AQH00301 Japanese Arts and Aesthetics

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2022Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences

Lecture Code AQH00301 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name Japanese Arts and Aesthetics (日本の美学と芸術)

Subject Name
（Katakana）ニホンノビガクトゲイジュツ

Subject Name in
English Japanese Arts and Aesthetics

Instructor GRAJDIAN MARIA MIHAELA

Instructor
(Katakana) グラジディアン　マリア　ミハエラ

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  First Semester,  1Term

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (1T) Mon9-10：IAS K103

Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details) 　

・Lecture, discussion, oral presentations, phenomenological inquiry
・Hybrid style

Credits 1.0 Class Hours/Week 　 Language of Instruction E : English

Course Level 3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 23 : Arts and Humanities

Course Area（Discipline） 11 : Cultural Anthropology

Eligible Students

Keywords Japanese aesthetics, Japanese premodernity, traditional Japan, invented traditions, Japanese exceptionalism

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
Criterion referenced
Evaluation Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework.
・The knowledge and understanding  to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines.

Integrated Global Studies
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines.
・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the
mutual relations and their importance among individual
academic disciplines.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline The goal of this class is to familiarize students with selected aspects of classical Japan culture and the way these emerge in late-modern Japan. "Japanese Aesthetics and Culture - A Reader" (1995) is employed as basic resource, while the movie "The Last Samurai" (2003) provides deep insights into the mechanisms of modernity.

Class Schedule Lesson 1
Introduction: main concepts and ideas (dentô/denshô, mono no aware, giri/ninjô, wakon yôsai, ai)

Lesson 2
Heian Japan I: gagaku and bugaku (court music and dance, since Nara period)

Lesson 3
Heian Japan II: shômyô (Buddhist chant, since Asuka period)

Lesson 4
Tokugawa/Edo Japan I: kabuki and bunraku (stage arts in Edo period)

Lesson 5
Tokugawa/Edo Japan II: ukiyo-e (woodblock prints in Edo period)

Lesson 6
Tokugawa/Edo Japan III: haiku, kanbun literature, encyclopaedias (printed media)

Lesson 7
Meiji Japan: westernization and the creation of the Japanese nation-state
The Last Samurai (2003) 1/2

Lesson 8
Conclusion: syncretism, nostalgia, nationalism
The Last Samurai (2003) 2/2

one essay on "The Last Samurai" = 40%
one essay on a topic of your own = 40%
oral presentation = 20% (depending on the number of participants)

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Kosaku, Yoshino (1992): Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan, Nancy G. Hume (1995, editor): Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, Havens, Thomas (1970): Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. 　

(More Details) PowerPoint presentation, DVD

Learning techniques to be incorporated 　

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review 第1回
Rimer, J. Thomas (1995): Japanese Literature: Four Polarities (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 1-26)
Keene, Donald (1995): Japanese Aesthetics (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 27-42)

第2回
Keene, Donald (1995): Feminine Sensibility in the Heian Era (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 109-124)

第3回
Parkes, Graham (1995): Ways of Japanese Thinking (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 77-108)

第4回
Ueda, Makoto (1995): Zeami and the Art of the No Drama: Imitation, Yugen , and Sublimity (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 177-192)
Shively, Donald H. (1995): The Social Environment of Tokugawa Kabuki (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 193-244)

第5回
De Bary, Wm. Theodore (1995): The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics, I, II, III (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 43-76)
Haga, Koshiro (1995): The Wabi Aesthetic through the Ages (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 245-278)

第6回
Yasuda, Kenneth (1995): "Approach to Haiku" and "Basic Principles" (Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 125-150)
Ueda, Makoto (1995): “Basho on the Art of the Haiku: Impersonality in Poetry” (in: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 151-176)

第7回
Havens, Thomas (1970): Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought
Ames, Roger T.: Bushido: Mode or Ethic? (in: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 279-294)

第8回
Kosaku, Yoshino (1992): Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan
Varley H. Paul (1995): Culture in the Present Age (in: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 295-340)

Requirements interest in cross-media phenomena, English skills, critical thinking, courage & integrity

Grading Method one essay on "The Last Samurai" = 40%
one essay on a topic of your own = 40%
oral presentation = 20% (depending on the number of participants)

