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   Yamato-damashii
   ==Origin of the term== Originally Yamato-damashi did not bear the bellicose weight or ideological timbre that it later assumed in pre-war modern Japan. It first occurs in the 乙女 section of the Genji Monogatari (Chapter 21), as a native virtue that flourishes best, not as a contrast to foreign c...
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