Hagakure - How to live and die as a samurai - Nuinui

The book of books. The most read, the most quoted in all Japanese literature.

The sacred text of bushidō in the most complete translation. The book of books, the most quoted in Japanese literature: maxims, precepts, exemplary stories to teach samurai how to make their existence a perfect gem, how to live and die.

Strategies good for warriors are useful for managers and are as valid on the battlefield as in the political arena: after three centuries this work retains all its stainless relevance.

Reasons for interest:

The most complete translation of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's celebrated work, illustrating the ethics of the samurai in its refined complexity

All the ancient wisdom of the bushi through short stories, advice, recollections and aphorisms

One of the greatest masterpieces of Japanese literature in a new, richly annotated edition

The most perfect synthesis of the spirit of bushido, the way of the Japanese warrior

Honor, respect for rules, steadfastness, loyalty and obedience to the lord: the samurai's code of conduct

A testimony on ancient Japan among the most significant and a useful tool for reflection on ourselves and our lives

Format: 15 × 21 cm

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Number of pages: 400

Author

ORNELLA CIVARDI graduated in Oriental Languages and Literature from "Ca' Foscari" University in Venice and in 1989 won a scholarship from Keio University in Tokyo. She has translated and edited texts by Japanese authors such as Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata and Ikkyu Sojun. For Kawabata's Tales in the Palm, he won the Alcantara Prize for Translation in 2005. With NuiNui he published, among others, Miyamoto Musashi - Complete Works Translated from the Original - The Book of Five Rings and Other Writings.