Course schedule / outline

Important dates

First day of class: Session 01 / F, Aug 24
Practice Test 01: Session 09 / F, Sep 14
Midterm 01: Session 19 / M, Oct 8
Practice Test 02: Session 36 / M, Nov 19
Midterm 02: Session 38 / M, Nov 26
Last day of class: Session 40 / F, Nov 30
Final exam: Dec 12 7-9PM*, 2 hours—the regularly scheduled time during exam week. (*We have the room until 10PM if we want it for something). The location will be typed into the schedule below, when known.

*In addition, this class has multiple dues dates for Poem Glosses (PGs) and Poem Reports (PRs). This class does not require a term paper.

Orientation

Session 01—Orientation

Introductory lectures

Session 02—Go to the page to see the topics
Session 03—Go to the page to see the topics
Session 04—Go to the page to see the topics

Haru no uta from the Kokinshū and the Shin-Kokinshū

Session 05—Part 1: Very early spring waka from KKS and SKKS (and Introduction of two important poets: Go-Toba and Shikishi, suffix to adjective stems: −み（−ので）)
- 01 ほのぼのと春こそ空に来にけらし。天の香具山霞たなびく。
- 02 山深み春とも知らぬ松の戸にたえだえかかる雪の玉水。
- 03 雪のうちに春は来にけり。うぐひすのこほれる涙いまやとくらむ。
Session 06—Part 2: Mid-spring waka from KKS and SKKS (and Introduction of the important poets: Fujiwara no Teika and Ki no Tsurayuki)
- 04 大空は梅のにほひに霞みつつ、くもりもはてぬ春の夜の月。
- 05 ひさかたの光のどけき春の日に、しづ心なく花の散るらむ。
- 06 さくら花散りぬる風のなごりには水なき空に波ぞ立ちける。
Session 07—Part 3: Sakura poems of the SKKS (and Introduction of the important poet: Fujiwara no Shunzei, with a limited discussion of yūgen)
- 07 風かよふ寝覚の袖の花の香にかをる枕の春の夜の夢。
- 08 またや見む。交野のみ野の桜狩り、花の雪散る春のあけぼの。
- 09 花は散りその色となくながむれば、むなしき空に春雨ぞ降る。
Session 08—Appreciation (Class meets in the Numata Room, East Asian Library)

First practice test (optional)

Session 09—Practice Test 01 (optional)

Aki no uta from the Kokinshū and the Shin-Kokinshū

Session 10—Part 1: The first autumn poem and some mid-autumn poems from the KKS (Introduction of the important poet: Ono no Komachi)
- 10 秋来ぬと目にはさやかに見えねども、風の音にぞ驚かれぬる。
- 11 木の間よりもり来る月のかげ見れば、心づくしの秋は来にけり。
- 12 白雲に羽うちかはし飛ぶ雁の数さへ見ゆる秋の夜の月。
Session 11—Part 2: Mid-autumn poems from the SKKS (and Notes on 荻、おぎ and 衣打つ、ころもうつ／砧を打つ、きぬたをうつ, some discussion of supplying words to poems, since 14 and 15 require this, 体言止め as creating a sense of emphasis (詠嘆) and suggestiveness (余情))
- 13 ふるさとのもとあらの小荻咲きしより、夜な夜な庭の月ぞうつろふ。
- 14 み吉野の山の秋風さ夜更けて、ふるさと寒く衣打つなり。
- 15 更けにけり。山の端近く月冴えて十市の里に衣打つ声。
Session 12—Part 3: Momiji poems from the KKS and SKKS (and suffix to adjective stems: −み（−ので）, poetic word: 忍ぶ草, further practice in supplying words to poems appropriately )
- 16 風吹けば落つるもみぢ葉水清み、散らぬかげさへ底に見えつつ。
- 17 ふるさとは散るもみぢ葉にうづもれて、軒のしのぶに秋風ぞ吹く。
- 18 桐の葉も踏み分けがたくなりにけり。必ず人を待つとなけれど、
Session 13—Appreciation (Class meets in the Numata Room, East Asian Library)

Koi no uta from the Kokinshū and the Shin-Kokinshū

Session 14—Book I selections (and the five books of love of the KKS)
- 19 春日野の雪間を分けて生ひ出でくる草の、はつかに見えし君はも。
- 20 夕暮れは雲のはたてにものぞ思ふ。天つ空なる人を恋ふとて、
- 21 玉の緒よ。絶えなば絶えね。ながらへば、忍ぶることの弱りもぞする。
Session 15—Book II selections (all by Ono no Komachi and grammar constructs 〜らむ and 〜ばや、、、推量の助動詞 and せば、、、まし and てふ)
- 22 思ひつつ寝ればや人の見えつらむ。夢と知りせばさめざらましを。
- 23 うたたねに恋しき人を見てしより、夢てふものはたのみそめてき。
- 24 いとせめて恋しき時は、むばたまの夜の衣をかへしてぞ着る。
Session 16—Books IV & V selections (and introduction of the important poet: Ise, review of せば、、、まし, ものを, and a 本歌 by Izumi Shikibu and passing reference to Yosano Akiko)
- 25 月夜よし夜よしと人につげやらば、来とふに似たり。待たずしもあらず。
- 26 冬枯れの野辺とわが身を思ひせば、燃えても春を待たましものを。
- 27 かきやりし、その黒髪の筋ごとにうち伏すほどは面影ぞ立つ。

