Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590309855 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
“This is a great book for anyone looking for a more centered way of life, or just some good advice about living.”—Sacramento Book Review
His best-selling translations include Hagakure and The Book of Five Rings. . William Scott Wilson is the foremost translator into English of traditional Japanese texts on samurai culture
Emo said Littered with errors. This ebook is filled with typographical errors and incorrect automated word replacement errors. I seriously doubt that it was ever proofread. Yes, the ebook is inexpensive, but the sloppy errors are a disservice to the author, subject, Amazon, and reader.. Overall a great book! I really enjoy this book! But just a few things to keep in mind. It is translated to English, so that can always bring out the possibility of different interpretations from the original text. That being said, the translator for this version is very well educated in Japanese, . B. Neuls said A must for those interested in Samurai culture. At times, I found this a difficult a read, but in all fairness I'm approaching this from a Western point of view. It gives insight into what it means to be a samurai, and I think it would be helpful to those are curious about the culture.
Tsunetomo refers to bushido as “the Way of death,” a description that has held a morbid fascination for readers over the years. For this edition, Wilson has added a new introduction that casts Hagakure in a different light than ever before. The original Hagakure consists of over 1,300 short texts that Tsunetomo dictated to a younger samurai over a seven-year period. William Scott Wilson has selected and translated here three hundred of the most representative of those texts to create an accessible distillation of this guide for samurai. But in Tsunetomo’s time, bushido was a nuanced concept that related heavily to the Zen concept of muga, the “death” of the ego. Wilson’s revised introduction gives the historical and philosophical background for that more metaphorical reading of Hagakure, and through this lens, the classic ta