IMAP Department of Philosophy (Credit 2) 専攻必修科目 Intended Year: First-year students of the IMAP in Japanese Humanities Intended School: |
Japan: A History to 1600
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Numbering Code: Course Code: 2016 FallTerm weekly Tue3 Hakozaki G30 Classroom E科目 (English, English) |
Course Overview |
This course will examine Japan’s premodern past from its origins in prehistory to the end of the sixteenth century and will provide a chronological overview of the political, social, economic, and cultural developments taking place in the archipelago. Themes of focus include pre- and protohistoric archaeology, state formation, the development of the ritsuryō system, and the rise of the warrior class. Primary sources will be used to develop a range of historical skills; students will learn how to critically assess these documents in context and to understand the nature and foundations of historians’ arguments and interpretations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keywords : history, historiography, primary sources | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course Objectives |
九州大学人文科学府歴史空間論専攻ディプロマ・ポリシー 九州大学人文科学府言語・文学専攻ディプロマ・ポリシー 九州大学文学部哲学コース・カリキュラムマップ 九州大学文学部歴史学コース・カリキュラムマップ 九州大学文学部文学コース・カリキュラムマップ 九州大学文学部人間科学コース・カリキュラムマップ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course Plan |
Textbooks : No textbook is used. Handouts and readings will be distributed by the instructor or are available in the IMAP Seminar Room library. Reference Books : Adolphson, Mikael, Edward Kamens, and Stacie Matsumoto (eds.). Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries (University of Hawai'i Press, 2007). Barnes, Gina L. The Rise of Civilization in East Asia: The Archaeology of China, Korea and Japan (Oxbow Books, 2015). Brown, Delmer, Donald H. Shiveley, William H. McCullough, et al (eds.). The Cambridge History of Japan, vols. 1–5 (Cambridge University Press). Brownlee, John S. Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing: From Kojiki (712) to Tokushi Yoron (1712) (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991). de Bary, William Theodore, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Paul Varley (eds.). Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1, From Earliest Times to 1600, 2nd edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.Friday, Karl (ed.). Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850, (Westview Press, 2012). Fawcett, Clare. “Nationalism and Postwar Japanese Archaeology.” In P. L. Kohl and C. Fawcett (eds.). Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 232–48. Habu, Junko. Ancient Jomon of Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Hudson, Mark. Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands (University of Hawai'i Press, 1999). Imamura, Keiji. Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia (University of Hawaii Press, 1996). Kidder, J. Edward Jr. Himiko and the Elusive Kingdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History and Mythology (University of Hawaii Press, 2007). Lu, David John. Japan: A Documentary History (M.E. Sharpe, 1997). Mass, Jeffrey P. Antiquity and Anachronism in Japanese History (Stanford University Press, 1992). Massarella, Derek. A World Elsewhere: Europe’s Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 1990). McCallum, Donald F. The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2009). Mizoguchi, Kōji. An Archaeological History of Japan: 30,000 B.C. to A.D. 700 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002). Piggott, Joan (ed.). Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180 (Cornell University East Asia Program, 2004). Tsutsui, William M. (ed.). A Companion to Japanese History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). Course Handouts : Handouts and supplementary materials will be uploaded to the course Dropbox Course Plan ()
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Evaluation |
GPA Evaluation
Additional Information regarding Evaluation Method : Students will be asked to be active participants in class discussions (20%) and to complete short written assignments (25%), pop quizzes (25%), and a take-home final exam (30%). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Study Consultation (Office Hours) |
Study Consultation (Office Hours) : By request; planned office hours and place of meeting to be announced. Appointments also available by request; consultation in Japanese or English is welcome. Suggestion for success (Specific) : Students are requested to attend all classes, to arrive to class on time, and to complete all assigned readings and homework in timely fashion. If there are unforeseen emergencies, please inform the professor at the earliest opportunity. Please do not bring phones or electronic devices to class or read/write texts or email. It is essential to take notes at every lecture and during discussions and to review the content frequently. : |