sentences:  The Heian poet Akazome Emon first used "Yamato-gokoro" in her "Goshūi Wakashū" (後拾遺和歌集 "Later Collection of Waka Gleanings," 1086).Since "Wa" 和 commonly abbreviates "Yamato" 大和 "Japan; Japanese", 和魂 (also read "Wakon") is a contraction of "Yamato-damashii".The "Konjaku Monogatarishū" (circa 1120) first uses it describing a burglar who murdered a nattering scholar of Chinese classical law.