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Nitobe Inazō
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Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
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- Born
- 1862
- Died
- 1933
- Works
- 85
Top works
- Bushido
- 世渡りの道
- The Way of the Warrior
- What the League of Nations has done and is doing...
- Japan's innate virility
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- The effect of a nanofiber-hydrogel composite on neural tissue repair and regeneration in the contused spinal cord
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Quotes
- “A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot. Another compares learning to an ill-smelling vegetable that must be boiled and boiled before it is fit for use. A man who has read a little smells a little pedantic, and a man who has read much smells yet more so; both are alike unpleasant. The writer meant thereby that knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.”
- “Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." "To rush into the thick of battle and to be slain in it," says a Prince of Mito, "is easy enough, and the merest churl is equal to the task; but," he continues, "it is true courage to live when it is right to live, and to die only when it is right to die."”
- “Pilgrimages to all sorts of uncanny places—to execution grounds, to graveyards, to houses reputed to be haunted, were favorite pastimes of the young. In the days when decapitation was public, not only were small boys sent to witness the ghastly scene, but they were made to visit alone the place in the darkness of night and there to leave a mark of their visit on the trunkless head.”
- “We needed no Shakespeare to feel—though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it—that mercy became a monarch better than his crown, that it was above his sceptered sway.”
- “We knew Benevolence was a tender virtue and mother-like. If upright Rectitude and stern Justice were peculiarly masculine, Mercy had the gentleness and the persuasiveness of a feminine nature. We were warned against indulging in indiscriminate charity, without seasoning it with justice and rectitude.”
- “"Bushi no nasaké"—the tenderness of a warrior—had a sound which appealed at once to whatever was noble in us; not that the mercy of a samurai was generically different from the mercy of any other being, but because it implied mercy where mercy was not a blind impulse, but where it recognized due regard to justice, and where mercy did not remain merely a certain state of mind, but where it was backed with power to save or kill.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1862-09-01 ) September 1, 1862, Morioka , Mutsu , Japan
- Died
- October 15, 1933 (1933-10-15) (aged 71), Victoria, British Columbia , Canada
- Spouse
- Mary Patterson Elkinton ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1891 )
- Children
- Nitobe Yoshio; Nitobe Kotoko
- Education
- Johns Hopkins University ( BA ), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ( PhD ), Kyoto Imperial University ( LLD )
- Occupation
- Agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, writer
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- Monsieur Inazō Nitobe.jpg
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- Nitobe Inazō
- date of birth
- 1862-09-01
- date of death
- 1933-10-15
- name in kana
- にとべ いなぞう
- name in native language
- 新渡戸稲造
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Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸 稲造; September 1, 1862 – October 15, 1933) was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer. He studied at Sapporo Agricultural College under the influence of its first president William S. Clark and later went to the United States to study agricultural policy. After returning to Japan, he served as a professor at Sapporo Agricultural College, Kyoto Imperial University, and Tokyo Imperial University, and the deputy secretary general of the League of Nations. He also devoted himself to women's education, helping to found the Tsuda Eigaku Juku and serving as the first president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University and president of the Tokyo Women's College of Economics. He was also a strong advocate for Japanese colonialism, and described Korean people as "primitive".
Early life