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On 3 lists:

• http://japanese-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/womens_status_in_japan, “Women’s Status in Medieval Japan: Female Marriage and Labour in Japan’s 14th-17th Centuries.”
• www.womeninworldhistory.com/sample-08.html – on women warriors

On 2 lists:

• www2.gol.com/users/friedman/writings/p1.html, “The Changing Roles of Women in Japanese Society,”
• http://www.koryu.com/library/wwj1.html – on women warriors.

On one list:

• http://asianhistory.about.com/od/imagegalleries/ss/samuraiwomen.htm – female Samurai.
• http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_generate/JAPAN.html – compilation of female writers from Japan
• http://homepages.which.net/~james.phillips/hist.htm female wrestlers in Japan
• http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art153.asp – brief but informative reality of what exactly a Geisha is, and how their were different “ranks” among them, and how this was, in many ways, far from the ideal life for a young Japanese girl.
• http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art24550.asp female samurai rule in ancient Japan.
• http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/03womens_studies_kline.html – Resources in Japanese Women’s History.
• http://www.immortalgeisha.com
• http://www.iz2.or.jp/english/fukusyoku/kosode/50.htm – ancient hairstyles of Japanese Women,
• http://www.samurai-archives.com/women.html – specific women famous in Japanese history. It covers their roles in history and society.
• http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/WOMEN.HTM – Women and Women’s Communities in Ancient Japan
• www.iop.or.jp/0313/kurihara.pdf, “A History of Women in Japanese Buddhism: Niceren’s Perspectives on the Enlightenment of Women,” told of how Buddhism helped women, but also injured them by labeling women “impure.”

Japan has been taking on some of the Western holidays as fun traditions — Valentine’s Day and Christmas being the obvious ones — and there’s now some movement on Halloween, as well. (Link Fixed!)

Here’s a few things that we discussed in the first class:

• My review of Tom Cruise’s The Last Samurai
• My comments on Stephen Turnbull’s Ninja and a comment on ninja from an eminent historian