This presentation is from our class session on Chaper Three Part A: Capital of Peace and Tranquility about the Heian Period.

Click this link if you want to print out the slides from the presentation. It's a PDF file and formatted with six slides per page. PDF for Chapter Three Part A: Capital of Peace and Tranquility

Vocabulary:

Tale of Genji
Shinden
Emakimono
Yamato-e
Sutras
Haiku
Mandara
Yakushi
Fudoo

For further research:

"The Tale of Genji"
By Lady Murasaki (Translated by Arthur Whaley)
The Modern Library New York, 1960
No ISBN

"As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams"
The Recollections of a Woman of 11th Century Japan
Author Unknown
Translated by Ian Morris
The Dial Press, 1971
Library of Congress Number 79-144386

"Illustrated Japanese Characters"
ByJapan Travel Bureau 1990
ISBN: 4-533-01359-7

"Kanji Pict-O-Graphix" MSJ Library 495.682421 R884 1992
by Michael Rowley
Stone Bridge Press, Berkely California 1992
ISBN: 0-9628137-0-2

"The Kanji ABC"
By Andrew Dykstra
William Kaufmann, Inc. Lost Altos, CA 1977
ISBN: 0-913-232-37-8