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Alex Bennett's completely new and highly readable translation of this essential work includes extensive footnotes that serve to fill in many cultural and historical gaps in the previous translations. This unique combination of readability and scholarship gives Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai a distinct advantage over all previous English editions.
Alexander Bennett holds doctorates from the University of Canterbury and Kyoto University. He has worked for the International Research Center for Japanese Studies and is currently Associate Professor at Kansai University's Department of International Affairs. He lectures frequently on Japanese martial culture and is Vice President of the International Naginata Federation and a committee member of the All Japan Kendo Federation, as well as director of the Japanese Academy of Budo. He is also head coach of New Zealand Kendo. His recent publications include Naginata: the Definitive Guide, Budo Perspectives, The History and Spirit of Budo and The Bushido That Japanese Don't Know (in Japanese).
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Conduct of life, Bushido, Conducta (Ética), Samurai, +BushidōPeople
Yamamoto TsunetomoPlaces
Saga, Japan (Fief), Saga-han (Japan)Showing 4 featured editions. View all 16 editions?
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Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
2014, Tuttle
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4805311983 9784805311981
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Hagakure: the book of the samurai
2002, Kodansha International, Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America
in English
- New hard-cover ed.
4770029160 9784770029164
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Hagakure: The Book of the Samauri
July 14, 1997, Kodansha International
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4770011067 9784770011060
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Hagakure: the book of the samurai
Publish date unknown, Kodansha International, distributed in the United States by Kodansha America, Inc.
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The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the bushido code.
The Hagakure is one of the most influential of all Japanese texts—written nearly 300 years ago by Yamamoto Tsunetomo to summarize the very essence of the Japanese Samurai bushido ("warrior") spirit. Its influence has been felt throughout the world and yet its existence is scarcely known to many Westerners. This is the first translation to include the complete first two books of the Hagakure and the most reliable and authentic passages contained within the third book; all other English translations published previously have been extremely fragmentary and incomplete.
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