Author:
Ikegami, Eiko.
Publisher:Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, c1995 (1997 printing)
Description:x, 428 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-420) and index.
Note:PART ONE: A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH -- Introduction -- Honor, State Formation, and Social Theories -- PART TWO: ORIGINS IN VIOLENCE -- The Coming of the Samurai: Violence and Culture in the Ancient World -- Vassalage and Honor -- The Rite of Honorable Death: Warfare and the Samurai Responsibility -- PART THREE: DISINTEGRATION AND REORGANIZATION -- Social Reorganization in the Late Medieval Period -- A Society Organized for War -- PART FOUR: THE PARADOXICAL NATURE OF TOKUGAWA STATE FORMATION -- Tokugawa State Formation -- An Integrated Yet Decentralized State Structure -- The Tokugawa Neo-Feudal State: A Comparative Evaluation -- PART FIVE: HONOR AND VIOLENCE IN TRANSFORMATION -- Honor or Order: The State and Samurai Self-Determinism -- The Vendetta of the Forty-Seven Samurai -- Proceduralization of Honor -- PART SIX: HONOR POLARIZATION IN VASSALIC BUREAUCRACY -- State-Centered Honor and Vassalic Bureaucracy -- Hagakure: The Cult of Death and Honorific Individuality -- Confucian and Post-Confucian Samurai -- PART SEVEN: HONORIFIC INDIVIDUALISM AND HONORIFIC COLLECTIVISM -- Themes of Control and Change -- Epilogue: Honor and Identity
