EALC 24422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Edo Period, One Vision

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Lecture and Discussion
EALC Week 6
Ie: “Japanese house”, 家, every person would have their own little house. The samurai
themselves would give up their allegiance to a larger house, and that would mean that they
“give up their live for the members of the house”.
How did the people disenfranchised the samurai
- Militarization
- Violent expressions about expressing their honor becomes less allowed
- Public and private notions of honor
- Contradictions within the system?
- How do you define honorific individualism?
- How can you define individualism within the samurai in the Tokugawa
period?
- The individual sense is overpowering the collective honor
What is the main (overarching theme) problem that she wrestles with?
- Ability to be individual while still acting on the same complex
- Longstanding commitment to a concept or a group will always be limited by the collective
- Japan’s recent industrialization + they don’t actually ascribe to the idea of the individual
Power and honor are very linked
- Understand the power structures which govern and influence them
Changing meanings of honor
- How can we characterize the changing meaning?
- You still seek to be honorable as society is changing, then you refocus what you
do based on how society is influencing you. There is always a way to refocus the
method in which you find honor.
- Later became a form of a social apparatus: became a way to maintain and
sustain status
Whose honor do you want to protect? Your own or your master’s?
Violence is an expression of honor
- Relates to the medieval understanding of honor
- Refocused: to a form of self-discipline
How is the social part (relationship between the samurai) and what kind of role honor played in
this relationship?
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Ie: japanese house , every person would have their own little house. The samurai themselves would give up their allegiance to a larger house, and that would mean that they. Give up their live for the members of the house . Violent expressions about expressing their honor becomes less allowed. The individual sense is overpowering the collective honor. Ability to be individual while still acting on the same complex. Longstanding commitment to a concept or a group will always be limited by the collective. Japan"s recent industrialization + they don"t actually ascribe to the idea of the individual. Understand the power structures which govern and influence them. You still seek to be honorable as society is changing, then you refocus what you do based on how society is influencing you. There is always a way to refocus the method in which you find honor. Later became a form of a social apparatus: became a way to maintain and sustain status.

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