Course25 lectures27 h 7 min
Japanese 7A - Fall 2010
John R WALLACE · University of California, Berkeley
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JAPAN 7A LEC 001 Fa10
Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
Lectures
- Lecture 1: Class orientation | Overview of historical periods
- Lecture 2: Basic cultural points of the very early periods Paleolithic, Jomon, and Yayoi
- Lecture 3: Shinto concepts | The 8th c. Nara chronicles that are the first literary texts of Japan
- Lecture 4: The first poem anthology of Japan, the late-Nara (8th c.) Anthology of Ten-thousand Leaves
- Lecture 5: The classical Heian period and its 10th c. monumental Anthology of Ancient and Current Poems
- Lecture 6: Mid-Heian (10th c.) romance: the poem tale Tales of Ise and the womans journal Kagerō Diary
- Lecture 7: Heian literary salons and the 11th c. Pillow Book - Court music
- Lecture 8: The 11th c. pinnacle of literary prose: The Tale of Genji, Session 01 - Buddhism - Yin-Yang
- Lecture 9: Tale of Genji, Session 02 - Mono no aware - about Essay, Step 01
- Lecture 10: Tale of Genji, Session 03 - Mono no aware, continued
- Lecture 11: Tale of Genji, Session 04
- Lecture 13: Transition to the Middle period - The 13th c. revision of poetry: New Anthology of Ancient and Current Poems
- Lecture 14: Middle Period's 13th c. Buddhist reforms and Buddhist-informed prose works
- Lecture 15: The Gempei War of the 12th c., basis for Tales of the Heike - Military arts and values - about Essay, Step 02
- Lecture 16: Tales of the Heike, Session 01 - Military clothing and weapons
- Lecture 17: Tales of the Heike, Session 02 - Performing Heike
- Lecture 18: Tales of the Heike, Session 03 - Heike in the visual arts
- Lecture 19: No drama of the Northern Hills Culture of the Late Middle Period (Muromachi Period)
- Lecture 20: Tea practices developed during the Eastern Hills Culture of the Late Middle Period (Muromachi Period)
- Lecture 21: Haiku from the Edo period (17th-19th c.) - about Essay, Step 03
- Lecture 22: Genroku period's Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Lecture 23: Genroku period's puppet theater
- Lecture 24: Genroku period's double-suicide plays by Chikamatsu - about Essay, Step 04
- Lecture 26: Genroku periods risque short fiction
- Lecture 27: Last Class
Credits and licence
- Institution
- University of California, Berkeley
- Teacher
- John R WALLACE
- Year
- 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Literature and writing, Languages and linguistics
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 3.0, as Internet Archive states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. Internet Archive's terms
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