Busido. Disalin dengan merdéka dari oelasan Inazo Niitobe ... oléh Tun Sri Lanang

Medan, [North Sumatra, Indonesia]: Poestaka Antara, 2604 [Japanese Imperial Year], [typ. S.J. Tapanoeli], 1944. First edition, approx. 7¼ x 5¼" (18 x 13 cm); pp. 42; stapled; original printed mauve wrappers; publisher's small rubberstamp on back wrapper; lightly faded, the text a little toned, else very good. Text in Indonesian. Although not otherwise stated, this is from the library of Professor Cyril Skinner (1924-1986) first Chair of Indonesian Languages at Monash University, and specialist in Malay and Thai literature. A rare Indonesian adaptation of Nitobe Inazo's Bushido: The Soul of Japan, originally written in English in 1900, ostensibly in Monterey, California (although the preface to the first edition notes it was written in Pennsylvania), here translated, and freely and greatly abbreviated by Tun Sri Lanang. Tun Sri Lanang is possibly a pseudonym, as Tun Sri Lanang, according to many online sources, was a noted administrator of the royal court of the Johor Sultanate who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries. This pamphlet was published in Medan during the Japanese Occupation in 1944. The work reflects the wartime proselytization of Japanese ethical and cultural ideals to Indonesian readers. In the Preliminary Checklist of Indonesian Imprints During the Japanese Period, it is noted as a free adaptation of Nitobe's influential study of bushido, which derives from a samurai moral code concerning samurai attitudes, behavior, and lifestyle. The preface, which is siged "Penjalin" (perhaps another pseudonym), seems to be a rebuke of Japan. If google translate is to be believed, the text reads in part (here paraphrased for clarification): This treatise I am copying explains some of the stupidity of Japan. By studying the reasons for this stupidity, we will surely become more aware of the stupidity of Dai Nippon. In our hearts, the height of the stupidity of that nation will be imprinted..." Inazō Nitobe (1862-1933) "was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer ... [He] devoted himself to women's education, helping to found the Tsuda Eigaku Juku and serving as the first president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University and president of the Tokyo Women's College of Economics ... In 1884, Nitobe traveled to the United States where he stayed for three years, and studied economics and political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In Baltimore, he became a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It was through a Quaker community in Philadelphia that he met Mary Patterson Elkinton, whom he eventually married ... Nitobe, however, is perhaps most famous in the west for his work Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900), which was one of the first major works on samurai ethics and Japanese culture written originally in English for Western readers" (Wikipedia). OCLC loactes just 3 copies: Univ. of Leiden, Univ. of Malaya, and Cornell.