REQUIRED AND SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS

REQUIRED BOOKS

Royall Tyler, trans. The Tale of Genji [Genji]
Karen Brazell, ed. Traditional Japanese Theater [TJT]
Enchi Fumiko, Masks

All other readings are available in PDF format by clicking by the title on the syllabus.  For full citations see course bibliography below.

COURSE BIBLIOGRAPHY (in order of appearance)

"Chronology of Japanese History" from John Whitney Hall, Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times (Dell Publishing Co., 1970), pp. 358-61.

William McCullough, "Japanese Marriage Institutions in the Heian Period,"
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 27 (1967), pp. 103-67.

The Gossamer Years (Kagerô nikki), translated by Edward Seidensticker (Charles Tuttle, 1964), pp. 33-47.

Richard Bowring, Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji (Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 1-21.

Excerpts from The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Richard Bowring (Princeton University Press, 1982), pp.123, 125, 131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141.

"The Lady Who Admired Vermin" in Helen McCullough, ed., Classical Japanese Prose (Stanford University Press, 1990), pp. 256-63

Hitomi Tonomura, "Women and Inheritance in Japan's Early Warrior Society," Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 32, no. 3 (July 1990), pp. 592-623.

Synopsis of Torikaebaya (The Changelings) from Earl Miner, ed., Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature (Princeton University Press, 1985), pp. 248-50.

"Aoi no Ue" from Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkôkai, trans., The Noh Drama vol. 2 (Tuttle, 1955), pp. 89-102.

Synopsis of "Kurozuka" (Adachigahara) from P.G. O'Neill, A Guide To Noh (Hinoki Shoten, 1953), p. 92.

Synopsis of "The Fortified Beard (Hige Yagura)" from Don Kenny, Guide to Kyogen (Tuttle, ), pp. 87-88.

"The Stone God," translated by Carolyn Morely, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1988), pp. 59-68

"The Drunken Wife (Inabado)" from Donald Kenny, The Kyogen Book ( Japan Times, 1989), pp. 58-63.

Gail Lee Bernstein, "Introduction" in Recreating Japanese Women: 1600-1945 (University of California Press, 1991), pp. 1-14.

Brenda Jordan, "Yûrei: Tales of Female Ghosts," from Japanese Ghosts and Demons, edited by Stephen Addiss (George Braziller, 2001), pp. 25-33.

Jennifer Robertson, "The Shingaku Woman: Straight from the Heart," from Recreating Japanese Women: 1600-1945 (University of California Press, 1991), pp. 88-107.

Excerpts from The Actors Analects, translated by Charles J. Dunn and Bunzô Torio (Columbia University Press, 1970), pp. 49-54

Jennifer Robertson, Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 1998), pp. 1-24.

Enchi Fumiko, Masks

FURTHER SUGGESTED READING

General study of Heian Society:

Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Kodansha Globe)

On marriage in Heian Society:

Wakita Haruko, "Marriage and Property in Premodern Japan from the Perspective of Women's History," Suzanne Gay, trans., Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1. (Winter, 1984), pp. 73-99.

Peter Nickerson, "The Meaning of Matrilocality: Kinship, Property, and Politics in Mid-Heian," Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 48 no. 4 (Winter, 1993), pp. 429-467).

On shamanism and possession:

Carmen Blacker, The Catalpa Bow (various editions available)

On Tale of Genji:

Norma Field, The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji (Princeton University Press, 1987).

Edward Kamens, ed., Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genj." (New York: Modern Language Association, 1993).

Haruo Shirane, The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji' (Stanford University Press,  1987).

Royall Tyler, "'I am I': Genji and Murasaki." Monumenta Nipponica vol. 54 no. 4 (1999).