Suicidal honor

by Bargen, Doris G.
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Published by : University of Hawai�i Press, (Honolulu :) Physical details: xiv, 289 p. : ill. Year: 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-277) and index.

"Following one's lord into death". Sacrifice and self-sacrifice ; The Japanese custom of junshi -- Nogi in history. Nogi's life sentences ; The sword and the brush -- Nogi in literature. Mori �Ogai's junshi stories. "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (first version): junshi postponed ; "Sahashi Jingor�o": anything but seppuku ; "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (second version): a spectacle for the lord's successor ; "Abe ichizoku": the perplexities of permission ; Mori �Ogai's "Sakai jiken": rebellion and martyrdom ; Natsume S�oseki's Kokoro: living as though dead -- Coda: last stands in ancient Rome and modern Japan.

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