Danson Johi

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Danson Johi ( Japanese 男尊女卑 , German: “Respect for the man, disdain for women”) is an androcentric principle of the Japanese feudal and samurai times , which was an expression of the understanding of roles and the status of women at the national level and in the family that of men disparaged and subordinated woman to man.

The "Civil Code" of Japan of 1898 ( 民法典 , Minpōten , civil law) officially discriminated against women by giving them a lower rating. This notion was not prevalent at all times. It springs from Confucian thinking, which is designed for harmony. This harmony can be achieved by defining complementary roles. The man is therefore the representative of the family to the outside world, while the woman is responsible for all household issues. In the Confucian script “Onna Daigaku” ( 女 大学 , The high school for women ), one of the four classic scripts from the middle of the Edo period, for example, the man is associated with light, while the woman is associated with shadow. This understanding of roles implies that the woman must behave in a submissive manner towards the man.

Naoko Takemaru sees the principle of “Danson Johi” already being based on the Shinto-Buddhist conception of the impurity and sinfulness of women that existed in the 12th century.

The emancipatory counter-movement began at the beginning of the 20th century with the magazine Seitō (“ blue stocking ”), which was founded in 1911, among others . Since 1947, women's equality has been enshrined in Article 14 of the Japanese Constitution .

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  1. ↑ danson-johi. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2012, accessed June 21, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b Sepp Linnhart: Japan Handbook . 1990, p. 568 .
  3. ↑ Simone Heidegger: The obedience of women as a Buddhist virtue in Kaneko Daiei . In: Hilaria Gössmann, Andreas Mrugalla (Ed.): 11th German-speaking Japanologentag in Trier 1999 . Lit Verlag, 2001, p. 235 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Naoko Takemaru: Women in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of bias . In: Foreign Language Study . McFarland, 2010, pp. 235 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ English version on Wikisource