Main views
Main views
Cleaning one’s name
• Guilty Culture and Shame Culturon
Repaying one-ten-thousand
Cleaning one’s name 洗清污名
addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously.
Taking one’s proper station 各得其所
• “The Japanese government … Japan’s fundamental policy to enable each nation to enjoy its proper station in the world.” • one trusted the map and was saf e only when he followed it. One showed one's courage, one's integrity in conforming to it.
The culture
Chrysanthemum culture in Japan
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Introduced into Japan
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In Japanese literature Contractions
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In modern Japan society
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Introduced into Japan
• You can either travel or read, but either your body or soul must be on the way.
Thank you!
• A shame society, also called shame culture or honor-shame culture, is a society in which people deeply cherish their reputation, and losing fame is much suffering than losing lives. • A shame society is contrasted with a guilt society and the distinction between shame and guilt as methods of social control.
Repaying one-ten-thousand
For family ko
For the Emperor – chu
Repa yme nt
Daughters-inlaw and mothers-in-law In the WWII
Reflections
Reflections
• Lummis wrote – “After some time I realized that I
The author
Ruth benedict
• Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist （人类 学家）and folklorist.
• Learning under Franz Boas the father of American anthropology.
Similarity In China
Lead the people with administrative injunctions and
In China, the law, concept of shame put them in their • place with penal and they will
would never be able to live in a decent relationship with the people of that country unless I could drive this book, and its politely arrogant world view, out of my head”.
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In Japanese literature
In ancient Japanese literature, there is a tale about JUSHUI, which is very similar to the Peach Garden, the wonderland of many Chinese literator. As to today’s Japan, thousands of stores, goods, places are named after JUSHUI, so we can learn the core content of Japanese chrysanthemum culture.
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Contractions
So, we can say the chrysanthemum is the national flower of Japan, and the chrysanthemum culture also influences every side of Japanese national personality. Their aesthetic consciousness, their dedicated craftsmanship spirit, and their goods made in Japan, are all building their country a better one.
The emperor of the late Heian period loved the sward and the chrysanthemum, and it is said he once decorated his sward with the pattern of chrysanthemum. Being the symbol of authority and nobility, this chrysanthemum emblazonry is the favorite of the Japanese royal, and today, it is still printed on the Japanese passport, and the Japanese national emblem is the chrysanthemum pattern.
THE BOOK
• The Japanese, Benedict wrote, are full of contradictions. • The book began a discussion among Japanese scholars about "shame culture" vs. “guilt culture”. • Reception of the book in Taiwan and China, and the book became a bestseller in China in 2005.
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In modern Japan society
Bushido Spirit（武士道）
• Bushidō , “the way of warriors” is a Japanese collective term for the many codes of honor and ideals that dictated the samurai way of life. • The "way" originates from the samurai moral values, most commonly stressing some combination of sincerity, frugality, loyalty, martial arts mastery, and honor until death.
The chrysanthemum and the Sword
THE BOOK
• It was written at the invitation of the U.S. Office, in order to understand the Japanese.
• This book is an instance of Anthropology at a distance, whose author hadn’t been to Japan.
is widely accepted due to avoid punishments but will be without a sense of Confucian teachings. In shame. Lead them with excellence and put is them in Analects, Confucius quoted saying: their place through as roles and ritual practices, and in
Taking one’s proper station
For civilian For a country
Taking one’s proper station
For now
Repaying one-ten-thousand
报恩于万一
• A man’s indebtedness (on) is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicating himself actively to the job of gratitude. • repayment of one‘s on to parents ko（孝）, and repayment of one’s on to the Emperor – chu（忠）. Both these obligations of gimu （道义） are compulsory and are man's universal lot.