Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
Excerpt
THE papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather
than
of the outer life of Japan,—for which reason they have
been
grouped under the title Kokoro (heart). Written with the
above
character, this word signifies also mind, in the emotional
sense;
spirit; courage; resolve; sentiment; affection; and inner
meaning,—just as we say in English, “the heart of
things.”