Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Soseki

by Doris G . Bargen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $44.71

  On September 13, 1912, the day of Emperor Meiji's funeral, General Nogi Maresuke committed ritual suicide. The revered military hero's wife joined in his act of junshi. The violence of their suicide shocked the nation. This work illuminates Japan's painful transition from the idealized heroic world of samurai culture to the anxieties of modernity.