Title: Suicidal honor : General Nogi and the writings of Mori Ōgai and Natsume Sōseki /
Authors: Bargen, Doris G.
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Nogi, Maresuke,; Nogi, Maresuke, In literature.; Mori, Ōgai, Criticism and interpretation.; Natsume, Sōseki, Criticism and interpretation.; Japanese literature History and criticism; Seppuku.; Suicide in literature.
Contents: "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 Ōgai's junshi stories. "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (first version): junshi postponed ; "Sahashi Jingorō": anything but seppuku ; "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (second version): a spectacle for the lord's successor ; "Abe ichizoku": the perplexities of permission ; Mori Ōgai's "Sakai jiken": rebellion and martyrdom ; Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro: living as though dead -- Coda: last stands in ancient Rome and modern Japan.