Some quotes from the Hagakure:

About the Hagakure


About the Hagakure

Yamamoto Tsunetomo was a samurai in the early 1700s. Forbidden by law from committing tsuifuku (suicide of a retainer after his master's death), he retired to a monestary. Though he never fought in any battles, he nonetheless felt that the samurai of his time had become soft. A younger samurai that visited Yamamoto over the years wrote down his words in the Hagakure. It has been translated many times, including a translation by the famous Japanese author Mishima Yukio.
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Blair Powell / Dept. of Family Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology / University of Pittsburgh blair1+@pitt.edu