Surveys the major works and authors of medieval Japanese (poetry, prose, and drama) from the Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1185--1600). Taught in English. Recommended prereq., JPNS 1051. For ...

The program boasts four professors with specializations in the literature and performing arts of classical, medieval, early-modern and modern Japan. In recent years our MA students have gone on to PhD ...

Both literature and historical records demonstrate ... these categories do not help people today make sense of early medieval Japan. Starting in the seventh century, as a centralized Japanese ...