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Noguchi continued to publish extensively in English after his return to Japan, becoming a leading interpreter of Japanese culture to Westerners, and of Western culture to the Japanese. His 1909 poem collection, The Pilgrimage , was widely admired, as was a 1913 collection of essays, Through the Torii .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 December 2024. Moral code of the samurai This article is about the Japanese concept of chivalry. For other uses, see Bushido (disambiguation). A samurai in his armor in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato Bushidō (武士道, "the way of the warrior") is a moral code concerning samurai ...
Kokoro (こゝろ, or in modern kana usage こころ) is a 1914 Japanese novel by Natsume Sōseki, and the final part of a trilogy starting with To the Spring Equinox and Beyond and followed by The Wayfarer (both 1912). [1]
Hara hachi bun me (腹八分目) (also spelled hara hachi bu, and sometimes misspelled hari hachi bu) is a Confucian [1] teaching that instructs people to eat until they are 80 percent full. [2] The Japanese phrase translates to "Eat until you are eight parts (out of ten) full", [ 2 ] or "belly 80 percent full". [ 3 ]
Yamabushi (山伏, one who prostrates oneself on the mountain) are Japanese mountain ascetic hermits. [1] They are generally part of the syncretic shugendō religion, which includes Tantric Buddhism and Shinto. [2] Their origins can be traced back to the solitary Yama-bito and some hijiri (聖) (saints or holy persons) of the eighth and ninth ...
Taira no Masakado (平将門, died March 25, 940) was a Heian period provincial magnate and samurai based in eastern Japan, notable for leading the first recorded uprising against the central government in Kyōto. [1] Along with Sugawara no Michizane and Emperor Sutoku, he is often called one of the “Three Great Onryō of Japan .”. [2]
In On the Defense of Culture (文化防衛論, Bunka bōei ron, 1968), [206] Mishima preached the centrality of the Emperor to Japanese culture, [207] and argued that Japan's postwar era was a time of flashy but ultimately hollow prosperity (a "Shōwa Genroku"), lacking any truly transcendent literary or poetic talents comparable to the 18th ...
Yomi or Yomi-no-kuni (黄泉, 黄泉の国, or 黄泉ノ国) is the Japanese word for the land of the dead (World of Darkness). [1] According to Shinto mythology as related in Kojiki, this is where the dead go in the afterlife. Once one has eaten at the hearth of Yomi it is (mostly) impossible to return to the land of the living. [2]