Professor Lynne Miyake's lecture

[Ann Huyhn]

According to Professor Miyake’s lecture, Japan’s history is deeply entrenched in gendering the roles of males and females.  Not only were the roles gendered, but that women were the ones who left behind writings that historians can use to help them try to reimagine Heian Japan.  That is unique because often time history is written and told by the males’ point-of-view. Poetry was also heavily used to describe the conditions of Japan.  I would like to look closely at one poem and have my students create a drawing based upon the words that they hear. It would be interesting to see what they will create.