Monday, Jan. 10th • Introduction and Historical Background

Syllabus, Class Policies, Historical background

Wednesday, Jan.12th • The Sengoku Period and Unifiication

“The Regime of the Unifiers” (BB)
"The Evangelic Furnace" (SJT pp. 127-135)
“Ieyasu and the Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate” (SJT pp. 7-18, 26-27)
"The Tokugawa Peace" (SJT pp. 1-6)
“Early Modern Japan” (EMJL pp. 1-20)

Monday, Jan. 17th • Early Tokugawa Confucianism

“Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period” (SJT pp. 28-74)

Wednesday, Jan 19th • The Spread of Neo-Confucianism

“The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan” (SJT pp. 75-126)

Monday, Jan. 24th • The Beginnings of Tokugawa Print Culture

“Kana Booklets and the Emergence of a Print Culture (EMJL pp. 21-41)
"A Japanese Burlesque: Nise Monogatari" (BB)

Wednesday, Jan. 26th • Early haikai

“Early Haikai Poetry and Poetics” (EMJL pp. 170-177)
Excerpt from Traditional Japanese Poetry (BB)

Monday, Jan. 31st • Development of Japanese Neo-Confucianism

“Confucian Revisionists” (SJT pp. 158-216)

Wednesday, Feb. 2nd • Education for the Elite and the Commoner

“Varieties of Neo-Confucian Education” (SJT pp. 217-254)
“Popular Instruction” (SJT pp. 255-288)