Japanese 140A The World of Early Modern Japanese Literature Spring 2017 (Provisional Syllabus)

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1 Japanese 140A The World of Early Modern Japanese Literature Spring 2017 (Provisional Syllabus) This class will survey some of the most celebrated works of literature from Japan s early modern period ( ). We will consider texts from a wide variety of genres, including fiction, travelogues, memoirs, and poetry, and we will also read and view dramatic forms such as the puppet theater and kabuki. All readings are available in English translation; Japanese knowledge is not required. Our class meetings will typically begin with an introductory lecture that will help to put the literary works we read in their historical and cultural context. The focus of each class meeting, however, will be close reading and discussion of the texts. Students are therefore expected to read and reflect upon the assigned materials prior to class and to participate actively in discussion. Success in this four-credit course is based on the expectation that students will spend a minimum of 9 hours of study time per week in preparation for class (readings, papers, discussion sections, preparation for exams, etc.). Students will also be asked to brief (about well-chosen words) response essays to the weekly readings at least four times during the semester. These are to be posted to the online discussion forum (Latte) on the night before a class discussion. Short quizzes concerning the readings and lectures will be given periodically. A short paper (5 7 pages in length) will be assigned halfway through the term that will ask students to make some comparison between two or more of the works we have read. Suggested topics will be provided but students are welcome to formulate their own questions in consultation with the instructor. As a final project, each student will also be required to submit a final paper (about 10 pages in length) that will provide a chance to explore a work of the student s choice in greater analytical depth. Many of the texts we read as a class will be excerpts from longer works; for the final paper, the student is asked to choose one of the texts from which we have read an excerpt and read it in its entirety. Both writing assignments will be evaluated for their coherence, critical argumentation, persuasiveness, and thoroughness of engagement with the material. Grades will be determined as follows: Attendance and class participation 15% Quizzes and web posts 20% Short paper 25% Final paper 40% Instructor: Prof. Matthew Fraleigh Mail: fraleigh@brandeis.edu Phone: Class: Tu, Th 6:30 PM 7:50 PM Olin-Sang 112 Office: Mandel 115 Hours: Tu 10:00 12:00 Disabilities / Other Issues: If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis University and wish to have a reasonable accommodation made for you in this class, please see me immediately. If there are other circumstances of which I should be aware, I hope that you will come talk to me early in the semester. Extensions: Extensions are not granted except in cases of medical or family emergency. p. 1

2 Academic Integrity: You are expected to be honest in all of your academic work. Please consult Brandeis University Rights and Responsibilities ( for all policies and procedures related to academic integrity. Students may be required to submit work to TurnItIn.com software to verify originality. Allegations of alleged academic dishonesty will be forwarded to the Director of Academic Integrity. Sanctions for academic dishonesty can include failing grades and/or suspension from the university. Citation and research assistance can be found at LTS - Library guides ( Texts available for purchase at the Brandeis campus bookstore; other readings are available online Shirane, Haruo, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature: an Anthology. Abridged ed. Columbia UP, [Abbreviated EMJL below] Takeda Izumo, Namiki Sōsuke, and Miyoshi Shōraku. Chūshingura. Trans. Donald Keene. New York: Columbia UP, Additional Resources: The following are useful resources on Japan s pre-modern history and pre-modern literature. They are on reserve in Goldfarb Library. Shirane, Haruo, ed. Early Modern Japanese Literature: an Anthology. New York: Columbia UP, (Note: This is the unabridged edition of our main textbook; it is abbreviated EMJLFull below) Keene, Donald. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era New York: Grove, Nishiyama Matsunosuke. Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, Trans. Gerald Groemer. Honolulu: U of Hawai i P, Totman, Conrad. Early Modern Japan. Berkeley: U of California P, Sumie Jones with Kenji Watanabe, eds. An Edo Anthology: Literature From Japan s Mega-City U of Hawai i P, (Note: this text is abbreviated AEA below) Required readings are marked ; optional readings are marked. Students who are interested in reading materials in Japanese (either selections from the primary readings or secondary scholarship) are encouraged to consult with the instructor. Week 1 Introduction / The Edo period in Japanese history and literature Tuesday January 17: Overview of class aims and policies; introduction to early modern Japanese literature Thursday January 19: Historical and cultural context; Kana-zōshi (Guest lecturer: Steve Hanna) EMJL Chapter 1 Early Modern Japan. pp Gluck, Carol. The Invention of Edo. In Stephen Vlastos, ed., Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. U of California P, Asai Ryōi (1612? 1691?), Botan no tōrō (The Peony lantern). Trans. Maryellen Toman Mori. Hollywood: Highmoonoon, Putzar, Edward. Inu makura : The Dog Pillow. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 28 (1968): p. 2

