Vile
21st December 2003, 04:51
Hello,
I'm writing an essay for my Contemporary Japanese History class about the nationalistic movement in Japan in the early 20th century and especially the selling of the "bushidou" as a national idealogy. I've so far found a few good articles on the subject, namely Karl Friday's article "Bushido or Bull? A Medieval Historian's Perspective on The Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition", G. Cameron Hurst III: "Death, Loyalty and the Bushido Ideal", Ikuo Abe, Yasuharu Kiyohara and Ken Nakajima: "Sport and Physical Education under Facistization in Japan". As one can guess from the fore mentioned articles, I'm planing to take a critical viewpoint on the whole bushidou ideal.
The kind of books and articles I'm now after is the late 19th - early 20th centry commentaries to classical texts that influenced the the idea of Yamato Damashii (I've understood that Hakagure was one quite important influence) and the writings from that time that were popular and widespread among the right wing politicians and the army (like Inazo Nitobe's "Bushidou", which, If I've understood correctly, was not only popular in the Western world, but also in Japan). I'm also interested in any studies about the goverment education and propaganda drawing the link between Yamato Damashii and the "bushidou".
Hurst mentions Takagi Takeshi as Nitobe's contemporary, but I can't find any further information about him.
English language sources preferred, but Japanese will also do.
Thank you in advance!
I'm writing an essay for my Contemporary Japanese History class about the nationalistic movement in Japan in the early 20th century and especially the selling of the "bushidou" as a national idealogy. I've so far found a few good articles on the subject, namely Karl Friday's article "Bushido or Bull? A Medieval Historian's Perspective on The Imperial Army and the Japanese Warrior Tradition", G. Cameron Hurst III: "Death, Loyalty and the Bushido Ideal", Ikuo Abe, Yasuharu Kiyohara and Ken Nakajima: "Sport and Physical Education under Facistization in Japan". As one can guess from the fore mentioned articles, I'm planing to take a critical viewpoint on the whole bushidou ideal.
The kind of books and articles I'm now after is the late 19th - early 20th centry commentaries to classical texts that influenced the the idea of Yamato Damashii (I've understood that Hakagure was one quite important influence) and the writings from that time that were popular and widespread among the right wing politicians and the army (like Inazo Nitobe's "Bushidou", which, If I've understood correctly, was not only popular in the Western world, but also in Japan). I'm also interested in any studies about the goverment education and propaganda drawing the link between Yamato Damashii and the "bushidou".
Hurst mentions Takagi Takeshi as Nitobe's contemporary, but I can't find any further information about him.
English language sources preferred, but Japanese will also do.
Thank you in advance!