ISSUES IN PREMODERN JAPANESE HISTORY*

国際教養学部

AHST4580

コース情報

担当教員: LINNEPE Andre

単位数: 4

年度: 2024

学期: 春学期

曜限: 火5, 金5

形式: 対面授業

レベル: 400

アクティブラーニング: なし

他学部履修: 可

評価方法

出席状況

10%

授業参加

10%

リアクションペーパー

20%

レポート

60%

その他

Explanation to the above category "Report assignments, mid-term/final paper": Mid-term paper and final paper will be evaluated separately with each 30 %.

詳細情報

概要

The profound transformations of Japanese society during the early modern period (also: “Tokugawa period” or “Edo period”, 17th to early 19th ct.) are considered crucial for later historical developments up to the present day. However, oversimplifying narratives about the formation of the modern nation-state as well as essentialist assumptions regarding the characteristics of Japanese culture have been widely refuted in recent scholarship. Instead, a shift of focus on primary sources formerly considered unimportant as well as the application of a wide range of methodological approaches from the field of cultural studies and intellectual history has stimulated critical discussions about the foundations of early modern society. This seminar introduces students to recent scholarship in the field and discusses methodological trends as well as open research questions. We will survey monographs and research articles on Tokugawa period status society, political institutions and practices, social behavior, arts, learned discourse etc. to determine the range of topics discussed in recent scholarship and analyze its theoretical assumptions as well as methodological approaches. In addition, because the translation of contemporary primary sources is an important scholarly activity in the field, we will examine the techniques of historical and cultural translation applied in new publications.

目標

This lecture offers students an opportunity to train their critical reading skills. They can expect to come out of this course better prepared to engage in complex discussions about the cultural and intellectual history of early modern Japan based on a profound knowledge of methodological trends in recent scholarship.

授業外の学習

In addition to the required reading, students are expected to look up theoretical and methodological terminology in dictionaries and databases (sources for reference will be introduced in class). For the preparation of each lecture, it is strongly recommended to consult general introductions to the cultural, historical, and intellectual background of the early modern period in Japan. The following time schedule for the preparation of this lecture is recommended: 1. Preparation of class material and reading assignments (70 minutes), 2. Work on class assignments (60 minutes), 3. Review class lecture and look up dictionaries and databases (60 minutes)

所要時間: At least 190 minutes per lecture.

スケジュール

Topic: Introduction - Guide to class procedures, schedule, evaluation etc. - Thematic overview of this lecture - Guide to required readings and reference works (dictionaries and databases)
Topic: Status Society (1) - Required Reading: (Research Article) David Howell, “Territoriality and Collective Identity in Tokugawa Japan” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Status Society (2) - Required Reading: (Research Article) Gerald Groemer, “The Creation of the Edo Outcast Order” - Class format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Status Society (3) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Maren Ehlers, Give and Take. Poverty and the Status Society in Early Modern Japan (Chpt. “Benevolence, Charity, or Duty? Hunger Relief in the Castle Town” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Status Society (4) - Required Reading: (Primary Sources in Translation) Buyo Inshi (author); M. Teeuwen, K. Wildman-Nakai (transl.) Lust and Commerce: A Account of What I have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai (Chpt. "Warriors") - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Political Culture (1) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Luke Roberts, Performing the Great Peace (Chpt. “The Geographies of Politics”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Political Culture (2) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Constantine N. Vaporis, Tour of Duty (Chpt. “Carriers of Culture”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Political Culture (3) - Required Reading: (Monograph) James McMullen, The Worship of Confucius in Japan (Chpt. “Confucian Spectacle in Edo: Hayashi Razan and Cultural Display”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Political Culture (4) - Required Reading: (Primary Source in Translation) G. G. Rowley (transl.), Ōgimachi Machiko (author), In the Shelter of the Pine (Chpt. “Blessed Dew. 1709, New Year Through the Second Month”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Social Behavior and Etiquette (1) - Required Reading: (Research Article) Yokoyama Toshio, “Even a sardine’s head becomes holy: The role of household encyclopedias in sustaining civilization in pre-industrial Japan” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Social Behavior and Etiquette (2) - Required Reading: (Research Article) Markus Ruetterman, “‘So That We Can Study Letter-Writing’: The Concept of Epistolary Etiquette in Premodern Japan” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Social Behavior and Etiquette (3) - Required Reading: (Primary Sources in Translation) Michael Kinski, “Basic Japanese Etiquette Rules and Their Popularization Four Edo-Period Texts, Transcribed, Translated and Annotated” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Diplomacy and International Thought (1) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Adam Clulow, The Company and the Shogun (Chpt. “Royal Letters from the Republic”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Diplomacy and International Thought (2) - Required Reading: (Research Article) David Mervart, “A closed country in the open seas. Engelbert Kaempfer's Japanese solution for European modernity's predicament” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Diplomacy and International Thought (3) - Required Reading: (Primary Source in Translation) Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey, Kaempfer’s Japan. Tokugawa Culture Observed - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Arts (1) - Required Reading: (Research Article) Tanimura Reiko, “Tea of the warrior in the late Tokugawa period” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Arts (2) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Eiko Ikegami, Bonds of Civility (Chpt. “Categorial Protest from the Floating World: Fashion, State, and Gender”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Arts (3) - Required Reading: Monograph: Timon Screech, The Lens Within the Heart. The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan (Chpt. "Seeing In") - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Economic Thought (1) - Required Reading: (Research Article) Annick Horiuchi, “Kaiho Seiryō, or the importance of discernment” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Economic Thought (2) - Required Reading: (Primary Source in Translation) Michael Kinski, Kaiho Seiryō, Talks about Teachings of the Past - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Public and Private Spheres (1) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Mary Elizabeth Berry, Japan in Print (Chpt. “The Library of Public Information”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Public and Private Spheres (2) - Required Reading: (Monograph) William Puck Brecher, Japan’s Private Spheres (Chpt. "‘Publicizing’ the Private") - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Public and Private Spheres (3) - Required Reading: (Research Article) Bettina Gramlich-Oka, “‘Knowing the [Confucian] Way’ and the Political Sphere” - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Scholarship and Poetry in the 18 ct. (1) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Peter Flueckiger, Imagining Harmony (Chpt. “The Confucian Way as Cultural Transformation”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Scholarship and Poetry in the 18th ct. (2) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Peter Flueckiger, Imagining Harmony (Chpt. “Motoori Norinaga and the Cultural Construction of Japan”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Meiji Restauration (1) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Mark Ravina, To Stand with the Nations of the World (Chpt. “Reform and Revolution”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Topic: Meiji Restauration (2) - Required Reading: (Monograph) Daniel Botsman, Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan (Chpt. “Restoration and Reform: The Birth of Prison in Japan”) - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion
Summary and Final Discussion / - Class Format: Lecture / Class Discussion

教科書

All readings are available on Moodle.

参考書

書籍情報はありません。