The peasant soul of Japan

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書誌事項

The peasant soul of Japan

Shoichi Watanabe ; foreword by Louis Allen

Macmillan, 1989

  • : pbk

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日本そして日本人

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注記

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780333443521

内容説明

This is a book concerning the Japanese identity, a subject which has become the source of speculative historical and psychological debate since 1945. It seems to the author that the Pacific War revealed the characteristic features of two nations and he suggests that the result is a dichotomy between the "equestrian" and the "peasant" society. Ability, effectiveness, competition, leadership are what he identifies as the dominating values in an "equestrian" society , in contrast to the good-natured and competitive-free community spirit of the "peasant" society. To support his argument Professor Watanabe draws on Japanese and European classical literature, on the history of warfare and on studies of law and business management. The author's publications include "The Spirit of the Japanese Language", "An Approach to the Intellectual Life" and "Introduction to English Etymology"

目次

  • Part 1 Prologue: the Tokyo Summit of 1979
  • the peasant spirit in war - the agrarian and equestrian mentality
  • the Japanese feeling of security - ancestral roots, the soil
  • the Japanese feeling of security - leadership and security
  • the spirit of harmony as the cause of conflict
  • societies in which orders are effective, societies in which they are not. Part 2 Dynamics of envy: the mechanism of the envy society
  • law and order in an agrarian society
  • the politics of envy. Part 3 The Japanese - an agrarian people seen from the point of view of history: the Emperor as the Chief High Priest of agrarian ceremonies
  • the civil war period and the foresight of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns
  • the meaning of the Meiji Restoration and the history of the Showa Period. Part 4 The age of the Japanese idea: the spirit of commerce and its effect on the Japanese.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780333443538

内容説明

A book concerning the Japanese identity in which the author theorizes that the national mentality is a dichotomy between the "equestrian" and the "peasant". He draws on Japanese and European classical literature, on the history of warfare and on studies of law and business management.

目次

  • Part 1 Prologue: the Tokyo Summit of 1979
  • the peasant spirit in war - the agrarian and equestrian mentality
  • the Japanese feeling of security - ancestral roots, the soil
  • the Japanese feeling of security - leadership and security
  • the spirit of harmony as the cause of conflict
  • societies in which orders are effective, societies in which they are not. Part 2 Dynamics of envy: the mechanism of the envy society
  • law and order in an agrarian society
  • the politics of envy. Part 3 The Japanese - an agrarian people seen from the point of view of history: the Emperor as the Chief High Priest of agrarian ceremonies
  • the civil war period and the foresight of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns
  • the meaning of the Meiji Restoration and the history of the Showa Period. Part 4 The age of the Japanese idea: the spirit of commerce and its effect on the Japanese.

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