No supplemental readings for today's class.

Click here to see the pre-assignment readings and question for your written response.

Click here to preview or review Helen's PowerPoint Presentation on Japanese Art from contemporary back to the Tokugawa Period.

You can also print out Helen's presentation using this PDF Japanese Art(PDF, 1,027kb)

Steve's Introduction to Japanese:

• The class presentation on Introduction to Japanese
• The same presentation as a PDF: Language-Intro.PDF (approx 1.5mb)
• The vocabulary and phrases handout as a PDF: language-intro-handout.pdf
• The Japanese syllabary (hiragana and katakana) reference sheet as a PDF: syllabaries.pdf

Click here to preview or review Jennifer's PowerPoint Presentation on Central Feudalism and Isolationism.

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