Kenneth L. Richard – PRACTICUM I
SUGGESTED TOPIC LIST FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS
BORDER CROSSING IN GENERAL THEORY
The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel Huntington-IDEA OF JAPANESE CIVILIZATION
Fukuzawa Yukichi – IDEA OF MODERN EDUCATION AND VALUES
Mori Arinori – IDEAS OF MODERN EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE
Arai Hakuseki – IDEAS OF HOW JAPAN WOULD DEAL WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD
Tsuda Sokichi – IDEAS OF HOW JAPAN WAS TO INTERPRET ITS HISTORY
Daisetz Suzuki – IDEAS OF HOW JAPAN WOULD MAKE ITS RELIGIONS KNOWN
BORDER CROSSING IN LITERATURE
@@Murasaki Shikibu – HOW TO WRITE THE TERRORISTIC NOVEL
Mishima Yukio – HOW TO MODERNIZE CLASSIC THEMES IN LITERATURE
Miwa Akihiro – HOW TO BRIDGE THE GENDER GAP
Shimada Masahiko – HOW TO WRITE A POSITIVE UTOPIA
Saigyo Hoshi – HOW TO BALANCE A WORLDLY VIEW WITH A RECLUSIVE VIEW
Yoshida Kenko – ON THE SPOT OBSERVATION OF THE NATURE OF THINGS
Transvestite writer who won the Akutagawa Prize (in Shincho magazine) IN 2000 – NEW
TRENDS IN JAPANESE FICTION
BORDER CROSSING IN ART
Honnami Koetsu
Michelangelo
Uemura Shoen
Uemura Shoko
Ogura Yuki
Yasuda Yukihiko
Artemisia Gentileschi
Sister Wendy Beckett
Paul Jacoulet
Lillian May Miller
Elizabeth Keith
Yoko Tadanori
Fra Angelico
Bernini
Cellini (Benvenuto)
Palladio
Caravaggio
Mary Cassatt
Vasily Kandinsky
John Singer Sargent
Rodin
MUSIC & ACTING
Yatsuhashi Kengyo
Names ending in c.kootoo (Minezaki Koto) , women performers
Kadotsuke
Shirabyoshi
Bishonen and Kabuki
Okuni Kabuki
Zeami Motokiyo
LANGUAGE
Mori Ogai (Vita Sexualis in katakana?, Chiebukuro (based on German maxims)
Natsume Soseki (kanshi and poetry in English, also eKokorof
Any modern author who uses language in a cross-cultural way, good or bad, such as
Yoshimoto Banana
SOCIETY AND RELIGION
From yujo to comfort women (jugun ianfu)
Takarazuka kagekidan
New-half
Feminism, including lesbianism
Masculine identity, including homosexuality
JAPANOLOGISTS
Serge Elisseef
Basil Hall Chamberlain
Aston
Paul Jacoulet
Edwin O. Reischauer
Edward Seidensticker
Donald Keene
Kenneth L. Richard