3 Week 2 The Floating World Genroku Fiction and Ihara Saikaku ( ) Tuesday January 24: Selections from Saikaku s Life of a Sensuous Man : EMJL pp Selections from Saikaku s Life of a Sensuous Woman : EMJL pp Ihara Saikaku. The Great Mirror of Male Love. Trans. Paul G. Schalow. Stanford UP, Selections. Leupp, Gary. Male Colors: the Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan. U of California P, pp Thursday January 26: Ihara Saikaku. Tales of Samurai Honor: Buke giri monogatari. Trans. Caryl Ann Callahan. Tokyo: Monumenta Nipponica, Sophia University, Selections. Selections from Saikaku s Japan s Eternal Storehouse : EMJL pp Selections from Saikaku s Worldly Mental Calculations : EMJL pp Week 3 Haikai and Haibun Tuesday January 31: The origins of haikai and the poetry of Matsuo Bashō ( ) Bashō s hokku: EMJL pp Kawamoto Kōji. The Poetics of Japanese Verse: Imagery, Structure, Meter. Trans. Kevin Collins. U of Tokyo P, pp Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō. Stanford UP, pp Thursday February 2: Bashō s haibun Bashō s Narrow Road to the Deep North : EMJL pp Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashō. Stanford UP, pp Week 4 Chinese learning; Chinese poetry and prose Tuesday February 7: Confucianism Confucian Studies and Literary Perspectives, EMJLFull pp Selections from: Ogyū Sorai. Master Sorai s Responsals. Trans. Samuel Hideo Yamashita. U of Hawaii P, Letters 1 4, 27 29, Thursday February 9: Sinitic poetry (Kanshi) Selections from: Ishikawa Jōzan. Kanshi: the Poetry of Ishikawa Jōzan and Other Edo-period Poets. Trans. Burton Watson. North Point P, pp Selections from: Gensei. Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei. Trans. Burton Watson. Columbia UP, pp. 6-7; pp. 9-11; p. 14; p. 19; pp ; p. 24; p. 27; pp ; p. 38; p. 50; p. 68 Selected poems of Nakae Tōju, Yamazaki Ansai, Itō Jinsai, Muro Kyūsō. In Rabinovitch, Judith and Bradstock, Timothy. An Anthology of Kanshi (Chinese Verse) by Japanese Poets of the Edo Period ( ): Translations of Selected Poems with an Introduction and Commentaries. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen P, ; 75 78; 83 89; p. 3

4 Week 5 Jōruri and Kabuki Tuesday February 14: Chikamatsu Monzaemon ( ) and the Puppet Theater Chikamatsu s The Love Suicides at Sonezaki : EMJL pp Chikamatsu s The Love Suicides at Amijima : EMJL pp Screening of Double Suicide (dir. Shinoda Masahiro, 1969). Time and place TBA. Thursday February 16: Chikamatsu Monzaemon. The Battles of Coxinga. Trans. Donald Keene. Major Plays of Chikamatsu. New York: Columbia UP, pp Keene, Donald. Characteristic Responses to Confucianism in Tokugawa Literature. In Peter Nosco, ed. Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture. Princeton UP, pp Short papers due Friday February 17 Mid-Winter Break: February Week 6 The Golden Age of the Puppet Theater: the 47 Loyal Retainers Tuesday February 28: Takeda Izumo, Namiki Sōsuke, and Miyoshi Shōraku. Chūshingura. Trans. Donald Keene. New York: Columbia UP, Smith, Henry D. The Capacity of Chūshingura. Monumenta Nipponica 58:1 (Spring 2003) Bitō Masahide. The Akō Incident of Trans. Henry D. Smith II. Monumenta Nipponica 58:2 (Summer 2003) McMullen, James. Confucian Perspectives on the Akō Revenge: Law and Moral Agency. Monumenta Nipponica. 58:3 (Autumn 2003) Thursday March 2: MusicUnitesUS: Intercultural Residency Series: East Asian musicians PAN Project (class meets in Slosberg 212) Week 7 Mid-Edo poetry Tuesday March 7: The hokku of Yosa Buson ( ) Selections of Buson s hokku: EMJL pp Ueda, Makoto. The Path of the Flowering Thorn: the Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson. Stanford UP, Chapters 6 7. Thursday March 9: Comic poetry Comic and satiric poetry (kyōka, senryū): EMJL pp Pollack, David. Kyōshi: Japanese Wild Poetry. Journal of Asian Studies 38 (1979): Selections from Karai Senryū et al, eds. Mr. Senryū s Barrel of Laughs. Trans. Jason Webb. In AEA pp p. 4

5 Week 8 Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Tuesday March 14: Selections from Ueda Akinari s Tales of Moonlight and Rain: EMJL, Ueda Akinari. Homecoming and Bewitched. Tales of Moonlight and Rain. Trans. Kengi Hamada. Columbia UP. Pp Thursday March 16: Note: class will not meet formally on this day, due to the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Instead, please watch Ugetsu (1953), a film directed by Mizoguchi Kenji based upon these stories. Week 9 The Birth of Edo Popular Literature Tuesday March 21: Dangibon (satiric teachings) Hiraga Gennai. Rootless Weeds: EMJL Hiraga Gennai. The Modern Life of Shidōken: EMJL Yonemoto, Marcia. Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period ( ). U of California P, Thursday March 23: Sharebon (books of wit and fashion) Yamaoka Matsuake. Seki the Night Hawk. Trans. Robert Campbell. In AEA, pp Santō Kyōden. Forty-Eight Techniques for Success with Courtesans: EMJL Week 10 Comic Books Tuesday March 28: Kibyōshi (comic books for adults) Koikawa Harumachi. Mr Glitter n Gold s Dream of Splendor: EMJL Santō Kyōden. Grilled and Basted Edo-Born Playboy: EMJL Shiba Zenkō. Thousand Arms of Goddess, Julienned. Trans. Adam Kern. In AEA, pp Adam Kern. Manga From the Floating World. Harvard U Asia Center, Chapter 1. Thursday March 30 TBA Week 11 Nativism and Japanese Poetics Tuesday April 4: Kamo no Mabuchi Eighteenth-Century Waka and Nativist Study, EMJLFull pp Nosco, Peter. Remembering Paradise: Nativism and Nostalgia in Eighteenth-Century Japan. Harvard UP, Thursday April 6: Motoori Norinaga Eighteenth-Century Waka and Nativist Study, EMJLFull pp Flueckiger, Peter. Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism. Stanford UP, Chapters 5 and 6. Spring Break: April p. 5

6 Week 12 Comic Fiction Thursday April 20: Kokkeibon (comic fiction) Jippensha Ikku. Travels on the Eastern Seaboard: EMJL, Shikitei Sanba. Floating-World Bathhouse: EMJL, Shikitei Sanba. In the World of Men Nothing But Lies. Trans. Joel Cohn. In AEA, pp Week 13 Later Sinitic and Japanese Poetry Tuesday April 25: Kobayashi Issa ( ) Issa s Journal of My Father s Last Days and selected hokku: EMJL Bolitho, Harold. Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan. Yale UP, Chapter 2. Thursday April 27: Ryōkan ( ) Selections from Abé, Ryūichi and Peter Haskel. Great Fool Zen Master Ryōkan: Poems, Letters, and Other Writings. U of Hawai i P, Nativizing Poetry and Prose in Chinese, EMJLFull pp Week 14 Bakumatsu into Meiji Tuesday May 2 Satirical Chronicles of Urban Life Selections from Terakado Seiken. Account of the Prosperity of Edo. Trans. Andrew Markus. Highmoonnoon, Narushima Ryūhoku. New Chronicles of Yanagibashi. Trans. Matthew Fraleigh. Cornell East Asia Series, Final Papers due: Friday May 5 p. 6