How can we cross-reference from one table to the other? The answer is a series of owl:sameAs triples.
My Q: Are these triples usually written by hand?
Solution:
- owl:FunctionalProperty and/or
- owl:InverseFunctionalProperty
Chapter 7: RDF-Plus
- owl:equivalentClass
- owl:equivalentProperty
- owl:sameAs
- owl:FunctionalProperty
- owl:InverseFunctionalProperty
Hagakure -- published on September 10, 1716 -- is a compilation of the philosophies of Yamamoto Tsunetomo, a close retainer (a person working in the service of another) of Nabeshima Mitsushige, the third ruler of what is now Saga Prefecture.
The book is interesting not so much for all of its philosophies, but rather for the historical context in which it was written. By the time Mitsushige passed away in May 1700, Japan had been at peace for aprox. 100 years. This left the samurai with the same problem facing our modern military: how do you remain a proud, disciplined warrior in times of extended peace? Imagine, then, how the fanatical, death-driven, honor-obsessed samurai of feudal Japan must have felt as they watched their profession stagnate. Tsunetomo himself was forbidden to commit junshi (a retainer's ritual suicide in order to follow his master into death) by the command of the Tokugawa ...
An apprentice is looking to maximize their learning opportunities, even at the cost of other opportunities.