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Part 1 A sociological approach - introduction; honour, state formation,and social theories. Part 2 Origins in violence: the coming of the Samurai -violence and culture in the ancient world; vassalage and honour; the rite ofhonourable death - warfare and the Samurai sensibility. Part 3 Disintegrationand reorganization: social reorganization in the late medieval period; asociety organized for war. Part 4 The paradoxical nature of Tokugawa Stateformation: Tokugawa State formation; an integrated yet decentralized statestructure; the Tokugawa neo-feudal state - a comparative evaluation. Part 5Honour and violence in transformation: honour and order - the State andSamurai self-determination; the vendetta of the forty-seven Samurai;proceduralization of honour. Part 6 Honour polarization in Vassalicbureaucracy: State-centre honour and Vassalic bureaucracy; Hagakure - thecult of death and the honorific individuality; Confucian and post-ConfucianSamurai. Part 7 Honorific individualism and honorific collectivism: themes ofcontrol and change. Epilogue: honour and identity.