Trans. Albert Welter. In Tanabe. pp. 63-70.
• Dgen. "Bendwa and Genj koan." In de Bary and Tanabe. pp. 319-326.
• Hnen, "Choosing the Original Vow." "One Page Testament." Shunran, "Lamentation and Self Reflection." Tannish. In de Bary and Tanabe. pp. 222-228.
• "Hoss's Jkei and the Kfukuji Petition." In Robert E. Morrell, Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1987. pp. 66-88.
• "Muj Ichien's Shint-Buddhist Syncretism." Trans. Robert E. Morrell. In Tanabe. pp. 415-442.

• Hnen [Shunjo]. "On the Salvation of Women." In David J. Lu, Japan: A Documentary History. M. E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 1997. pp. 131-132.
• Keissei. A Companion in Solitude. In de Bary and Tanabe. pp. 404-406.
• Muj Ichien. Mirror for Women. In de Bary and Tanabe. pp. 406-412.
• "The Seven Nuns." In Margaret Helen Childs, Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1991. pp. 91-140.
  

• David J. Lu. Japan: A Documentary History. M. E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 1997. pp. 174-186 (documents 1-7).
• ta Gyichi. The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga. In de Bary and Tanabe. pp. 444-447.
• Oda Nobunaga. "Letters from the Battleground." In de Bary and Tanabe. pp. 447-450.
• Lu, 191-196 (docs 11-17)
• "Japan's Christian Century." In Lu. pp. 197-201 (documents 20-25).
  
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi. "Limitations on the Propogation of Christianity" and "Expulsion of Missionaries." In Lu. pp. 196-197.
  
• "Letter to the Viceroy of the Indies." In Ryusaku Tsunoda, et al., eds. Sources of Japanese Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1958. pp. 316-318.

• Lu, pp. 203-215 (documents 1-9) and pp. 243-261 (documents 1-8).
• Kaibara Ekken. "Greater Learning For Women." In The Way of Contentment. Trans. Ken Hoshino. London: Murray, 1913. pp. 33-46.

• Yamaga Sok. The Way of the Samurai. In Tsunoda, et al. pp. 389-391.
• Katsu Kokichi. Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai. Trans. Teruko Craig. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988. pp. 1-8, 71-146.

• Lu, pp. 215-219 (documents 10-11).
• Chikamatsu Monzaemon. The Love Suicides at Sonezaki. Trans. Donald Keene. In Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. pp. 39-56.
• Lawrence Rogers. "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not: Shinj and Shikid kagami." Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 49, no. 1 (Spring, 1994). pp. 31-60.

• Motoori Norinaga. Naobi no Mitama [The Spirit of Renovation]. Trans. H. D. Harootonian. In Tetsuo Najita, ed., Readings in Tokugawa Thought. Chicago: Center for East Asian Studies, The University of Chicago: 1993. pp. 111-127.
• Kamo no Mabuchi. Kokuik [Ideas on the Meaning of the Realm]. Trans. H. D. Harootonian. In Najita. pp. 129-148.
• Aizawa Seshisai. Shinron: Kokutai [Chapter One of "A New Thesis": The National Essence]. Trans. J. Victor Koschmann. In Najita. pp. 179-213.

• Perry, Matthew C. The Japan Expedition, 1852-1854: The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. Washington: Smithsonian, 1968. pp. 177-198, 233-234.
• Lu, pp. 281-295 (documents 8-12).
• Fukuzawa Yukichi. The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. Trans. Eiichi Kiyooka. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966. pp. 104-140.
• Lu, pp. 324 (document 12).
• Kume Kunitake. Report of the Iwakura Mission and The Memoirs of Professor Kume Kunitake. In The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford, 1997. pp. 168-183.
  

Lu. 305-312 (documents 1-4), 339-344 (documents19-20).

• Hattori Bush. "The Western Peep Show." Trans. Donald Keene. In Donald Keene, ed., Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology. New York: Grove Press, 1956. pp. 34-36.
• Ishikawa Takuboku. The Romaji Diary. Trans. Donald Keene. In Keene. pp. 211-231.

• Lu, pp. 365-373 (documents 8-9), pp. 389-394 (documents 5-8), and pp. 398-406 (documents 12-15).
• Kaneko Fumiko. "What Made Me Do What I Did." Trans. Mikiso Hane. In Mikiso Hane, ed., Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. pp. 75-124.

• Teiko Utsumi. "Mingei and the Life of Soetsu Yanagi." In Mingei: Two Centuries of Japanese Folk Art. pp. 14-31.
• Robert Moes. "Edward Morse, Yanagi Soetsu and the Japanese Folk Art Movement." In Japanese Folk Art: A Triumph of Simplicity. pp. 20-27.
• Yanagi Soetsu. "Toward a Standard of Beauty." In The Unknown Craftsman. pp. 101-108.
• ___. "Kingdom of Beauty and Folk-Crafts." In Mingei. pp. 127-130.
• ___. "The Responsibility of the Craftsman." In The Unknown Craftsman. pp. 216-224.
• ___. "The Beauty of Irregularity." In The Unknown Craftsman. pp. 119-126.
• ___. "The Dharma Gate of Beauty." The Eastern Buddhist, vol. 12, no. 2 (10/1979): 1-21.

• "Fundamentals of Our National Polity." In Tsunoda, et al. pp. 278-288.
• Lu, pp. 435-447 (documents 7-11).
• Maruyama Masao. "Theory and Psychology of Ultra-Nationalism." Trans. Ivan Morris. In Ivan Morris, ed.,Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. pp. 1-24.

• Cook, Haruko and Theodore. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press, 1992. pp. 29-40, 50-61, 83-90, 99-121, 158-167.

• Lu, pp. 457-482 (documents 16, 1-6).

• Kojima Nobuo. "The American School." Trans. William F. Sibley. In Howard Hibbett, ed., Contemporary Japanese Literature. New York: Knopf, 1977. pp. 120-144.
• Nosaka Akiyuki. "America Hijiki." Trans. Jay Rubin. In Hibbett. pp. 435-46.

• Hidaka Rokur. The Price of Affluence. New York: Kodansha,1984. pp. 15-47, 63-78.
• Aoki Yayoi. "Feminism and Imperialism." In Sandra Buckley. Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. pp. 17-31.