Enshu I – Guidelines on Choosing a Subject for Study

Make an interactive Bibliography from internet sources, as well

As from books.

Culture and Civilization in General – 文化と文明一般

　　　Theory and Idea of Culture and Civilization- 文明と文化の理念

　　　The Clash of Civilizations Idea文明の衝突論

　　　The Internationalization of Japan日本の国際化

Anthropology and Reciprocal Anthropology 人類学と総合人類学？

　　　The Museum and its History and Function 博物館―その歴史と機能

Literature – Japanese and Western

The Idea of Genre (Literary Type) – 文学とは何か、文学類　（歌、物語、

　　　　劇）、

　　　　Pick One Literary Type, Then pick one work in Japanese, and one work

In another language for which there is a Japanese translation. Any period

Is fine. You may even wish to choose a work in film. This is OK.

Gather information about the author, then discuss ways in which the

Author controls the work, by being in it, outside of it, or imbedded in it.

Gather information about how the story is constructed, how the meat is

Put on the bones, or stays on the bones—the structure.

Compare ideas about authorship and content by comparing two literary

Works from the same genre. For example, a play by

Chikamatsu Monzaemon and a play by William Shakespeare.

Find out, if you can, how the works have been criticized (how have readers

Or critics responded to the works, and have the viewpoints changed).

Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting in Japan and Other Countries

Pick one genre of art from the above, one in Japan and one in another country

Any era is OK.

Gather materials on who designed, built, painted, or sculpted the object.

Gather materials about the era in which the object was made, about the

Society for whom it was made/

Gather materials about the style of the object. How does the object relate

To others which resemble it. Does it refer to the past, the present, or the future, or to all three? What does the object say about the concerns of the

Age when it was made?

Find out how the object is treated by people who have written about it in

Japanese, and in one other language (eg. English). What have been the

Points of criticism?

Music in Japan and the West – 邦楽と西洋音楽

Choose a genre (vocal, instrumental, operatic, orchestral, solo, ensemble)

Choose one work from a similar genre in Japan and in the West.

Compare the elements of sound production. By what, for how long, in

What combinations, to what effect?

Analyze the structure of each piece, ie. How it goes from the beginning

To the end, how it progresses and develops, how it ends.

Language – 言語―日本語と英語を中心に

Choose an artistic work in translation, one in Japanese from English, and one in English from Japanese.

Compare the way in which speech (dialogue) is translated.

What is the market for the works you have chosen? Who is the translator?

Why has the work been translated?

Compare and contrast the content. What about literal versus literary

Translation?

Society/Religion – 社会と宗教、ジェンダーの表現を中心

The history of male and female representation in literature.

The normal versus the abnormal

Sexual roles and their reversal

Pick one representation from Japan and one other from somewhere else

In which gender is represented in particularistic ways, eg. The Takarazuka

And Kabuki Theatres in Japan, and the Drag Queen in the West.

Sample topics: the History of the Courtesan 遊女and 遊男、色好みand

愛in Japan and the West, etc.