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Category: Medieval

Kamakura-Muromachi-Warring States period

Medieval/Teaching

The Jiankang Empire

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I don’t usually post book reviews here, and this is not really a book review, but I got a lot out of Andrew Chittick’s new book The Jiankang Empire in Chinese a...

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/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...

Art/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/Pedagogy

Mystery Circles on Early Armor

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

What is that circular disk which early medieval samurai wear over their swords? Is it a weight, to keep it from flopping around while horseriding? That’s ...

Academia/Events/Japan/Medieval/安土桃山

A bounty of medieval symposia

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

Premodernists, particularly those who focus on history, sometimes feel gloomy about the state of premodern Japanese studies in the U.S., where a number of large...

Academia/Historiography/Medieval

Relationship between Modern and Pre-modern studies

Posted on April 1, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

The relationship between modern and pre-modern studies in history is the source of lively debate and often much mutual misunderstanding. I’d like to welco...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Japan/Law/Medieval/Popular Culture/平成

Only in Japan: Yakuza Sued

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The New York Times is reporting on tensions between the Dojinkai and the civilians living in the neighborhood of their headquarters. Two features of this are wo...

Academia/Historiography/Japan/Medieval/Teaching

The Soul of Japan

Posted on October 21, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 8 Comments

I’m teaching a survey course on premodern Japanese history this semester. It focuses on medieval and early modern Japan, and I wanted the first paper to d...

Academia/English/Historiography/Japan/Medieval/Popular Culture

A brief rant at an easy target

Posted on November 9, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

So I’m grading my latest World History quiz, and one of the terms is “samurai.” Being a two semester World History sequence, I didn’t sp...

Archaeology/Japan/Medieval/安土桃山

Update on Honnôji

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Professor Matthew Stavros of the University of Sydney (seen in the third photo below) wrote in response to my post on the discovery of roof tiles from Honnôji a...

Academia/China-Japan/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Medieval/Pedagogy/Premodern

Reflecting on a semester

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

We’ve been talking about our syllabi for a while here at the Frogs, but we haven’t done a lot of post-semester commentary. I had two Asia courses th...

Academia/bibliography/English/General/Japan/Medieval/Pedagogy

The course we all have to teach

Posted on March 2, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

Alan Baumler, my colleague from next door has sent along this “call to arms” As some of our regular readers may remember, there is a Frog tradition ...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval/Memory/War/江戸

Summer Reading Note: Ninja

Posted on July 20, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I’ve finished Stephen Turnbull’s Ninja: the True Story of Japan’s Secret Warrior Cult, and I have good news for current and prospective gradua...

China-Japan/English/General/Japan/Korea-Japan/Medieval/Memory/War

1590s Military Technology Gaps

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 20 Comments

I recently ran across two separate references to the Hideyoshi invasions of Korea, both of which credited Hideyoshi’s initial success to firearms. That di...

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