Japanese Culture

Hello to everybody,

I am a subscriber from Spain very interested in
martial arts and Japanese culture, I have never been
in Japan, and I hope to go there one day. As I've seen
for last two years this group is populated with a lot
of people that have a very good knwoledge about Japan
and about its history, so I throw you a question that
may be some of you can answer. Recently I've listened
about the compund japanese term Yamato Damashii, I've
tried to find some information about but haven't
succeed too much, I think that is somtehing about
japanese patriotic, ethics, feelings, ...

¿could you explain briefly what does Yamato Damashii
mean?

¿can you recomend me some reading or book about this?

Thanks in advance and happy 2006 to everybody

Miguel A. Ortega



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