The Japanese mind : understanding contemporary Japanese culture / edited by Roger J. Davies & Osamu Ikeno.
"In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explore"--Publisher description.
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2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Japanese chronology
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Aimai : ambiguity and the Japanese
- Amae : the concept of Japanese dependence
- Amakudari : descent from heaven
- Bigaku : the Japanese sense of beauty
- Bushidō : the way of the warrior
- Chinmoku : silence in Japanese communication
- Danjyo kankei : male and female relationships in Japan
- The Dō spirit of Japan
- Gambari : Japanese patience and determination
- Giri : Japanese social obligations
- Haragei : an implicit way of communicating in Japan
- Hedataru to najimu : Japanese personal space
- Honne to tatemae : private vs. public stance in Japan
- The Japanese ie system
- Iitoko-dori : adopting elements of foreign culture
- Ikuji : childrearing practices in Japan
- Kenkyo : the Japanese virtue of modesty
- Kisetsu : the Japanese sense of the seasons
- Nemawashi : laying the groundwork in Japan
- Omiai : arranged marriage in Japan
- Otogibanashi : folktales of Japan
- Ryōsaikenbo, "good wives and wise mothers" : the social expectations of women in Japan
- Sempai-kōhai : seniority rules in Japanese relations
- Shūdan ishiki : Japanese group consciousness
- Sōshiki : Japanese funerals
- Uchi to soto : dual meanings in Japanese human relations
- Wabi-sabi : simplicity and elegance as Japanese ideals of beauty
- Zōtō : the Japanese custom of gift giving
- References
- Glossary.