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The way of the samurai: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure in modern life by Yukio Mishima; Koho Yamamoto; Kathryn Sparling is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. It later became known all over Japan, and during the Second World War Jōchō’s precept ‘I found that the Way of the Samurai is death’, became a slogan to spur on Kamikaze pilots.But the__Hagakure__is not only about death. In this, his adaptation and interpretation of it, Yukio Mishima deals with its teachings on action, subjectivity, strength of character, passion and love, and delights in giving prolific examples of Jōchō’s practical advice from proper behavior at a drinking party to child rearing. In the__Hagakure__, the most important influence on his life – and his death – Mishima saw striking similarities between his criticisms of materialistic post-war Japan and Jōchō’s criticisms of the sumptuous decadence of his contemporaries; and it is this emphasis which gives it its immediacy.

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Author

Yukio Mishima; Koho Yamamoto; Kathryn Sparling

Publisher

Perigee Trade

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780399509070

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24