Chikamatsu’s The Love Suicides at Amijima
- Prose translation by Miyamori; http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/amijima_miyamori.pdf (http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/)
- Alternately, order Keene’s translation: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Major-Plays-Chikamatsu/dp/0231111010
- Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book; (https://www.ancient.eu/The_Pillow_Book/ ) AND (https://kyotojournal.org/in-translation/on-translating-a-classic/ ***)
- Meiko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs, selection, and Motoko Rich’s “A Novelist Breaks the Code of Being a Woman in Japan.”
Optional: Travel narratives (m), Cook? (https://www.worldhistorycommons.org/analyzing-travel-narratives ?)