Title
Voluntary Death in Japan,Used
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For most Western observers, the Japanese practice of voluntary death, whether the selfinflicted swordstroke of a warrior or the simultaneous suicide of lovers, is shocking and difficult to understand. The practice of voluntary death is deeply alien to Western Culture and to the Christian view that God alone is entrusted with power over life and death.In Japan, however,a tradition of voluntary death has existed for more than a millenium. The suicides of samurai warriors, of kamikaze fighter pilots, of artists and lovers are part of a tradition which stretches back over many centuries and which expresses a distinctive way of relating to death.In this profound and sensitive study, Maurice Pinguet carefully reconstructs this tradition of voluntary death and relates it to other aspects of Japanese culture and society. He shows that, in early Japanese myths and legends, acts of selfimmolation were often exalted as an ideal. A selfeffacing suicide was viewed as an ethical act: a way of restoring order in a world disrupted by conflict or marred by failure.Pinguet examines in detail the customs and elaborate rituals which surrounded the practice of voluntary death in different times and among different groups, from the seppuka practised by warriors in the thirteenth century to the suicide of Mishima in the twentieth. The result is a brilliant and absorbing analysis of Japanese culture and society an analysis which, by focusing on a practice that is radically different from our own, tells us something about Western civilization as well.
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