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Category: 江戸

Talks about the Tokugawa period.

Japan/Teaching/江戸

Teaching Tokugawa math

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Do you teach Tokugawa Japan? If so you probably spend some time talking about the rise of popular education, the terakoya temple schools etc. I found a good boo...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/Premodern/江戸

Yes, I watched it.

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

As Jamie Noguchi said, I see these movies so you don’t have to: my review of 47 Ronin is up at HNN. As expected, it’s a blazing failure, with few de...

Books and Articles/English/Japan/Literature/Premodern/US-Japan/幕末/江戸

What do Samurai Have To Do With It?

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I saw Margi Preus’s Heart of a Samurai (Amulet, 2010) and the title alone made me cringe: just what the world needs, another kid book touting the putative...

Academia/Anecdotes/Books and Articles/English/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/War/明治/江戸

Seppuku: A Samurai Suicide Miscellany

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

For a little entertainment this Thanksgiving, I read Andrew Rankin’s Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide (Kodansha, 2011).1 Since I’m teaching bot...

Cultural/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/江戸

The Three Stages of Ninja

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

The ninja question came up last week in my Samurai class — we were talking about possible writing projects — so I had to do my ninja spiel, which ha...

Academia/Books and Articles/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts/Memory/Pedagogy/幕末/江戸

Turnbull Book on Ako

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Stephen Turnbull, one of the most prolific and controversial writers on Japanese military history, has written a book on the 47 Samurai incident. The Samurai Ar...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Pedagogy/Popular Culture/US-Japan/江戸

Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series is intended to educate and entertain by taking its protagonists to different times and places, real and mythic...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/US-Japan/安土桃山/江戸

Young Samurai: Way of the Dragon and the Battle of Osaka

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The third installment of Chris Bradford’s Young Samurai series shifts modes mid-book, when the action moves from the original Harry Potter-esque bildungsr...

Archaeology/English/Historiography/Japan/Premodern/江戸

The Lead Poisoning Thesis

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Some research is startling, and some research confirms what we already guessed or assumed, but there’s some research which falls between these categories:...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/martial arts/Popular Culture/江戸

Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword: Ancient Culture, Modern Politics

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Reading The Way of the Sword while listening to the “Restoring Honor” event, I began to wonder if our current shift to discourses of honor and warri...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Memory/US-Japan/江戸

Judge Ooka’s Sidekick, part two: The Ghost In the Tokaido Inn and In Darkness, Death

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

After reading the last two installments in the Hooblers’ samurai detective series, I got hold of the first two. There are still two I have not read, obvio...

Books and Articles/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/US-Japan/江戸

Judge Ooka’s Sidekick: A Samurai Never Fears Death and The Sword that Cut the Burning Grass by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Wandering through the children’s section of our local public library with my son, I encountered a new-to-me children’s mystery series based in Tokug...

US-Japan/幕末/江戸

Aizawa Yasushi on America

Posted on February 23, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

In the Prefatory Remarks to Aizawa Yasushi‘s 1825 New Theses (新論) we find an interesting little gloss on the relationship of the “Divine Realm”...

Academia/Historiography/Japan/Medieval/Pedagogy/Premodern/Teaching/江戸

Dinner first, then dessert

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I was going to post about it here, but Another Damned Medievalist raised the question of how to deal with primary sources in a class where students lack importa...

Academia/English/Intellectual/Japan/Literature/Translation/江戸

Ueda Akinari translation

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

PMJS has published William Clarke and Wendy Cobcroft’s annotated translation of Ueda Akinari’s Tandai Shoshinroku, available as a free PDF and also ...

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