Topics in Japanese Cultural History
for HIST 157 at Vanderbilt University
Chapter Two: The Ancient Japanese Islands
Chapter Three: The Heian Period Aristocrats
Chapter Four: Buddhism in Japan
Chapter Five: The Rise of the Warriors and the "Age of Anxiety"
Chapter Six: Early-Modern Japan, The Political Narrative
Chapter Seven: The World of Sex in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
Chapter Eight: Yôkai--Monsters, Giant Catfish, & Symbolic Representation in Popular Culture
Chapter Ten: In Pursuit of Security--War, Peace, Boom, and Bust