Paper on Japanese History

shibani · (#1 (**permalink**))

I have to write a paper for my japanese history class( not long about 5 pages). I can choose any subject which has to do with japanese history ( from mythology to World War 2) but here's the catch, it has to be original. And every idea I've had so far has already been used last year. Does anybody know any subjects?

( The Kensei seems like an interesting subject but I doubt that if I will be able to find a lot about them)

MMM · (#2 (**permalink**))

I bet no one has written about Onmyoudou or Shingon Buddhism.

shibani · (#3 (**permalink**))

Sorry but they have!

MMM · (#4 (**permalink**))

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Originally Posted by shibani

Sorry but they have!

Instead of making us guess, why don't you post the list of topics that are not allowed, and then we can be of more help.

shibani · (#5 (**permalink**))

I would but there's over 600 so I can't just post them

MMM · (#6 (**permalink**))

How are you looking at the list?

MMM · (#7 (**permalink**))

How about Queen Himiko and Yamataikoku?

shibani · (#8 (**permalink**))

I like this subject but I will have to ask if it's allowed since it includes a lot of references to china and some to korea. And I'm using the schoolsite to browse through the papers.

Edit: damn it has already been used.

MMM · (#9 (**permalink**))

In that case things likt tsukimi and the moon in Japanese culture are surely gone.

Good luck...

Columbine · (#10 (**permalink**))

Could you look at a broader spectrum maybe? I had to do something similar (find a unique title) for a classic civ paper. Most of them seemed like they were focussing really tightly on one thing. Parthenon friezes, Hellenistic art, pots by Exekias, yadda yadda. I ended up doing "development of the horse in greek art 40BC to the Hellenistic period," which was accepted as even though it was pretty broad across the history I focused on one thing, i.e. horses.

A development question might help you find a topic that is similar to something already done, but rather than simply saying what happened when (as they might have), you'd need to do some actual analysis of how it changed and what importance those changes had.

Not sure if that helps, but it something to think about?