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The Book of Samurai

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The Book of Samurai
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Yukio Mishima is the world's most famous and widely read Japanese writer. He became equally famous for his works in every conceivable genre (novels, plays, short stories, essays) as for his extravagant style of life and death (hara-kiri after a failed attempt at a monarchical coup). "The Book of the Samurai" is Mishima's reflection on "Hagakure, or Hidden in the Leaves," a treatise on the samurai's code of honor (bushido), couched in the canons of Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, and Confucianism and based on conversations with the 17th-century samurai Jyoto Yamamoto. These stories of martial valor and martial duty, conscience and responsibility, recorded by one of Jyoto's disciples, are not a collection of commandments, but an original method of learning about the world and comprehending wisdom. "Perhaps 'Hagakure' was originally a paradox book," Mishima writes. - During the war it radiated light, but in broad daylight it was not very noticeable, and only in the darkness the book shone truly. <...> This book professes freedom. This book appeals to the heat of hearts." For the first time published in translation from Japanese - previous editions of "The Book of the Samurai" in Russian were based on the English translation.
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