07s-04
INSIDE JAPANESE ARTS

Tsuneyuki KAMIKURA, et al. (School of Letters)

Objective
  A variety of arts created and/or performed in Japan from the distant past through the recent past up to the present will be presented. In addition, discussion will be made as to how the foreign influences were, have been, and are being seen. Furthermore, Japanese influences over foreign countries will be dealt with. The art forms discussed will cover paintings, sculpture, literature, theater and music. All the staff members (professors and associate professors) belonging to the departments of art history and the science of arts will take turn for the lectures.

Lecture Outline
  Week 1 Introduction to the Arts in Japan: Far East overlapping West ? (KAMIKURA Tsuneyuki)
  Week 2 The Modern Japanese Arts and the Formalistic Criticism (KANAME Mariko)
  Week 3 Films in Japan today: The Kitano Takeshi case (KAMIKURA Tsuneyuki)
  Week 4 History and Philosophy of Japanese Design (FUJITA Haruhiko)
  Week 5 Modern Japanese Comedies and the Greek Dramas (N.N.)
  Week 6 Contemporary Japanese Theatre in the Post-Cold War Era (NAGATA Yasushi)
  Week 7 An Invitation to Nohgaku (AMANO Fumio)
  Week 8 Musical Works of Joseph Laska(1886-1964) (NEGISHI Kazumi)
  Week 9 Japanese Composers Confront Japanese Tradition (ITO Nobuhiro)
  Week 10 The “Kabuki-mono” and the Kabuki Iconology (OKUDAIRA Shunroku)
  Week 11 Buddhist Statues of the Kofuku-ji Temple (FUJIOKA Yutaka)
  Week 12 Kyoto in the Medieval Paintings (IZUMI Mari)
  Week 13 Japanese Art and Europe (KODERA Tsukasa)
  Week 14 Literary Theories introduced to Japan (KATO Hiroshi)
  Week 15 Supplementary Lecture: A field investigation

Textbooks and reference materials
  None particular; however, some reading materials will be provided in the classroom.

Grading
  Class participation 50%; term paper 50%