My resource pages:
- Basic principles of Buddhism
- The Confucian Great Learning
- A very short chronology of the Kamakura era
- A comparison of Japan and Korea to 1500
- Basic thinkers and principles of Neo-Confucianism
- Cast and Scene list for Chushingura
- Chronology of the bakumatsu period
- The Charter Oath of the Meiji Emperor
- Meiji Constitution
- Chronology of Japan’s Imperialistic Age
- 1947 Constitution
- Painfully Short Survey of Japanese Women’s History
Reviews
- My review of “The Last Samurai” at HNN
- My review of “47 Ronin” at HNN
- Reviews of historical fiction in English
Images, Pictures, Slides
- Pictures from my Flickr Collections
- Powerpoints
Outside resources
- Historical Scrolls Project: Heiji Scroll and Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions
of Japan - Japan Focus, which publishes analysis and history related to Japan and East Asia.
- Study guide for Donald Keene’s biography of the Meiji Emperor.
- Samurai Sword Technology and Aesthetics. Making a Japanese Bow (Video)
- A short guide to Bunraku puppets and theater
- Lots of Bunraku on YouTube, including this and this and this
- Some Noh on Youtube, including “Aoi” from Genji. Here is a UNESCO site on Noh/Kyogen
- An animated age/sex distribution chart for 1930-2055 (projected)
- Outline maps of Japan
- 1938 gas attack posters
- MIT’s Visualizing Cultures unit: “Throwing Off Asia I: Woodblock Prints of Meiji Westernization”
- Shogun-ki interview with Samurai historian Karl Friday
- Nanzan University Japanese Religion Photographic Archive
- Ukiyo-e.org, a collection of online images of Japanese Woodblock Prints
Administrative/Teaching Resources