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Category: Premodern

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...

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:...

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...

Archaeology/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Premodern/Science and Technology

Tomb Near Artifacts that Date to Himiko’s Purported Reign Dates Identified

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Am I the only person who had a bad reaction to the Tomb of legendary Japanese Queen Himiko found headlines I’ve been seeing? The article says Archaeologis...

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...

Archaeology/Current/Recent Events/Japan/Premodern

Imperial Tombs Finally Opened to Archaeologists…Sorta

Posted on January 6, 2007 by Nick Kapur / 2 Comments

It was quietly announced this week that researchers would be allowed to examine 11 ancient Japanese tombs, said to be the final resting places of Japan’s ...

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