OMOTE AND URA: CONCEPTS DERIVED FROM THE JAPANESE 2-FOLD STRUCTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- 1 October 1973
- journal article
- general culture
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 157 (4) , 258-261
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-197310000-00005
Abstract
The implications for Japanese psychological functioning of the inter-relationships of two concepts familiar to Japanese are discussed: omote, literally “face” is the pattern one would show to others; ura, “mind” in old Japanese, those private and intimate thoughts which generally are not to be shown to others.Keywords
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