Chapter Four: Changing of the Guard


 

This presentation is from our class session on Chapter Four A: Changing of the Guard on the Kamakura and Muromachi Periods.

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 Four A: Changing of the Guard

Vocabulary:
Kamakura Period
Shogun
Bakufu
Daimyo
Samurai
Tale of Heiji
Yamatoe
Song Dynasty Aesthetic
No Drama (aka Noh)

For further research:

"The House of Kanze: A Saga of 14th Century Japan" MSJ Library 823.914 A334 1985
A novel of the founders of No Drama, Kan'ami and Zeami.
By Nobuko Albery
Simon and Schuster, New York 1985
ISBN 0-671-60520-8

"Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185 - 1868" MSJ Library 952.0074 J355 1988
Edited by Yoshiaki Shimizu
National Gallery of Art, Washington 1988
ISBN: 0-8076-1214-6 (hardcover)
Exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo and The Japan Foundation

"Samurai: The Story of Japan's Great Warriors"
By Stephen Turnbull
PRC Publishing, Ltd. U. K. 2004
ISBN: 1-85648-703-2

 

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