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HSY2210/3210

Japan: origins to 1800

Proposed to be offered next in 1998

Lincoln Li

8 points
* Two lectures and one tutorial per week
* Prerequisites: A first-year sequence in history or Japanese studies

Objectives To introduce issues of historical interpretation for the origins and development of Japanese culture and society so as to enable appreciation of the traditional roots of modern Japan.

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.

Assessment second year Written (4000 words): 50%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
* Class participation/attendance: 10%

Assessment third year Written paper and essay (4000 words): 50%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
* Class participation/attendance: 10%
* Third-year students will be expected to submit work of a higher standard.

Prescribed texts

Morton W S Japan: History and culture 1994

Recommended texts

Ameson P J The medieval Japanese Daimyo 1979

Berry M E Hideyoshi Harvard UP, 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


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