...slights inflicted...[are] defilements...You may consider the cases of vendetta so often met with in the public and private life of Japan merely as a kind of morning tub which a people take with whom the love of cleanliness has grown into a passion.

from The Life and Thought of Japan,1913,
by Yoshisaburo Okakura





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