Reinier Hesselink's Treasure House of Japanese History



Yoshiwara (view larger)

[public lecture] "A Spectre is Haunting Japan: The Tokyo Subway Poisonings and the Japanese Educational System." Department of History and Phi Alpha Theta at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls 13 November 1996.

In my opinion, the crimes committed by the Aum sect are not isolated instances of deviant behavior in modern Japan, but are part of a larger pattern of competition in education fostered by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Clicking the link will take you to the password-protected area. Request your password now.

[translation] "Shume no Hogan Morihisa: Stablemaster Morihisa" A Jidaigeki Kabuki play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724).

A scholarly translation of the only Kabuki play to feature Kumano Bikuni, the nun-prostitutes of the Edo period. Clicking the link will take you to the password-protected area. Request your password now.

[public lecture] "Floating Vestiges of the Japanese Middle Ages: Wandering Nuns in the Edo Period." Department of History, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, 1 December 1994.

A preliminary report on the Kumano bikuni in the Edo period which I composed when I was invited by UNI to give a job talk. I must have done something right, for I got the job! Clicking the link will take you to the password-protected area. Request your password now.

[presentation] "Motifs in Medieval Japanese Literature: The Dojoji Tale and Ancient Bronze Metallurgical Traditions." Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (Chicago, 1990)

This essay I wrote originally for a Seminar in Medieval Japanese Literature at the University of Hawaii conducted by Prof. Arthur Thornhill III. It won the prize for the best graduate essay of 1989 in the department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii. It also provided Prof. Thornhill with the original stimulus to organize the panel for the AAS. Clicking the link will take you to the password-protected area. Request your password now.