Hagakure

Warrior ethics have been studied in famous books and popular movies such as Shogun and The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. The Hagakure was originally written in the early 1700s over a seven year period. Dictated by Yamamoto Tsunetomo to an assistant, the book was never meant to be published, but after TsunetomoÂ’s death the assistant published it to honor his master.

Warrior ethics have been studied in famous books and popular movies such as Shogun and The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. The Hagakure was originally written in the early 1700s over a seven year period. Dictated by Yamamoto Tsunetomo to an assistant, the book was never meant to be published, but after TsunetomoÂ’s death the assistant published it to honor his master.

Nunzia Castravelli, docente di lingua e letteratura giapponese a Napoli, traduce e introduce con 10 parole chiave i primi due libri (integrali) di uno dei testi più rappresentativi e profondi della saggezza giapponese: Bushido, Tokugawa, Morte, Seppuku, Kamikaze, Lealtà, Coraggio, Autodisciplina, Onore, Vuoto. Scritto da Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719), samurai del clan di Saga che abbracciò la vita ascetica, fu pubblicato solo nel 1906. Nel suo eremo “nascosto tra le foglie” dettò questi pensieri al discepolo Tashiro Tsuramoto. Malgrado utilizzato dai piloti-suicidi giapponesi nella seconda guerra mondiale, il libro è un manifesto di “impareggiabile moralità, energetico e rasserenante”, secondo il grande scrittore Yukio Mishima. Un libro che riscuote da sempre un grande successo nella cultura pop e manga delle giovani generazioni.

Everything about what it means to be a warrior can be found within the pages of this book, and it s just as relevant today as the day it was written. Words like sacrifice, integrity, and honor are more then just words to us; they are a mantra that sends shivers down our spines.

Everything about what it means to be a warrior can be found within the pages of this book, and it s just as relevant today as the day it was written. Words like sacrifice, integrity, and honor are more then just words to us; they are a mantra that sends shivers down our spines. It is this spirit of heart and calling that makes some rush to enlist during times of trouble while others burn draft cards and run for the border.

A definitive treatise on the code of the samurai–revised and with a new introduction