| 1.Introduction: A detailed syllabus will be distributed during the first meeting. |
| 2.Early Narratives: Taketori monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) and Nihon ryoiki (Record of Miraculous Events in Japan) |
| 3.Early Poetry I: Manyoshu (Collection of Myriad Leaves) |
| 4.Early Poetry and the Poem-tale: Kokin wakashu (Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern) and Ise monogatari (Tales of Ise) |
| 5.Court Tales: Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji) |
| 6.Genji monogatari, cont. |
| 7.Genji monogatari, cont. |
| 8.Genji monogatari, cont. |
| 9.Genji monogatari, cont. |
| 10.Genji monogatari, cont. |
| 11.Genji monogatari, cont. |
| 12.Genji monogatari, cont. |
| 13.Genji monogatari, cont. |
| 14.Makura no Soshi (The Pillo Book) |
| 15.Medieval Tales and Essays: Heike monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) and Hojoki (An Account of my Hut) |
| 16.Heike monogatari and Hojoki, cont. |
| 17.Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) |
| 18.Early Medieval Poetry and Performance: Shinkokin wakashu (New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern) and assorted Noh plays |
| 19.Linked Verse: The poetry of Shinkei |
| 20.Haikai Poetry and Prose: Selected Hokku and Oku no hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Interior) |
| 21.Urban Tales: Sonezaki Shinju (Love Suicide at Sonezaki) and Koshoku gonin onna (Five Women who Loved Love) |
| 22.Urban Theater and the 47 Ronin: Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers) |
| 23.Chushingura, cont. |
| 24.Chushingura, cont. |
| 25.From Pre-modern to Modern: Ukiyoburo (Floating World Bathhouse) and Nanso satomi hakkenden (The Eight Dog Chronicles) |