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Lecturer(s)
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Ulman Vít, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Pazderka Radek, Mgr.
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Course content
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Topics: Japanese prehistory and protohistory the first cultures on the Japanese islands, ethnic group and state forming arrival of Buddhism, continental influences the high period of emperors´reign, Nara period land owning, state land quota, agriculture regents and ex-emperors (insei), court culture military nobility period of inland wars (15th and 16th century) unification of the country, late feudal society of the Tokugawa period South-West domains, contacts with Europe
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
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Learning outcomes
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This course provides the students with an overview of Japanese history until Meiji Restauration. The course presents the development of home affairs in Japan, as well as the relations to the Asian continent, and it introduces the East-Asian periodosation and kanji transcription of basic terminology and names to the students.
Upon successful completion of the course students will have a good knowledge of the historical development in Japan until Meiji revolution.
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Prerequisites
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The course is designed for students with an interest in old Japanese history, who do not study Japanese as their major.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
written test (knowledge of basic terminology and names)
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Recommended literature
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(1988). Cambridge History of Japan. Vol.1-6. Cambridge.
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(1979). Kokushi daijiten (Velký slovník národních dějin). Vol.1-15. Tokyo.
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Lu, J. (1997). Japan. A Documentary History. New York.
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Mass, J.; Hauser, W. (1985). Bakufu in Japanese History. Stanford.
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Myers, R.; Peattie, M. (1984). Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton.
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Reischauer, E.O.;Craig, A.M. (2000). Dějiny Japonska. Praha.
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Vasiljevová, Z. (1986). Dějiny Japonska. Praha.
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