Graduate Institute in Eastern Classics
Seminar Reading List - Summer 2010
Monday and Thursday, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
First assignment: Tale of Heike chapters 1 through 8
Week One
1. The Tale of the Heike (Helen Craig McCullough, translator; Stanford University Press): chapters 1 through 8
2. The Tale of the Heike: chapters 9 through 10
Week Two
1. The Tale of the Heike: chapters 11 through “The Initiate’s Chapter [final chapter]”
2. Kukai, “The Meanings of Sound, Word and Reality” (photocopy from Kukai: Major Works, tr. and ed. Yoshito S. Hakeda, Columbia UP, pp.234-46)
Week Three
1. Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book (tr. Meredith McKinney, Penguin Classics), ppp.2-112
2. Pillow Book, pp. 112-89, plus sections 243, 258, 273, S 29
Week Four
1. Kamo No Chomei, “Record of the Ten-Foot-Square Hut” (from Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life, tr. Burton Watson)
2. Dogen, “Bendowa” (all Dogen readings are in The Heart of Dogen’s Shobogenzo, Waddell & Abe, translators, SUNY Press)
Week Five
1. Dogen, “Bussho” (pp. 59- bottom of 84)
2. “Bussho” (p.84-98)
Week Six
1. Dogen, “Genjokoan”
2. Dogen, “Uji”
Week Seven
1. Kenko, Essays in Idleness (Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, Donald Keene, translator; Columbia University Press): sections 1 through 38, 43 through 49, 52, 53, 58 through 60, 66
2. Kenko, Essays in Idleness: 69 through 75, 81 through 85, 89, 92, 97, 98, 104 through 122, 127 through 130, 133, 137, 154, 162, 166, 184, 188, 190, 191, 235 through 237
Week Eight
1. Basho, “Journey of Bleached Bones in a Field,” “Kashimo Journal,” “Knapsack Notebook,” and “Sarashino Journal” (from Basho’s Journey: The Literary Prose Of Matsuo Basho, tr. David Landis.Barnhill, SUNY Press)
2. Basho, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”