КОДЕКС ЖИЗНИ ЯПОНСКОГО КУПЦА НАЧАЛА XVII ВЕКА

Abstract

The article considers ethical admonitions of the Japanese merchant of the beginning of the XVII century Shimai Soshitsu who, having followed the example of samurai warlords, decided to pass wisdom to his descendants. This source is one of the first spiritual testaments of the Japanese merchant community representative, it describes the merchants and the money lenders’ value system. The authors believe that these principles laid the foundation of the Japanese entrepreneurial and labour ethics, which are so relevant nowadays. The analysis of the Japanese merchants’ business ethics is conducted on the basis of the Japanese historical and sociocultural reality of the turn of the XVI-XVII centuries.