Affirmation And Question The Spirit Of Bushido

Bushido is a moral code of laws, although no detailed expressly provides, butconstrains the behavior of the samurai class, and this exclusive moral code of thesamurai class is gradually being accepted by the various strata of Japanese society,play in the entire Japanese nationstrong binding.Mori Oga, on the one hand, by theimpact of this traditional samurai spirit, on the other hand, the particular experiencesof studying in the West makes his works free romantic factor, especially his historicalnovels, writing cold, objective attitude, full of contradictions, both progress side,conformism, even Mori Oga that he is "studying abroad to return the conservatives".First of all, Mori Oga held ambivalence about the concept of honor Bushido. Onone hand, he appreciated the martyrs died for the Lord of the ultra-utilitarian ethics,that the real honor is to fulfill the destiny he certainly martyrs died for the countryself-awareness, precisely because of the warriors of honor-for the national honor andpersonal honor sprinkle hot-blooded spirit, that makes many substantial obstacles tothe continuous development of Bushido contributed; the other hand, he alsorecognizes that the Bushido unreasonable and cruel, precisely because of bushidoitself cruel and paranoia that led to the Abe family perish.Secondly, the loyalty concept of the the historical novel Bushido also holds theambivalence. On the one hand, he is sure that the warrior class strictly abide by thesubordinate relationship between the absolute monarch, appreciation for the monarchgratitude in case the spirit of Bushido, and the guardian of family honor, vengeancesystem. The other hand, his ignorance of allegiance was questioned, no value,martyrdom death expressed sympathy for a higher demand, but also the moral of themonarch.In addition to the transmutation of social conflicts as well as the spirit of Bushidoin the Meiji period caused by the contradiction thinking the Mori Oga the spirit ofBushido, more importantly, is the Mori Oga contradictions, who is not only flowingtraditional conservative Japanese blood, flowing modernization of the WesternEuropean blood, internal and external reasons for the common cause the Mori Ogacontradictory view of the world.