This book documents a tradition of pederasty among men in high station, and its author explains how the sword is "a simile of ideal and self-responsible man" when arguing that a "phraseology of virtue" maintains the "inner sword." This book discusses cigarettes before battle and explains two decades of national phenomena by leveraging giri, practical and immediate obligation, and gimu, hierarchical unquantifiable obligation. This work was criticized for not relying on firsthand experience, but it popularized the contrast between Western "guilt culture" and Eastern "sha
This book documents a tradition of pederasty among men in high station, and its author explains how the sword is "a simile of ideal and self-responsible man" when arguing that a "phraseology of virtue" maintains the "inner sword." This book discusses cigarettes before battle and explains two decades of national phenomena by leveraging giri, practical and immediate obligation, and gimu, hierarchical unquantifiable obligation. This work was criticized for not relying on firsthand experience, but it popularized the contrast between Western "guilt culture" and Eastern "shame culture." FTP, identify this ethnography of Japan written by the Patterns of Culture author Ruth Benedict.
This book documents a tradition of pederasty among men in high station, and its author explains how the sword is "a simile of ideal and self-responsible man" when arguing that a "phraseology of virtue" maintains the "inner sword."
The {Chrysanthemum} and the {Sword:} Patterns of Japanese Culture