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Through reading pairs of books and book reviews written since 2000, this course highlights new themes and recent developments, and provides a concise overview of the current research in medieval Japanese history and religion.
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An examination of civic engagement in the processes of formulating and revising the Japanese constitution, from the 1880s to the present, in comparative perspective.
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Edo culture considered through the prism of the comparative history of curiosity. Topics include the vogue of natural history, collections of curiosities, erotic art, travel and tourism, monsters and ghosts, optical devices, anatomy.
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An introductory course designed for students to understand some central values in Japanese religious culture. It first observes popular religious ceremonies, festivals, and rituals and studies their historical transformation; then investigates the interaction between Buddhism and native Japanese religion; and finally studies the permeating influence of religion on traditional Japanese art and literature. The concluding section considers wide-ranging contemporary and traditional religious issues in Japanese popular culture.
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This course will offer a look at gender representation found in original historical records such as letters and diaries, and examine women's roles in society, ways of life, and sexuality in Japan from the 12th century to the end of 16th century with a comparison to their male contemporaries - the Samurai.
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Examination of religion and society in Japan from 1600-1912, beginning with an era of state control over religious institutions and religious affiliations of the populace, followed by the demise of the Edo-period system and diversification of religious practice in context of rapid social change, modernization, and imperialism during the Meiji period. Separate section for students able to utilize primary sources in Japanese will explore the Maruzen Meiji Microfilm collection in the Harvard-Yenching Library.
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An examination of religion and society from the end of the Meiji period (1912) to the present. This course explores the meaning of the modern in Japanese religions, the development of the public sphere and religion's relations with it, religion and nationalism, and the interconnections of religion and social change with materialism, consumerism, pacifism, and spiritualism.
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Examines the artistic output, biography, and reception history of the Zen-monk painter Sesshu (1420-1506), Japan's most famous premodern artist. In addition to Sesshu's landscape paintings, portraits, and Buddhist figure paintings, topics for consideration will include the historical milieu in Kyoto and the western provinces during the Onin War (1467-77), the political power of the Ouchi clan (Sesshu's patrons), Sesshu's relationship with other monks and Zen institutions, and his eventful trip to Ming China (c. 1467).
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An examination of Shinto, emphasizing its concepts of deity (kami), patterns of ritual and festival, shrines as religious and social institutions, political culture and interactions with party politics, and its contribution to contemporary youth culture.
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This course offers practical experience in the design and implementation of courses in Japanese religions. Students will compile syllabi, plan discussion sessions, compose examination exercises, and consider relevant multi-media material, as well as conducting practice lectures and classes.
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This graduate seminar surveys the most significant scholarly literature on the cultural history of Japan's Muromachi period (ca. 1392-1573), with an emphasis on recent publications. Topics to be explored include the built environment of the capital and its institutions; cultural patronage and politics; gender and representation; the material culture of death rituals, funerals, and religious ritual; and the status of the imperial institution during this period.
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Focus for 2009-10: the imagination of money, and its relationship to the science, pictures, and writings of the Edo period. Special attention to the transition from cultures of curiosity to cultures of irony.
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State Shinto: an examination of aspects of Shinto history and practice, 1868-1945, emphasizing recent scholarship seeking to clarify the proper use and definition of the term State Shinto.
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