> The one who always comes first to my mind is Kusunoki
> Masashige... But I suspect we all have our "favorites" for
> whatever disparate reasons there may be.
>
> Certainly he was considered one of the paragons of samurai
> virtue -- but, oddly enough, more *after* the Meiji
> Restoration than before it. Well, not so oddly, really, when
> one considers that he fought for the emperor against a
> samurai government...
>
>
> Tony
Yeah, I would consider Masashige the samurai ideal. He's definately one
of my favourites, along with Yoshitsune and, for some reason, Imagawa
Sadayo. I think my fondness for Sadayo, which has seen me get my hands
on everything that's written about him even only briefly in English, has
a lot to do with Sansom's write-up on him in this History of Japan
volume 2. I'd kill for a translation of his travelling diary.
Angus
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