sentences:  Yamato-damashii
  
  For this national type of moral character was invented the name "Yamato-damashi" (or "Yamato-gokoro"), — the Soul of Yamato (or Heart of Yamato), — the appellation of the old province of Yamato, seat of the early emperors, being figuratively used for the entire country.We might correctly, though less literally, interpret the expression "Yamato-damashi" as "The Soul of Old Japan".