Development of kokutai
- kokutai (國體) is the national spirit and identity of Japan.
- Sources
- The shinto legends describing divine origin from the kAmi. The imperial family is supposed to have descended from amaterasu omikAmi.
- The 200 year isolation, and the intellectual activity of the likes of the mito school strengthened and formalized it.
- Impact
- The expulsion and rejection of inimical thought-systems, such as Christianity.
- The selective ingestion of foreign influences, without being digested itself.