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Week 1 Tues Jan 5: Outline Discussion Board (see Canvas Discussion, closes 1/7 11:59 pm): Do you believe in ghosts? Thurs Jan 7: Outline
Week 2 Tues Jan 12:Outline Pre-recorded Lecture 1: Intro to Buddhism Pre-recorded Lecture 1 Outline Canvas quiz 1 (on Canvas under quizzes; due 11/19 11 am) Pre-recorded lecture 2: Intro to Heian period Pre-recorded lecture 2 outline Canvas Quiz 2 (on Canvas under quizzes; due 1/19 ll am) Discussion questions on Sugawara no Michizane (Upload to Assignments on Canvas)
Thurs Jan 14: Outline |
Week 1a Tues Jan 5: Intro to Class and Website JAPANESE RELIGIONS
Week 1b Thurs Jan 7: Japanese Shamanism a) [OL] Carmen Blacker, The Catalpa Bow c) [Japanese Tales] Stories about En no Gyoja:
Week 2a Tues Jan 12: Japanese Buddhism and Intro to Angry Ghosts On Buddhism a) Online lecture 1: Intro to Buddhism (see link at left) OPTIONAL READINGS ON BUDDHISM a. [OL] Robert Ellwood, Japanese Religion Angry Male Ghosts: Sugawara no Michizane On Heian period context a) Online lecture 1: Intro to Heian period, the political and social context behind the rise of angry ghosts in Heian Japan Readings
Week 2b Thurs Jan 14: Onmyôji: Abe no Seimei and Japanese Taoism Readings a)[OL] Wikipedia article on Onmyôdô click here b) [Japanese Tales] Stories about Abe no Seimei "Ying-Yang Lore" (xxix-xxx) Note: This will be a fun class with lots of videos relating to the movie Onmyôji starring the kyogen actor Nomura Mansai.
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Week 3 Tues Jan 19: Outline Online Lecture 3: Female possession in Heian period Canvas Quiz 3 (on Canvas under quizzes; due 1/19 11 am)
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Week 3a Tues Jan 19: Angry Female Ghosts: Mononoke and Lady Rokujô On Heian Period Context a) Online lecture 3 (see link at left) on different forms of possession in the Heian period and why pregnant women are vulnerable Readings a) Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, trans. Ivan Morris For discussion section: Wikipedia article on writing from a "real world" versus "in-universe" perspective when discussing fiction. Supplementary [optional] reading: click here for a synopsis of Tale of Genji (to give context for the chapter)
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Thurs Jan 21: Outline Online lecture 4: Kamakura period changes Canvas Quiz 4 (due 1/26 11 am) Week 4 Tues Jan 26: Outline Discussion Questions on Japanese Tales
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Week 3b Thurs Jan 21 and Week 4a Tues Jan 26: Hungry Ghosts, Blood Pool Hells, and Demons Kamakura period 1) Online lecture 4: about the transitional Kamakura period, especially its effects on women Readings a) [Jpn Tales]
Introduction, pp. xix-lvi Tales of Demons: **b) [OL] Taiheiki, trans. Helen McCullough c) Images of Hungry Ghosts and Hell d) [OL] Review: Robert Ellwood, Japanese Religion Further [optional] reading: William LaFleur, "Hungry Ghosts and Hungry People" This week you'll be given a chance to form groups for the group presentation assignment due weeks 9b and 10 a-b. See the Google Doc signup sheet under Collaborations on Canvas.
