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For centuries the Japanese national spirit (called yamato damashii), embodied in its best sense the honor, endurance, and loyalty expected of every good Japanese.
Takachiho in central Kyushu, armed with the imperial mirror, sword, and jewel that Jimmu (Japan’s first emperor) used on his conquest of the Yamato Plain near Nara.
The subsequent disillusionment has diluted yamato damashii as an ideal in the eyes of today’s younger generation.
The state of Yamato, as early Japan was known, was organized into uji, or clusters of clans, together with subordinate guilds of farmers, fishermen, hunters, weavers, and potters, all subject to the dominant uji of the imperial family.
Five centuries later, Japan’s own Kojiki and Nihon-shoki chronicles describe the creation of the imperial dynasty in the year 660 b.c. : the first emperor, Jimmu (“Divine Warrior”) — great grandson of the Sun Goddess’s grandson — embarked on an expedition of conquest from Kyushu along the Inland Sea coast to the Yamato plain of the Kinki region (near modern-day Nara).