For a visual depiction of the Imperial politics at the heart of Nijo’s Confessions, here’s George Sansom’s diagrams
Category: resources
Japanese Womens History: Spring 2012
A quick tour of the website:
- The main course page is here, or you can find it above in the header. This is mostly a schedule of readings and assignments, to which I will add links for resources, full assignment handouts and other material as necessary.
- You can find the full syllabus, with course policies, etc., here, or through the “Past Syllabi” page in the header or from the link on the main course page. The Grad Student Addendum may be found here, and through the other routes as well.
- As the header says, there’s a page of Japanese historical resources, including links to some of my powerpoint slide sets and picture collections, teaching resources, etc. The most important link on that page at the moment is the Student Information Form, which you are required to copy, fill out, and email back to me before Thursday.
- Your other homework for Thursday is to find 5 interest sites on the web relating to Japanese women in history. “Interesting” does not necessarily mean good, but it should mean interesting. Avoid wikipedia and other obvious reference sources. Email me what you find, with comments on each one, before 9am Thursday, so I have time to put together a page for everyone to see.
Japanese Women’s History: Book List
Here is the list of books for purchase for Hist 532 (700-07) for Spring 2012
- Murasaki Shikibu, Diary of Lady Murasaki, trans. Richard Bowring, Penguin, 1999.
- Karen Brazell, ed. and trans., The Confessions of Lady Nijo, Stanford UP, 1973.
- Yamakawa Kikue, Kate Wildman Nakai (Translator), Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life, 1997, Stanford UP
- Robert John Smith, Ella L. Wiswell, Women of Suye Mura, 1982, Chicago UP.
- Mikiso Hane, ed. and trans., Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan. University of California Press, 1993.
- Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow and Atsuko Kameda, eds., Japanese Women: New Feminist Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future, The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1994. ISBN-13: 978-1558610941
- Kaori Okano, Young Women in Japan: Transitions to Adulthood, Routledge, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0415590518
This is more or less the order we’ll be reading them, so if you have to prioritize, start at the top! Feel free to buy these from the bookstore, which has them on order, or from any other source. We will be reading all of them.
Statistics
Japan Statistical Yearbook: Population
added later: The World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report has great country-by-country and global comparisons of contemporary women’s issues.
Resource: East Asia Image Collection at Lafayette College
The East Asia Image Collections, an open-access digital repository
hosted at Lafayette College, has recently added 259 postcards and 300
negatives. The website now contains over 3700 records of imagery from
East Asia, mostly from the period 1905-1945, with one subcollection
of images from 1950s Japan.http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia
Here are the descriptions of our two most recently added subcollections:
Imperial Postcard Collection
The Imperial Postcard Collection consists of imagery from Japan and
its colonies, wartime China, and selected areas of the wider
imperialized world, from 1900 to 1945. “Manners and Customs” cards
from Manchuria, North and Central China, Korea, Honshu, and Hokkaido
are prominent. Also included are images associated with the
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), the Manchurian Incident (1931) and
the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937), as well as portraits of Japanese
heroes, royalty and statesmen. Cards that cataloged and displayed the
world’s colonized peoples according to racial type or ethnic
classification are also featured.Gerald & Rella Warner Dutch East Indies Negatives
US Consul to Taiwan Gerald Warner and his wife Rella created these
275 photographic negatives between June 11, 1938 and July 27, 1938.
Most (257) were taken in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) during a
vacation from consular duties in Taiwan. The remainder were taken in
Hong Kong harbor (17) and Shantou (1). The following themes are most
prominent: working conditions and equipment in ports and harbors,
tourist attractions (including Borobudur, Balinese drama, and temple
architecture), agricultural scenes, village life, and local markets.
The captions for these images are taken from hand-written comments in
the Warners’ photo albums. Gift of the Estate of Gerald and Rella Warner.