Graduate Institute in Eastern Classics
Seminar Reading List - Summer
Week One
The Tale of the Heike, translated by Helen Craig McCullough (Stanford University Press), Chapters 1-8.
The Tale of the Heike, Chapters 9-10.
Week Two
The Tale of the Heike, Chapters 11 - end.
Kukai, The Meanings of Sound, Word, and Reality, from Kukai: Major Works, translated and edited by Yoshito S. Hakeda (Columbia University Press). pp. 234-246. Photocopy available in bookstore.
Week Three
Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney (Penguin Classics), pp. 2-112.
The Pillow Book, pp. 112-189, plus sections 243, 258, 273, S 29.
Week Four
Kamo no Chomei, “Record of the Ten-Foot Square Hut,” in Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life, translated by Burton Watson (Shambhala).
Dogen, “Bendowa,” in The Heart of Dogen’s Shobogenzo, translated by Waddell and Abe (SUNY Press).
Week Five
Dogen, “Busho,” pp. 5-bottom of 84.
“Busho,” pp. 84-98.
Week Six
Dogen, “Genjokoan.”
Dogen, “Uji.”
Week Seven
Kenko, Essays in Idleness, translated by Donald Keene (Columbia University Press), Sections 1-38, 43-49, 52-53, 58-60, 66.
Kenko, Sections 69-75, 81-85, 89, 92, 97-98, 104-122, 127-130, 133, 137, 154, 162, 166, 184, 188, 190, 191, 235-237.
Week Eight
Basho, “Journey of Bleached Bones in a Field,” “Kashimo Journal,” “Knapsack Notebook, “Sarashine Journal” in Basho’s Journey: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho, translated by David Landis Barnhill (SUNY Press).
Basho, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.”