The Consciousness of Death and the Extreme Loyalty — An Exploration of Hagakure from the Perspective of Body

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10.2991/assehr.k.220110.148How to use a DOI?

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The Edo Period; Hagakure; body; The consciousness of death; the extreme loyalty

Abstract

The Edo Period was a peaceful period of the buke politics, and the word “Bushido” began to appear. Hagakure, written by Yamamoto Nagasu, is one of the most important classics of Bushido at that time. Hagakure was less influential than other Bushido books in the Edo period, and was ever banned in the Saga vassal state for a time. During the Second World War, however, Japanese nationalists made it a required reading for all, and postwar Japanese right-wingers praised parts of the book highly. The status change of Hagakure from non-center to center seems to indicate that it has some particularity. Therefore, this paper will investigate the Bushido thought related to “the consciousness of death” and “the extreme loyalty” in Hagakure from the perspective of body and try to provide answers to the above questions.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Han Xu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/28
TI  - The Consciousness of Death and the Extreme Loyalty — An Exploration of Hagakure from the Perspective of Body
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 780
EP  - 785
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.148
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.148
ID  - Xu2022
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