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The mercantile ethical tradition in Edo period Japan = a comparative analysis with Bushido /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The mercantile ethical tradition in Edo period Japan/ by Ichiro Horide.
Reminder of title:	a comparative analysis with Bushido /
Author:	Horide, Ichiro.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore : : 2019.,
Description:	xii, 233 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Merchants - History. - Japan -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7338-1
ISBN:	9789811373381

The mercantile ethical tradition in Edo period Japan = a comparative analysis with Bushido /
Horide, Ichiro.

The mercantile ethical tradition in Edo period Japana comparative analysis with Bushido /[electronic resource] :by Ichiro Horide. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2019. - xii, 233 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Advances in Japanese business and economics,v.202197-8859 ;. - Advances in Japanese business and economics ;2..

1 Introduction -- 2 Why study the ethical thought of merchants in Edo period Japan? -- 3 From "Bushido" to "Shonindo" -- 4 Case Analysis of the Shonindo -- 5 Shonindo: Characteristics and Issues -- 6 Conclusion -- Index.

This book demonstrates that during Japan's early modern Edo period (1603-1868) an ethical code existed among the merchant class comparable to that of the well-known Bushido. There is compelling evidence that contemporary merchants, who were widely and openly despised as immoral by the samurai, in fact acted in highly ethical ways in accordance with a well-articulated moral code. Japanese society was strictly stratified into four distinct and formally recognized classes: warrior, farmer, craftsman and merchant. From the warriors' perspective, the merchants, at the base of the social order, had no virtue, and existed only to skim profits as middlemen between producers and consumers. But were these accusations correct? Were the merchants really unethical beings who engaged in unfair business practices? There is ample evidence that negates the ubiquitous slanders of the warrior class and suggests that merchants - no less than the warriors - possessed and acted in accordance with a well-developed ethical code, a spirit that may be called shonindo or "The Way of the Merchant." This book examines whether a comparison of shonindo, depicting the ethical point of view of the merchant class, and Bushido, embodying that of the warrior class, reveals that shonindo may have in fact surpassed Bushido in some aspects. Comparing contemporarily published historical documents concerning both shonindo and Bushido, as well as Inazo Nitobe's classic work Bushido: The Soul of Japan, published in 1900, the author examines how Bushido surpassed shonindo in that warriors were willing to die for their strict ethical code. Shonindo, however, may have surpassed Bushido in that merchants were liberal, willing to expand and extend application of their ethical beliefs into all aspects of everyday life for the overall benefit of society. This ethical code is compared with that of the conservative Bushido, which demonstrably proved not up to the task for the modernization and improved well-being of Japan. Ichiro Horide is professor emeritus of Reitaku University. Edward Yagi (Reitaku University) and Stanley J. Ziobro II (Trident Technical College) collaborated in the translation of the original Japanese manuscript into English.

ISBN: 9789811373381

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-13-7338-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1229805
Merchants
--History.--Japan

LC Class. No.: HF3825 / .H675 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 330.952

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