Quotes about Japanese culture

Explore a curated collection of 12 quotes about Japanese culture at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Japanese culture from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illus — Theodore C. Bestor, Doing Fieldwork in Japan
Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things. — Sōseki Natsume
The Japanese have two words: "uchi" meaning inside and "soto" meaning outside. Uchi refers to their close friends, the p — Alexei Maxim Russell, The Japanophile's Handbook
This was her heritage. Her people. So why did she feel so small and weak? So far removed from it? — Linda Gerber, Now and Zen
Never settle for normal, Miss Lyons,” Shinzo told her. “Normal is not natural. Extraordinary is natural, and that’s why — Kaylin McFarren, Buried Threads
Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japa — Alexei Maxim Russell, The Japanophile's Handbook
I do wish men, when they're taking their leave from a lady at dawn, wouldn't insist on adjusting their clothes to a nice — Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service — Alexei Maxim Russell, Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai
Yes," I continued, "I discovered this model recently and her style never fails to be mathematically perfect. She seems t — Alexei Maxim Russell, Trueman Bradley: The Next Great Detective
Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve o — Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden
Psychologically speaking (I’ll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me), encounters that c — Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
What alternative is there to the media’s “Us” versus “Them”? The danger is that if it is used to prop up this “righteous — Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche