MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

HSY2210

Japan: origins to 1800

Proposed to be offered in 1998

Lincoln Li

Synopsis This is a historical introduction to the development of society, state, and culture in Japan. Major topics include early society, the Yamato state, the Ritsuryo system, aristocrats and warriors, the manorial estates, Shogunate systems, daimyos and socio-economic reorganisation, early contacts with the West, the Age of Navigation, urbanisation and socio-economic trends in late medieval and early modern times.

Prescribed texts

• Morton W S Japan: History and culture 1994

Recommended reading

• Ameson P J The medieval Japanese Daimyo 1979
• Berry M E Hideyoshi Harvard U P, 1982
• Gerstle A C (ed.) Eighteenth century Japan: Culture and society Allen and Unwin, 1990
• Hall J W Government and local power in Japan, 500-1700 1966
• Hall J W Japan: From prehistory to modern times 1970
• Hall JW and Mass J P Medieval Japan: Essays in institutional history 1974
• Hall J W, Nagahara K and Yamamura K (eds) Japan before Tokugawa 1981
• Hall J W and Toyoda T (eds) Japan in the Muromachi Age 1976
• Jansen M The Tokugawa world Harvard U P, 1992
• Mass J P and Hauser W B (eds) The Bakufu in Japanese history 1986
• Reischauer E O and Craig A M Japan: Tradition and transformation Houghton Mifflin, 1989
• Tsunoda R, de Bary W T and Keene D Sources of Japanese tradition
• Wheatley P and See T From court to capital: A tentative interpretation of the origins of the Japanese urban tradition Chicago U P, 1978