Taming of the Samurai Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan

Name: Taming of the Samurai Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
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ISBN: 9780674868090

ISBN-10: 0674868099

ISBN-13: 9780674868090

Edition: 1995

Authors: Eiko Ikegami

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Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Ikegami makes this logic accessible through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organisational structures.

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/25/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 434
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Eiko Ikegami is Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University.




A Sociological Approach


Introduction



Honor, State Formation, and Social Theories



Origins in Violence



The Coming of the Samurai: Violence and Culture in the Ancient World



Vassalage and Honor



The Rite of Honorable Death: Warfare and the Samurai Sensibility



Disintegration and Reorganization



Social Reorganization in the Late Medieval Period



A Society Organized for War



The Paradoxical Nature of Tokugawa