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Thurs January 28: Outline Online lecture 5 Shamanism in Noh Canvas Quiz 5 (due by classtime 2/2)
Week 5 Tues Feb 2: Outline Discussion questions on Aoi no Ue vs Nonomiya
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Week 4b Thurs January 28: Intro to Ghosts and Noh a)[OL] Synopsis and Translation of Kurozuka/ Adachigahara b)[OL] Aoi no Ue [English only, with introduction to Noh) See "photo story" for images Alternate version: [OL] Aoi no Ue [English and Japanese with stage directions; original text on left, translation on right, interspersed with detailed descriptions of music]. c )[J Trad Thtr] Karen Brazell, "Japanese Theater: A Living Tradition" (3-10, 24-39); "The Noh and Kyogen Theater: Elements of Performance" (115-125) d) [OL] Review: Tale of Genji, "Heartvine" and "The Sacred Tree" f) Images: Noh Masks Videos: "Tradition of Performing Arts in Japan: Noh" and "Aoi no Ue" (full production in Japanese only) Short youtube history of Japan (clean edition)
Week 5a: Tues Feb 2: Aoi no Ue a)[OL] Aoi no Ue [English only, with introduction to Noh) See "photo story" for images b) [OL] Nonomiya, translation by Royall Tyler, Japanese No Dramas (pp. 205-214) See"photo story" for images c) [OL] Review: Tale of Genji, "Heartvine" and "The Sacred Tree"
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Thurs Feb 4:Outline
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Week 5b Thurs Feb 4: Male Ghosts in Noh a) [OL] Michele Marra, "The Michizane Legend as Seen in the Noh Drama Raiden" (read intro, but translation by UCI student below is better) See "photo story" for images See images of Michizane story, including Noh Raiden(first act, last couple of minutes, Japanese only) Raiden (second act; starts from 4:40 Japanese only) Yashima(15 minute digest in Japanese) "The Spirit of Noh" with the late Noh actor and mask maker, Udaka Michishige; the performance at the end is Yashima
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Week 6 Tues Feb 9: Outline Discussion Questions on Kyogen plays Thursday Feb 11:
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Week 6a February 9: Kyogen--parodic ghosts, bumbling gods, and ineffectual priests a) [OL] Asahina Videos: "This is Kyogen" Week 6b February 11: Kyogen Continued (plus intro to Yokai) Kyogen a) [OL] Neck-pulling (Kubihiki) Videos: Mushrooms, Asahina, Neck-pulling, Owls Intro to Yokai (IMAGES) Videos: Amabie (a new Noh play, first performed 12/2020)
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Week 7 Tues Feb 16: Class outline Discussion Questions on Fox Tales
Thurs Feb 18: Class outline
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Week 7a Tues Feb 16: Intro to Foxes a) [OL] Blacker, The Catalpa Bow Video: Section on Foxes from Akira Kurosawa's Dreams Choose your group by today using Google Docs under Collaborations. Week 7b Thurs Feb 18: Foxes in Noh and Kyogen Videos: "Saigo no Kitsune" (Nomura Mansaku's last performance of Tsurigitsune); second act of Tsurigitsune Video; video of second act of Death Stone; and Tradition of Performing Arts in Japan: Kabuki Group Project Proposal DUE 5:00 p.m. TUESDAY February 23
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Week 8 Tues Feb 23: Canvas quiz 6 discussion questions Edo Peiod Female Ghosts Thurs Feb 25: Class Outline Week 9 Tues Mar 2: Discussion questions on Michizane in Puppet Theater
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Week 8a Tues Feb 23: Edo Period Female Ghosts NOTE: Discussion questions for this week will be to prep you for the Thursday lecture on Yotsuya Ghost Stories, so you need to read ahead Week 8b Thurs Feb 25: Yotsuya Ghost Stories a) [Trad J Thtr] Yotsuya Ghost Stories (Tôkaidô Yotsuya Kaidan) Act I (pp. 456-483) Videos: Cocoon Bunkamura performance of Yotsuya Kaidan Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan part 1 (Bando Tamasaburo as Oiwa, Kataoka Nizaemon XV as Iemon) Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan part 4: Snake mountain scene Week 9a Tues Mar 2: Michizane in Bunraku Puppet Theater
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Thurs Mar 4
Week 10 Tues Mar 9 Thurs Mar 11: Discussion forum (No discussion section) |
Group Project Presentations (schedule) Thursday March 4: Group Project Presentations (Upload today's presentations to the GroupProject-PPT in Assignments on canvas) Tuesday March 9: Group Project Presentations (Upload today's presentations to the GroupProject-PPT in Assignments on canvas) Thursday March 11: Group Project Presentations (Upload today's presentations to the GroupProject-PPT in Assignments on canvas) FRIDAY March 12, 8:00 p.m. (PST.: Group Project papers due in GroupProject-Paper in Assignments on Campus. SUNDAY March 14, Midnight (PST): All discussion questions (late and revised) are due. |
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