Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan

Acknowledgments
	Contents
I A Sociological Approach
	Introduction
	1 Honor; State Formation, and Social Theories
II Origins in Violence
	2 The Coming of the Samurai: Violence and Culture in the Ancient World
	3 Vassalage and Honor
	4 The Rite of Honorable Death: Warfare and the Samurai Sensibility
III Disintegration and Reorganization
	5 Social Reorganization in the Late Medieval Period
	6 A Society Organized for War
IV The Paradoxical Nature of Tokugawa State Formation
	7 Tokugawa State Formation
	8 An Integrated Yet Decentralized State Structure
	9 The Tokugawa Neo-Feudal State: A Comparative Evaluation
V Honor and Violence in Transformation
	10 Honor or Order: The State and Samurai Self-Determinism
	11 The Vendetta of the Forty-seven Samurai
	12 Proceduralization of Honor
VI Honor Polarization in Vassalic Bureaucracy
	13 State-Centered Honor and Vassalic Bureaucracy
	14 Hagakure: The Cult of Death and Honorific Individuality
	15 Confucian and Post- Confucian Samurai
VII Honorific Individualism and Honorific Collectivism
	16 Themes of Control and Change
Epilogue: Honor and Identity
	Notes
	Index