Feudal Japan: Peasants, Monks and Samurai

Undergraduate

This course details the history of Japan from the rise of the Yamato State through to the Sengoku Period of the sixteenth century. Topics to be covered: Shinto and the national mythology; development of Japanese Buddhism; aristocratic ages of Heian and Nara; Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates; and the emergence of a ‘feudal’ state in medieval Japan. Prerequisite(s): 30h of university courses or permission of the instructor.