NOGI, MARESUKE

märāˈsookā nōˈgē, 1849–1912, Japanese general. Made a lieutenant general in 1895, he became governor-general of Taiwan. He was the hero of the capture of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War and was honored as a model of loyalty when he committed hara-kiri to follow the Meiji emperor into death.

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Six Lives, Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan
Book by Robert Jay Lifton, Michael R. Reich, Suichi Kato; Yale University Press, 1979
Subjects: Death--Psychological Aspects--Case Studies, Japan--Biography, National Characteristics, Japanese
FROM THE WRITINGS OF NOGI MARESUKE Death Poems The light of god shines...memory is revered all the more. Nogi Maresuke The god departs from this world...Lords memory I know and follow. Nogi Maresuke Departing there is no day of return...
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In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture
Book by Xiaobing Tang, Stephen Snyder; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: East Asia--Civilization--20th Century
...cited in note 25. 40 Yoshikawa Torajiro, in a strange little book called Aa, shisei no hito Nogi Maresuke shogun Ah, a sincere man: General Nogi Maresuke Tokyo: Tentensha, 1984 , imaginatively reconstructs a conversation between Maresuke and...
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Hirohito and War: Imperial Tradition and Military Decision Making in Prewar Japan
Book by Peter Wetzler; University of Hawaii Press, 1998
Subjects: Hirohito--Emperor Of Japan--1901-, Japan--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Japan--Politics And Government--1926-1945, Military Planning--Japan, World War, 1939-1945--Japan
...to principles laid down by the former army general Nogi Maresuke. General Nogi was one of the two heroes of the Russo-Japanese...that Katsusuke died a glorious death in battle." 10 Nogi was known as a disciplinarian and for his devotion...
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A Heart at Leisure from Itself: Caroline Macdonald of Japan
Book by Margaret Prang; University of British Columbia Press, 1995
Subjects: Canadians--Japan--Biography, Macdonald, Caroline--1874-1931, Missionaries--Japan--Biography, Prison Reformers--Japan--Biography, Women Social Workers--Japan--Biography, Young Women's Christian Associations--Japan--Biography
...the Russo-Japanese war, General Nogi Maresuke, and his wife, Shizuko, clad in...the meaning and the ethics of the Nogi suicides. The late emperor almost...from public interest, and General Nogi was on the way to becoming the heroic...
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The Nature and Origins of Japanese Imperialism: A Reinterpretation of the Great Crisis of 1873
Book by Donald Calman; Routledge, 1992
...his pupils were to include another relative, Nogi Maresuke. The closeness of the ties with the Nogi family is indicated by the fact that Bunnosuke...sister, perform the kaishaku . For some time, Nogi and his brother had been Tamagis only live...
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journal articles on: Nogi Maresuke  - 2 results

 
 
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Intimate Alienation: Japanese Urban Rail and the Commodification of Urban Subjects
Journal article by James A. Fujii; Differences, Vol. 11, 1999
Subjects: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women, Women--United States
...crowded commuter trains continue to this day. Already in 1912, the headmaster of the Peers College at Gakushuin, Nogi Maresuke -- an erstwhile commander of Japanese troops in the debacle of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904...
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The Russo-japanese War: Primary Causes of Japanese Success
Journal article by Yoji Koda; Naval War College Review, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: Armed forces, Japan, Leadership, Military policy, Military strategy, Russia, War
...Imperial Army tasked General Maresuke Nogis Third Army to isolate...hills. Unfortunately, General Nogi continuously repeated these...the inflexibility of General Nogi and his staff officers, and...might have been that General Nogi lost both his sons during the...


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Japan's Attack on Port Arthur: February 8th and 9th, 1904
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 54, February 2004
Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905--History
...command of the China Sea, the Japanese overran Korea and invaded Manchuria in force. The Japanese Third Army under Nogi Maresuke, a general steeped in samurai traditions, laid siege to Port Arthur itself. The war was fought with heavy loss of...


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Nogi, Maresuke
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NOGI, MARESUKE mara sooka no ge, 1849 1912, Japanese general. Made a lieutenant general in 1895, he became governor-general of Taiwan...


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