“Official dogma had ranked the merchants below other commoners because they did not produce anything. Like the samurai they lived off the work of others, but they did not share the samurai responsibility for administration and general welfare. In the… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
“A preacher ought to be good-looking. For, if we are properly to understand his worthy sentiments, we must keep our eyes on him while… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
“Official dogma had ranked the merchants below other commoners because they did not produce anything. Like the samurai they lived off the work of… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
“The Manyōshū is Japanese in the vital sense that the language in which it was written was Japanese, a language quite different from Chinese… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
“Individual caprice, or even considered personal judgment, carried relatively little weight in routine administration, with men preferring to base their decisions on consensus and… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
“the winning blows were struck by a typhoon on 15 August 1281. This typhoon has come to be known as the divine wind, or… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, Tokugawa policies were not based on some dictate of unreason, such as excessive nationalism or blind expansionism. They were Confucian in inspiration, and… — Richard H.P. Mason Copy Share Image
