The samurai warrior has come to symbolize Japan’s medieval period of social and political unrest ... The lessons draw upon a range of historical source materials—including art, literature, memoir, ...

medieval, early-modern, modern, and contemporary, and have additional competence in other areas. Each semester, we offer two seminars in Japanese literature across different historical periods that ...

This course is designed to introduce the culture and history of Japan, and to examine how one understands ... Exploration of German medieval literature. Topics may include medieval German Arthurian ...

The Japanese provincial city of Ichijōdani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations have since uncovered the most detailed late ...

NAKIJIN, Okinawa Prefecture--Skeletal human remains bearing characteristics associated with medieval people in mainland Japan provide the strongest evidence yet of a migration to the nation’s ...

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber presented a talk Oct. 23 at the 2024 Zombie Apocalypse Medicine ...

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 ...