Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Yukio Mishima, Kathryn Sparling

Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Yukio Mishima, Kathryn Sparling

144 pages first pub 1967 (editions)

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The original Hagakure contains the teachings of the samurai-turned-priest Jōchō Yamamoto (1659-1719), and was for generations preserved as moral and practical instructions for daimyo and samurai of Saga Han, a large domain in northwestern Kyushu. ...

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