:Isagiyosa

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In Japanese society, particularly in historical feudal Japan, isagiyosa ({{lang|ja|潔さ}}, "purity") is a virtue, translated with "resolute composure" or "manliness".{{cite web|last=Schreiber|first=Mark|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/11/21/national/media-national/japanese-media-us-election/|title=Japanese media weigh in on the U.S. election|work=Japan Times|date=21 November 2020|accessdate=23 January 2023}} Able to be interpreted as "grace with pride",{{cite web|last=Fujimoto|first=Masaru|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2002/12/15/general/chushingura-chushingura/#.WNhmgq3P23A|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327011007/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2002/12/15/general/chushingura-chushingura/#.WNhmgq3P23A|title=Chushingura Chushingura|work=Japan Times|date=15 December 2002|archive-date=27 March 2017}} isagiyosa is the capability of accepting death with composure and equanimity.{{cite book|editor-last=Becker|editor-first=Gerhold K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6JJOEAAAQBAJ|title=The Moral Status of Persons: Perspectives on Bioethics|publisher=Brill|date=8 November 2021|orig-date=2000|page=123|isbn=9789004495029}}{{cite book|last=Slade|first=Toby|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zk5png7Z4cQC|title=Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History|publisher=Bloomsbury|date=November 2009|page=85|isbn=9781847887481}} It stands besides other central virtues such as public-spiritedness (kō no seishin), loyalty (seijitsusa), diligence (kinbensa) and steadiness (jimichisa).

Cherry blossoms, because of their ephemeral nature, are a symbol of isagiyosa in the sense of embracing the transience of the world.Richard J. Berenson, Neil deMause, The complete illustrated guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (2001), p. 121. Honda (2001) maintains that these virtues are not Japanese in particular but form a moral code common to all Asian agricultural societies.Honda Yoshihiko, 2001, ‘Taiwan de “Taiwanron” wa dô yomareta ka,’ Sekai 688: pp. 220-228, cited after Ulrike Wöhr, Japan’s “Return to Asia”: History, Diversity, Gender, “[http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/ICAS2/Woehr.pdf Images of Asia in Japanese Mass Media, Popular Culture and Literature]”, Papers Presented at ICAS 2, Berlin, Germany, 9–12 August 2001ü .