Curso impartido a estudiantes del Programa de Maestria en Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México, de agosto a diciembre de 2013.

 

Tema 1. Visión de la historia y culturas de Japón

Tema 2. Poblamiento de los archipiélagos de Japón y Ryūkyū y la cultura paleolítica tardía

Lecturas básicas:
-Pearson, Richard J. Windows on the Japanese Past. Cap. 10 y 11, pp.191-218.
-Barnes, Gina. China, Korea and Japan. The Rise of Civilization in East Asia. Cap.4. (Innovation of Modern Humans), pp.53-68
Lecturas complementarias:
-International Research Center for Japanese Studies. International Symposium 4. Japanese as a Member of the Asian and Pacific Populations, Kioto, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1992. Artículos de Omoto, Hōrai y Hanihara. 139-160, 245-251.
–International Symposium 6. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese. Kioto, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1996. Artículos de Matsuura, Ikawa-Smith y Wang & Ogura. 181-197, 257-264, 309-334.

Tema 3. Época neolítica: periodo Jōmon

Lecturas básicas:
-Hanihara, Kazuro, 1990. Emishi, Ezo, and Ainu: An anthropological perspective. Nichibunken Japan Review 1:35-48.
-Barnes, Gina L., 1993. China, Korea and Japan: The Rise of Civilization in East Asia, Cap. 5 (Littoral Foragers), pp.69-91, y Cap.6 (Agricultural Beginnings), pp.92-107.
-Imamura, Keiji, 1996. Prehistoric Japan: New Perspective on Insular East Asia, Chapter 8 (Plant foods and the Middle Jomon culture), pp.93-109.
Lecturas complementarias:
-Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko, 1995. «The Jomon, the Ainu, and the Okinawans: the changing politics of ethnic identity in Japanese archaeology», en Communicating with Japan: Images Past, Present, and Future, edited by D. J. Dicks, pp.43-56.
-Pearson, R. Windows…, Caps. 12-17.

Tema 4. Época Yayoi

Lecturas básicas:
-Barnes, China, Cap. 11 y 13, pp.168-191, 208-221
-Pearson, R. Windows…, Cap. 18
Lecturas complementarias:
-Hudson, Mark & Barnes, Gina L. “Yoshinogari” en Monumenta Nipponica, 46:2 (1991), p. 211-235.
-Ishida, Eiichiroo. Japanese Culture. A Study of Origins and Characteristics
Hudson, Mark J., 1990. From Toro to Yoshinogari: Changing perspectives on
Yayoi archaeology. Bibliographic Reviews of Far Eastern Archaeology, pp.63-111. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Tema 5. Época de montículos funerales kofun

Lecturas básicas:
-Barnes, China, Cap. 14, pp. 222-245.
-Edwards, Walter, 1991. Buried discourse: the Toro archaeological site and
Japanese national identity in the early postwar period. Journal of Japanese Studies 17:1-23.
Lecturas complementarias:
-Barnes, Gina L. Protohistoric Yamato Archaeology of the First Japanese State.

Tema 6. Estado del Yamato

Lecturas básicas:
-De Bary et al Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol.1, Cap.2, pp.17-39.
-Lu, David John. Sources of Japanese history, Vol I, cap. 2, pp. 19-48.
Lecturas complementarias:
-Nakamura, Hajime A History of the Development of Japanese Thought from AD 592 to 1868. Cap. 1, pp. 1-38
-Nakamura, Hajime Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India, China, Tibet and Japan. Part IV: Japan, pp. 345-582

Tema 7. Situación de Asia Oriental a mediados del siglo VII y consolidación del estado central burocrático

Lecturas básicas:
-Asakawa, Kan’ichi. The Early Institutional Life of Japan. A Study in the Reform of 645 A.D., Nueva York, Paragon, 1963. Capt IV, pp. 252-333.
Lecturas complementarias:
-Ooms, H. Imperial politics and symbolic in Ancient Japan. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2009

