ARTH 225: Pleasure and Design in Confinement: Japanese Prints In and After Edo

During the eighteenth century, Edo (today's Tokyo) became the world's largest city, quickly surpassing London and Paris. Its rapidly expanding population and flourishing economy encouraged the development of a thriving popular culture.

The Tales of the Heike focuses on the lives of both the samurai warriors who fought for two powerful twelfth-century Japanese clans-the Heike (Taira) and the Genji (Minamoto)-and the women with whom they were intimately connected.

The Tale of Genji and The Tale of the Heike are the two major works of classical Japanese prose.

The tale of the Hōgen years -- The tale of the Heiji years -- A record of the Jōkyū years