May 25, 2024 · Seken: A classic kanji-word that vaguely indicates the totality of people with whom you have relations and deep comradeship. It is used in conversation and rather informal …

May 25, 2024 · From the ancient poems of the Man'yoshu to the bustling streets of the Edo period (1603–1868), and even into the Meiji era (1868–1912) and beyond, seken has woven itself …

Feb 15, 2007 · Seken refers to the appearance of the total network of social relations that surround an individual. It conveys the corresponding cultural norms and values that function to …

Author Ihara Saikaku in early Edo period titled his last story as "Seken, Calculation of Money in Chest," published in 1691, vividly describing people's struggles over money, actions and …

to social frameworks and institutional aspects. In contrast, the traditional Japanese term for “society”, primarily seken (the world) which has been in use for 1,400 years, encompas.

Seken seems to be a feudal inheritance, reconstructed as a disciplinary apparatus for late modernity. Nakamura Yoshiharu (1971:204) wrote that mura-hachibu (ostracism) occurred …

From the ancient poems of the Man’yoshu to the bustling streets of the Edo period (1603–1868), and even into the Meiji era (1868– 1912) and beyond, seken has woven itself into the fabric of …

In the Tokugawa period, while IE was the constituent of MURA (village community) in rural society, it faced SEKEN (lit. lay world) in urban life. Economic and business ethics in Japan …

By proposing a new model (the Hand-Carved Tripod Model) of conformity in Japan, the book shows the structure of the pressure to conform. The tripod is composed of ambiguous words, …

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of the “seken” in theTaisho era. The first chapter clarified the actual state of ”seken” with reference totwo world books written in the late …