Tanım
•duty, obligation, burden of obligation · a formality; actions or words performed reluctantly out of mere social obligation · a non‐blood relation considered like a blood relation; ‐in‐law or step-
Etimoloji
From Middle Chinese 義理 (MC ngjeH liX). Originally, in Middle Chinese and early Japanese attestations, the term carried a philosophical and textual meaning of “righteous principle”, “reason”, or “significance”. During the Muromachi and Edo periods, under the influence of a stratified feudal society, samurai ethics, and the merchant class, the concept underwent semantic narrowing in Japan. The…