Title: Biopower And Induced Stress Or Four Oaths Of Hagakure - Which Culture Will Define Life In The 21st Century
Description: The text is in Japanese. Published and printed in Saga, Japan by the Hagakure Society. This text is part of the 300th Anniversary Celebration of the first writing of the Chronicles that became known as the Hagakure.The substance of the lectures was presented at the Third International Conference On The Hagakure, held at the University of Saga in October 2010. There are two principal themes. First the importance of "THE FOUR OATHS" - the ethical harmonising character of the Saga people from the days of the Samurai in the Feudal Wars era, which continues to the present day (by Professor Stacey B. Day). Secondly the WISDOM of the EDO-PERIOD EDUCATION and the stability and cultural strength that it has given the Japanese people (by Professor Kyoshi Inokuchi). The book, often cited in the version of Yukio Mishima -HAGAKURE NYUMON (The Way of the Samurai) has become one of the three Noble Classics of Japan.
Subjects: Warriors (Samurai), Bushido (Spirit), Japan Feudal, Edo-Era Education, 21st Century - Induced Stress (Terrorism), Chaos and Ethics
Places: Nabeshima-han (SAGA);  Edo; Bohemia (1586); China;
People: Yamamoto Jin-Uemon Tsunetomo (Jocho Yamamoto) ; Tashiro Tsuramoto; Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky);  Lord Mitsushige (1700); Tokugawa Shogunate
Time periods: Japan 1710-1716