JPN/EAS 380
Text and Image in
Japanese Literature
Weeks 1 ~ 7

Syllabus, Class Policies

Abbott, The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative, ch. 1, 2, 9 (pp. 1-24,105-122)
McCloud "Show and Tell" (pp. 138-161)
Carrier, "Words and Pictures Bound Together" (pp. 61-74)

Monday, September 2nd • Labor Day Holiday - No class

Mostow, "Painted Poems, Forgotten Words" (pp. 323-346)
Sorensen, "Screens and Poems, Contexts, and Images" (pp. 31-39)

Images of various poem screens and poem-pictures

Sang, "The narration of tales, the narration of paintings" (pp. 37-54)
Lippit, "Figure and facture in the Genji scrolls: text, calligraphy, paper, and painting" (pp. 49-72)

Video "The Genji Scrolls Reborn"

Kaminishi, "Introduction" to Explaining Pictures (pp. 3-16)
Hirasawa, "The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution" (pp. 1-39)

Video "Preaching from Pictures"
Images of various Mandala

Takahata, "12th Century Moving Pictures" (pp. 31-42)
Tyler, "The Flying Storehouse" (pp. 95-97)

"Shigisan Engi Emaki"

DeBary, "Taira and Minamoto," "Hogen Disturbance," "Heiji Disturbance" (pp. 269-276)
Murase, "Japanese Screen Paintings of the Hogen and Heiji Disturbances" (pp. 193-228)

"Hogen Monogatari Emaki"
"Heiji Monogatari Emaki"

Araki, "Otogi-zôshi and Nara ehon: A Field of Study in Flux" (pp. 1-20)
Chigusa, "Hachikazuki: A Muromachi Short Story" (pp. 303-331)

Nara ehon and emaki versions of "Hachikazuki"

Kornicki, Excerpts from The Book in Japan (pp. 136-142, 170-179)
Togasaki, "The Emergence of the Atonomous Image..." (pp. 95-105)
May, "Books and Book Illustrations in Early Modern Japan" (pp. 25-44)

Images of various kusazôshi

Rucinski, "A Japanese Burlesque: Nise Monogatari" (pp. 1-18)

Images from Saga-bon "Ise Monogatari" and "Nise Monogatari"

Adam Kern, "The Floating World of An'ei Tenmei Edo," pp. 29-94
Begin reading Santô Kyôden's "Edo Umare Uwaki no Kabayaki"

Adam Kern, "Manga Culture and the Visual-Verbal Imagination," pp. 129-180
Finish reading Santô Kyôden's "Edo Umare Uwaki no Kabayaki"

Charlotte Eubanks, "Visual Vernacular," pp. 57-68
Rebecca Salter, "Leisure Pleasure Play," pp. 130-163 of Japanese Popular Prints