Welcome to John R Wallace's

Classical Japanese Literature and Culture Web Site

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Find me:
Office: Dwinelle 3409
Office Hours: M, W 1:20-3PM and by appt

Email me: Wallace

Classes I am currently (Fall 2009) teaching
for recently taught classes, click here

UC-Berkeley
 Japan 7A
"Survey of Premodern Japanese Literature & Culture"

UC-Berkeley
Japan 155
"Modern Japanese Literature"

Japanese short stories taught in English and Japanese

UC-Berkeley
EA 105
Core Romantic Values in East Asian Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film

*audio archives of these lectures are available to the public at webcast.berkeley.edu

Asian Art Museum
Society for Asian Arts:
Fall '09 and Spring '10
Literature Series

"The Story of the Stone"

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More or less permanent pages
These panels lead to pages on the imperial poetry collection Selection of Poems Old and New (Kokin waka shū), The Tale of Genji and Heian culture, and The Tale of Heike. Each of these was developed for lecture series at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco or for classes at UC-Berkeley but have been modified over time. They are intended for a general audience.
Kokin poetry The Tale of Genji The Tale of Heike
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Past classes
SAA–These were support pages developed for public lecture or lecture series. Unlike the Genji, Kokin and Heike pages linked above, these classes are hybrid topics covering several aspects of Japanese art and culture under a single theme. UCB–These are the previous semester's classes that I taught at UC-Bertkeley, mostly kept available for a period of time so students can access them if necessary.
SAA–Matsuo Bashō's Narrow Road to the Deep North, Chikamatsu Monzaemon's Love Suicides at Sonezaki & Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country SAA–Japanese Poetry
Heian Women's Memoirs
Nō Drama		 UCB–Japan 130
"Autumn & Love Poetry of the Kokin shū and Shin Kokin shū"		 UCB–East Asian Languages & Cultures 105
"East Asian Core Romantic Values in Premodern Literature and Modern Cinema"
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