literary readings Flashcards
(11 cards)
- money loving, loan sharking old man
- critique on greed and wealth and one’s social responsibility
- merchant values
- exploiting the actor
characters of old men in floating world (edo period)
story 1: kusunoki’s loyalty and sacrifice to the kenmu restoration
- warring states
- muromachi period (imperial states)
- not given higher position led to failure of kenmu imperial restoration
story 2: two great figures of warring states
- kenshin attacked shingen
- shingen sved by nobushige
poems: sea, kenshin attack on shingen, escorting mother home (peace in time of war)
unofficial history of japan (edo period but critique on muromachi period)
- civil rights movement
-critique on laws of suffrage - women’s rights
- marriage, education, property, male superiority, western examples
- activism
- disproves all arguments
to my fellow sisters (meiji period)
nostalgia for past and critique of modernization
- sino-japanese war
- rice riots (end of meji due to kansei reforms)
fireworks (meiji)
- various perspectives
- okee (timid) and oyoshi (resilient)
- comparison of views during labor unrests and unions
the fifteenth of march 1928 (taisho/showa period leading up to war led to censorship)
-housewife perspective
- day japan declared war
- ironic bc husband is author
december 8 1941 (showa)
- man on train trying to see if his family is still alive)
- shangai to japan
- family luckily alive hiroshima
- indifferent to hopeful
- sees cherry blossoms with mom
- life goes on
from age to age (showa)
-poem about present of son with no thumb (differentiates ape from man)
-critique on ethical and moral use of atomic/nuclear bombs
christmas (showa)
- americanized japanese thoughts and experiences
- why was it necessary
- longing for american ideals but not justified attack on hiroshima
why security treaty? (showa)
- construction site and discovery of mass grave from wwii
- bodies piled, burned with gasoline, ash buried
bones
-returning to fukushima 16 years after wedding anniversary due to earthquake and natural disaster
- not compensated for the damage
- mushroom farm
- radioactive effects
sixteen years later, in the same place
