Also, if you're like me and penniless, this same translation of "The Hagakure" is available free as a pdf document at
http://web.mit.edu/port/www/pdf/Hagakure.pdf . I also have it downloaded onto my hard drive and might be able to send it (not sure how large a file it is) if anyone wants it and can't get it downloaded. (I could probably turn it into a zip file maybe?)
Interesting, but not the easiest reading to do... I found it very disjointed in presentation of ideas.
phil
Hirotada Tokugawa <
patriot014@...> wrote:
About Hagakure("The Book of the Samurai")-- read it with caution. Sure, it
has some great comments on bushido and what not, but it was written by a man
who had fallen on hard times, had become a Buddhist monk, and was basically
a bitter old man sitting in seclusion ranting about how the youngsters
didn't know nothin' from nothin'. Or, as my uncle puts it, this guy was
saying something to the effect of: "Kid, when I was your age, we knew the
_code_. We killed ourselves, and we enjoyed it, too!"
--M. (trying hard not to laugh at that last thing)
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