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Category: Medieval

Kamakura-Muromachi-Warring States period

Academia/Art/Cultural/Education/English/General/Japan/Medieval/幕末

Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls

Posted on April 21, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Reading over Fukuzawa’s Autobiography for class, I ran across a nice passage: However much we studied, our work and knowldge had practically no connection...

China-Japan/Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval/Religion

The Gateless Gate Online

Posted on March 11, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Here is the gateway to The Gateless Gate. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. But it’s a real treasure of a document, and a very nicely done site. Granted, mu...

General/Japan/Medieval/Translation/幕末/明治

Restoration or Renovation?

Posted on February 21, 2005 by Nick Kapur / 8 Comments

I’ve always found it interesting how certain events in Japanese history have become indelibly associated with a canonical English translation that often h...

Cultural/English/Japan/Medieval

Why I love classical literature

Posted on October 27, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

From Yoshida Kenkō’s Tsurezuregusa, aka Essays in Idleness (Stephen Carter translation in McCullough’s Classical Japanese Prose, p. 416) 189 Today y...

English/General/Japan/Medieval

自己紹介: Thomas Ekholm

Posted on October 25, 2004 by Thomas Ekholm / 1 Comment

My name is Thomas Ekholm and is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Göteborg (Gothenburg) University, Sweden. I have a masters degree in Japanese and equivalent of a...

English/Japan/Korea-Japan/Medieval/War

Why did the Mongols Attack Hakata Bay Twice?

Posted on October 15, 2004 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I’ve been doing Japanese history for fifteen years, now, and Chinese history for a decade, and I’ve never figured out why the Mongols, after their f...

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