IMAP Department of Philosophy (Credit 2) コース必修科目 Intended Year: Intended School: |
Japan: A History to 1600
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Numbering Code: Course Code: 2024 FallTerm weekly Mon2 Ito C212(30) Classroom E科目 (English, English) |
Course Overview |
This course will examine Japan’s past from its origins in prehistory to the turn of the seventeenth century and will provide an overview of a number of major 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keywords : history, historiography, primary sources | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prerequisites : None, prior completion of an introduction to Japanese history course is advisable Required Ability : None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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, but several readings are drawn from Friday, Karl (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History (Routledge, 2017) and Friday, Karl (ed.). Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850, (Westview Press, 2012). 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 readings will be distributed via Dropbox. Course Plan ()
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Evaluation |
GPA Evaluation
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Study Consultation (Office Hours) |
Study Consultation (Office Hours) : By appointment Suggestion for success (Specific) : By the end of the semester, successful students should 1.have a thorough understanding of select political, social, economic, and cultural developments taking place through the late sixteenth century 2.be able to contextualize these developments within the larger contours of East Asian history, society, and culture 3.understand the historical background of important features of present-day Japanese society : |