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_aSuicidal Honor : _bGeneral Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki / _cDoris G. Bargen. |
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_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawaii Press, _c[2006] |
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_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tA Note on Dates, Names, and Crests -- _tIntroduction: An Incomprehensible Act -- _tPart I: "Following One's Lord into Death" -- _t1. Sacrifice and Self-Sacrifice -- _t2. The Japanese Custom of Junshi -- _tPart II. Nogi in History -- _t3. Nogi's Life Sentences -- _t4. The Sword and the Brush -- _tPart III. Nogi in Literature -- _t5. Mori Ōgai's Junshi Stories -- _t6. Mori Ōgai's "Sakai jiken": Rebellion and Martyrdom -- _t7. Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro: Living as Though Dead -- _tCoda: Last Stands in Ancient Rome and Modern Japan -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex -- _tAbout the Author |
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| 520 | _aOn September 13, 1912, the day of Emperor Meiji's funeral, General Nogi Maresuke committed ritual suicide by seppuku (disembowelment). It was an act of delayed atonement that paid a debt of honor incurred thirty-five years earlier. The revered military hero's wife joined in his act of junshi ("following one's lord into death"). The violence of their double suicide shocked the nation. What had impelled the general and his wife, on the threshold of a new era, to resort so drastically, so dramatically, to this forbidden, anachronistic practice? The nation was divided. There were those who saw the suicides as a heroic affirmation of the samurai code; others found them a cause for embarrassment, a sign that Japan had not yet crossed the cultural line separating tradition from modernity.While acknowledging the nation's sharply divided reaction to the Nogis' junshi as a useful indicator of the event's seismic impact on Japanese culture, Doris G. Bargen in the first half of her book demonstrates that the deeper significance of Nogi's action must be sought in his personal history, enmeshed as it was in the tumultuous politics of the Meiji period. Suicidal Honor traces Nogi's military career (and personal travail) through the armed struggles of the collapsing shôgunate and through the two wars of imperial conquest during which Nogi played a significant role: the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). It also probes beneath the political to explore the religious origins of ritual self-sacrifice in cultures as different as ancient Rome and today's Nigeria. Seen in this context, Nogi's death was homage to the divine emperor. But what was the significance of Nogi's waiting thirty-five years before he offered himself as a human sacrifice to a dead rather than living deity? To answer this question, Bargen delves deeply and with great insight into the story of Nogi's conflicted career as a military hero who longed to be a peaceful man of letters. In the second half of Suicidal Honor Bargen turns to the extraordinary influence of the Nogis' deaths on two of Japan's greatest writers, Mori Ôgai and Natsume Sôseki. Ôgai's historical fiction, written in the immediate aftermath of his friend's junshi, is a profound meditation on the significance of ritual suicide in a time of historical transition. Stories such as "The Sakai Incident" ("Sakai jiken") appear in a new light and with greatly enhanced resonance in Bargen's interpretation. In Sôseki's masterpiece, Kokoro, Sensei, the protagonist, refers to the emperor's death and his general's junshi before taking his own life. Scholars routinely mention these references, but Bargen demonstrates convincingly the uncanny ways in which Sôseki's agonized response to Nogi's suicide structures the entire novel. By exploring the historical and literary legacies of Nogi, Ôgai, and Sôseki from an interdisciplinary perspective, Suicidal Honor illuminates Japan's prolonged and painful transition from the idealized heroic world of samurai culture to the mundane anxieties of modernity. It is a study that will fascinate specialists in the fields of Japanese literature, history, and religion, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Japan's warrior culture. | ||
| 530 | _aIssued also in print. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | _aIn English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) | |
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_aJapanese literature _y1868- _xHistory and criticism. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aSeppuku. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aSuicide in literature. | |
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_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese. _2bisacsh |
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