- JPNS 2811 Heroes and the Supernatural: Word and Image in Old Japan
- Asian Studies Major/Minor Course
- ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CIVILIZATIONS
Course Credits: 3
Asian Studies Major/Minor Course
Semester(s) Offered
- Fall 2019
- Spring 2017
Catalog Description
Examines the fusion of literary and visual arts in twelfth- to nineteenth-century Japan, focusing on illustrated handscrolls and narrative paintings. Students will explore tales of monsters, samurai, fantastic journeys to other worlds, anthropomorphic animals, and the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precursors of contemporary Japanese comics. This course seeks to analyze visual-literary texts in their historical contexts as both literature and art. Taught in English.
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