Nitobe Inazō

Person · Open Library

Born

1862

Died

1933

Works

85

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Origin

Japan

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Phosphoregulation of Spc105 by Mps1 and PP1 Regulates Bub1 Localization to Kinetochores

   · 2012 · cited 357x

2. Signalling dynamics in the spindle checkpoint response

   · 2014 · cited 304x

3. Toll-Like Receptor-2 Modulates Ventricular Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction

   · 2003 · cited 249x

4. Mad1 kinetochore recruitment by Mps1-mediated phosphorylation of Bub1 signals the spindle checkpoint

   · 2014 · cited 188x

5. The effect of a nanofiber-hydrogel composite on neural tissue repair and regeneration in the contused spinal cord

   · 2020 · cited 143x

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

Japan

Place of birth

Morioka

Occupation

university teacher

Educated at

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Employer

Sapporo Agricultural College

Languages spoken

Japanese

Notable work

Bushido: The Soul of Japan

Field of work

bushido

Image

Monsieur Inazō Nitobe.jpg

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