Koi no uta in prose works

Session 17—Love poems embedded in prose: examples from the 歌物語 genre 『伊勢物語』(Ise monogatari) 6 & 7 (and brief comments on the close relationship of prose and poem in the genre うたーものがたり（歌物語）)
- 28A 白玉か何ぞと人の問ひし時つゆと答へて消えなましものを
- 28B いとどしく過ぎゆく方の恋しきにうらやましくもかへる浪かな
- In-class: 月やあらぬ春やむかしの春ならぬわが身ひとつはもとの身にして
Session 18—Love poems embedded in prose: examples from the 歌物語 genre 『伊勢物語』(Ise monogatari) 10 and some practice reading rhetorical exchanges in love poems from the same text
- 29A みよし野のたのむの雁もひたぶるに君が方にぞよると鳴くなる
- 29B わが方によると鳴くなるみよし野のたのむの雁をいつか忘れむ
Session 19—Midterm 01
Session 20—Appreciation (all koi no uta presented)

Haiku of Matsuo Bashō

Session 21—Brief introductory lecture on haiku, brief introductory lecture on Bashō, 切れ字, and poems from Bashō's early years
- Brief lecture on haiku
- 31 夜ひそかに虫は月下の栗を穿つ
- 32 かれ枝に鳥のとまりけり秋の暮れ
- 33 櫓の声波をうつて腸氷る夜やなみだ
- 34 あさがほにわれは飯くふをとこかな
Session 22—poems from Bashō's travel years (mid-life)
- 35 あけぼのやしら魚しろきこと一寸
- 36 古池や蛙飛びこむ水のおと
- 37 蛸壺やはかなき夢を夏の月
- 38 初しぐれ猿も小蓑をほしげなり
Session 23—poems from Bashō's last year, Bashō's last poem, sabi
- 39 菊の香や奈良には古き仏たち
- 40 この秋は何で年よる雲に鳥
- 41 秋深き隣は何をする人ぞ
- 42 旅に病んで夢は枯野をかけ巡る
Session 24—Appreciation (reconsideration of the Bashō haiku covered, principles of haiku, and the aesthetic concept sabi and karumi, extended discussion of a famous passage on the art of haikai from Oi no kobumi [笈の小文])

Haiku from Bashō's Oku no hosomichi

Session 25—Haiku from Bashō's Oku no hosomichi 序章 and how Bashō builds a section of Oku no hosomichi around a concept
- 43 草の戸も住替る代ぞ雛の家
Session 26—Haiku from Bashō's Oku no hosomichi 平泉 and "nexus" strategies in the work
- 44 夏草や兵共が夢の跡
Session 27—Haiku from Bashō's Oku no hosomichi　立石寺
- 45 閑さや岩にしみ入蝉の声
Session 28—Haiku from Bashō's Oku no hosomichi　越後路
- 46 荒海や佐渡によこたふ天河
Session 29—Appreciation

Haiku of Yosa Buson

Session 30—Brief introductory comments on Buson, Spring haiku by Yosa Buson
- 47 春雨や小磯の小貝ぬるるほど
- 48 春雨やものがたりゆく蓑と傘
- 49 陽炎や名もしらぬ虫の白き飛
- 50 菜の花や月は東に日は西に
Session 31—Summer haiku by Yosa Buson
- 51 さみだれや大河を前に家二軒
- 52 夏河を越すうれしさよ手に草履
- 53 夕風や水青鷺の脛をうつ
- 54 不二ひとつうづみ残してわかばかな
Session 32—Autumn and winter haiku by Yosa Buson
- 55 牡丹散りて打ちかさなりぬ二三片
- 56 鳥羽殿へ五六騎いそぐ野分かな
- 57 柳ちり清水かれ石ところどころ
- 58 朝がほや一輪深き淵のいろ
Session 33—Appreciation

Haiku of Kobayashi Issa

Session 34—Brief introductory comments on Issa, Haiku by Issa from the latter part of his life
- 59 雪とけて村一ぱいの子どもかな
- 60 夕月や流れ残りのきりぎりす
- 61 これがまあつひの栖か雪五尺
- 62 いうぜんとして山を見る蛙かな
- 63 露の世は露の世ながらさりながら

Haiku appreciation

Session 35—Appreciation (revisits and comparisons of Bashō, Buson, Issa haiku)

Second practice test (optional)

Session 36—Practice Test 02 (optional)

Optional open topic day ahead of Thanksgiving break

Session 37—Open topics, party if someone organizes food and drink, NHK Haiku segment

Last week sessions

Session 38—Midterm 02
Session 39—Review of course material Day One (each student, 4-minute presentations)
- 1: Orientation lecture one (Student A)
- 1: Orientation lecture one (Student B)
- 2: Orientation lecture two (Student A)
- 2: Orientation lecture two (Student B)
- 3: Orientation lecture three (Student A)
- 3: Orientation lecture three (Student B)
- 4: KKS, SKKS Haru
Session 40—Last day, review of course material Day Two
- 5: KKS, SKKS Aki
- 6: Koi
- 7: Koi in uta-monogatari
- 8: Basho poems
- 9: Basho Oku no hosomichi
- 10: Buson
- 11: Issa

RRR week student presentations

I'm leaving these on the schedule for now, but these sessions are probably cancelled.

RRR week, Monday—see list for when you present, full session attendance required for all students presenting, attendance for others is optional
RRR week, Wednesday—see list for when you present, full session attendance required for all students presenting, attendance for others is optional
RRR week, Friday—see list for when you present, full session attendance required for all students presenting, attendance for others is optional

Final exam

Dec 12 7-9PM*, 2 hours—the regularly scheduled time during exam week. (*We have the room until 10PM if we want it for something) The location is our room, 182 Dwinelle.