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✓ To be complete by class time

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Session 01—Th, Aug 25: Course details & Introductory lecture

Topics

◊ Orientation

Thoughts—read before class, revisit for tests

These are key points, in case you missed this lecture:

  • Check announcements frequently; no in-class announcements
  • Learn, and use, my subject line system for emails. (See sidebar.)
  • Read these policies by end of first week: green, laptop, academic honesty. These can quickly affect your grade. (Access through sidebar.)
  • Entirely rebuilding this class so bear with me as materials get put together.
  • I failed to make comments I intended to on China, classical mentality, ga-zoku, and the emphasis of this class. I will make those next session.

Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ Nothing.

Multimedia notes

◊ Nothing presented.

Links

⇢ None.

Other

None.

HISTORICAL PERIODS

Jomon ca. 11,000-300 BCE
Yayoi 300 BCE - 300 AD
Kofun 300 - 552
Asuka 552 - 710
Nara 710 - 794 (Kojiki, Man'yōshū)
Heian One 794 - 900
Heian Two 900 -1185 (Kokinshū, Genji, Pillow Book)
Kamakura 1185 - 1333
(Shin-Kokinshu, Buddhist reforms in 1200s; Hōjōki; Tale of Heike; Essays in Idleness; Confessions of Lady Nijō)
Muromachi 1333 - 1573
(Northern Hills late 1300s, first half 1400s, Zeami & Nō drama)
(Eastern Hills late 1400s)
Momoyama 1568/73 - 1603/15
(Sen Rikyū & wabi-cha)
Edo 1603-1868
(Genroku 1688-1704)
(Narrow Road, Love Suicides,
Ihara Saikaku)

*graphic of complicated name designation systems for Middle Period eras