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2022Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	AQH00301	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	Japanese Arts and Aesthetics (日本の美学と芸術)
Subject Name （Katakana）	ニホンノビガクトゲイジュツ
Subject Name in English	Japanese Arts and Aesthetics
Instructor	GRAJDIAN MARIA MIHAELA
Instructor (Katakana)	グラジディアン　マリア　ミハエラ
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	2nd-Year, First Semester, 1Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(1T) Mon9-10：IAS K103
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)
・Lecture, discussion, oral presentations, phenomenological inquiry ・Hybrid style
Credits	1.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	E : English
Course Level	3 : Undergraduate High-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area（Discipline）	11 : Cultural Anthropology
Eligible Students
Keywords	Japanese aesthetics, Japanese premodernity, traditional Japan, invented traditions, Japanese exceptionalism
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program
Criterion referenced Evaluation	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding）・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework. ・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic diciplines. Integrated Global Studies （Knowledge and Understanding）・The knowledge and understanding of the important characteristics and basic theoretical framework of individual academic disciplines. ・The knowledge and understanding to fully recognize the mutual relations and their importance among individual academic disciplines.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	The goal of this class is to familiarize students with selected aspects of classical Japan culture and the way these emerge in late-modern Japan. "Japanese Aesthetics and Culture - A Reader" (1995) is employed as basic resource, while the movie "The Last Samurai" (2003) provides deep insights into the mechanisms of modernity.
Class Schedule	Lesson 1 Introduction: main concepts and ideas (dentô/denshô, mono no aware, giri/ninjô, wakon yôsai, ai) Lesson 2 Heian Japan I: gagaku and bugaku (court music and dance, since Nara period) Lesson 3 Heian Japan II: shômyô (Buddhist chant, since Asuka period) Lesson 4 Tokugawa/Edo Japan I: kabuki and bunraku (stage arts in Edo period) Lesson 5 Tokugawa/Edo Japan II: ukiyo-e (woodblock prints in Edo period) Lesson 6 Tokugawa/Edo Japan III: haiku, kanbun literature, encyclopaedias (printed media) Lesson 7 Meiji Japan: westernization and the creation of the Japanese nation-state The Last Samurai (2003) 1/2 Lesson 8 Conclusion: syncretism, nostalgia, nationalism The Last Samurai (2003) 2/2 one essay on "The Last Samurai" = 40% one essay on a topic of your own = 40% oral presentation = 20% (depending on the number of participants)
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Kosaku, Yoshino (1992): Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan, Nancy G. Hume (1995, editor): Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, Havens, Thomas (1970): Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
(More Details)	PowerPoint presentation, DVD
Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	第1回 Rimer, J. Thomas (1995): Japanese Literature: Four Polarities (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 1-26) Keene, Donald (1995): Japanese Aesthetics (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 27-42) 第2回 Keene, Donald (1995): Feminine Sensibility in the Heian Era (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 109-124) 第3回 Parkes, Graham (1995): Ways of Japanese Thinking (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 77-108) 第4回 Ueda, Makoto (1995): Zeami and the Art of the No Drama: Imitation, Yugen , and Sublimity (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 177-192) Shively, Donald H. (1995): The Social Environment of Tokugawa Kabuki (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 193-244) 第5回 De Bary, Wm. Theodore (1995): The Vocabulary of Japanese Aesthetics, I, II, III (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 43-76) Haga, Koshiro (1995): The Wabi Aesthetic through the Ages (in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 245-278) 第6回 Yasuda, Kenneth (1995): "Approach to Haiku" and "Basic Principles" (Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 125-150) Ueda, Makoto (1995): “Basho on the Art of the Haiku: Impersonality in Poetry” (in: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 151-176) 第7回 Havens, Thomas (1970): Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought Ames, Roger T.: Bushido: Mode or Ethic? (in: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 279-294) 第8回 Kosaku, Yoshino (1992): Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan Varley H. Paul (1995): Culture in the Present Age (in: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture – A Reader, edited by Nancy G. Hume, 295-340)
Requirements	interest in cross-media phenomena, English skills, critical thinking, courage & integrity
Grading Method	one essay on "The Last Samurai" = 40% one essay on a topic of your own = 40% oral presentation = 20% (depending on the number of participants)
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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