Tema 8. Estado Ritsuryō y el antiguo régimen del Tennō

Lecturas básicas:
-Nakamura, Hajime A History of the Development, Cap. 2, pp. 39-58
Lecturas complementarias:
-Philippi, Donald L., Trad. Norito. Ancient Japanese Ritual Prayers

Tema 9. Cultura Asuka y Heijō

Lecturas básicas:
-Kojiki, Phillip, Donald L., trad. Tokyo, Tokyo UP, 1969. o The Kojiki Records of Ancient Matters, Basil —Hall Chamberlain, trad. (Introducción y primer capítulo).
Lecturas complementarias:
-Ebersole, Gary L. Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan.
-Marinus Willem Visser Ancient Buddhism in Japan. Sutras and Ceremonies in use in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries AD and…

Tema 10. Traslado de la capital a Heian y ajuste del sistema político

Lecturas básicas:
-Yamamura, Kozo, “The decline of the ritsuryo system: Hypothesis on economic and institutional change”, Journal of Asian Studies, 1:1 (1974), pp. 3-38
Lecturas complementarias:
-Farris, William Wayne, Population, disease and mortality in early Japan, 645-900, Cambridge, The Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1985.

Tema 11. Cultura nativista, kokufū, de Heian

Lecturas básicas:
-De Bary et al., Sources of Japanese Tradition (2001), Vol.1, pp.123-196.
-La Madre de Michitsuna. “Kagerō nikki. El diario de la vida efímera”, EO 4:3, pp.308-332.
Lecturas complementarias:
-McCullough, Helen C. Tales of Ise. Lyrical Episodes from Tenth-Century Japan.
“The Tosa Diary” en Miner, Earl Japanese Poetic Diaries.pp.20-29 y 57-92.

Tema 12. Poderío de los Fujiwara bajo los tennō infantes

Lecturas básicas:
-Cambridge History of Japan, Vol.II, Caps.3, pp.183-235
Lecturas complementarias:
-McCullough, Helen Craig, Ōkagami, the great mirror: Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027), and his times, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1991.

Tema 13. Literatura femenina de la época Heian

Lecturas básicas:
-Sei Shonagon. “Libro de almohada” en Estudios Orientales (EO) 4:2, pp. 49-69.
-De Bary et al., Sources of Japanese Tradition (2001), Vol.1,pp.197-204
Lecturas complementarias :
-Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji.
-Field, Norma. The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji, Princeton UP, 1987
“The Diary of Izumishikibu” Miner, Earl, Japanese Poetic Diaries, pp.30-38, 93-154

Tema 14. Economía bajo el sistema shōen-kokugaryō

Lecturas básicas:
-“Feudalism”,Encyclopedeia of Social Sciences, 1938.
-Lu, David. Sources of Japanese history, Vol.1 pp.77-95.
Lecturas complementarias:
-Asakawa, Kan´ichi. “The early shō and the early manor: a comparative study”, en Land and Society in Medieval Japan, Tokio, The Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences, 1965, pp. 231-261.
-Keissterd, Thomas. “The theatre of protest: petitions, oaths and rebellions in the shoen”, JJS, 16:2 (1990), pp. 357-388.

Tema 15. Insei, “Maximato” del tenno en retiro y ascenso de los guerreros buke

Lecturas básicas:
-Friday, Karl. “Teeth and claws: Provincial warriors and the Heian court”, en Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 43, No. 2, 1988, pp. 153-185
Lecturas complementarias:
-The Tale of Heike.
-The Tale of Hogen.

Tema 16. Cultura en transición bajo el “Maximato” del tennō en retiro

Lecturas básicas:
-De Bary et al., Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol.1, Cap.10.pp.205-225, 238-249.
Lecturas complementarias:
-Moriguchi, Yoshihiko. The Dance of the dust on the Rafters. Selections from the Ryojinhisho.
-Goodwin, Janet R. Selling songs and smiles. The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan.