School of Letters Department of Humanities Literature Course Japanese Linguistics & Literature Major Major (Credit 2) Intended Year: Intended School:

Japanese Literature (Lecture V) Japanese Literature (Lecture V) Sub Title　 Professor, National Institute of Japanese Literature KANSAKU Kenichi

Numbering Code: LET-HUM3524J Course Code: 2023 SpringTerm intensive Ito Classroom M/J科目 (日本語, 古典日本語)

Course Overview

While this lecture presents an overview of early modern Japanese literature and its characteristics, I focus especially on the history of early modern waka poetry—its various aspects and accomplishments. Students will learn research methods for empirical analysis based on basic knowledge of classical Japanese texts (object), and basic procedures of transliteration and annotation. In order to master these research methods, students will need to compare waka poetry with other genres and consider waka poetry within its own time. We will follow the latest research on the history of early modern waka poetry by going freely back and forth between the basics and applications. I hope we can think about what literature is and what classics are.

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