The WISDOM OF HAGAKURE
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"Introduction: The WISDOM OF THE HAGAKURE is a unique writing by Professor Stacey Day setting out a commentary on the Analects of Saga known as the Hagakure. Professor Day is a western born physician and educator who has become devoted to the prescriptions taught over three hundred years ago to be guiding features in the daily life of the Japanese BUSHI (feudal warriors). These recommendations for living were set down in a number of books that collectively are called Hagakure."
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The first presentation in the English language of the Hagakure (Spirit of Bushido) as Wisdom Literature. Bushido is the moral code of the samurai of Feudal Japan. As warriors (samurai) belonged to the highest of the four social classes of the day - bushi, farmers, artisans and merchants. The most significant teachings coming down to us now exist in the form of codes. There were three principal codes - Gorin Sho (Five Rings Precepts) of Miyamoto Musashi; the Budo Shoshin Sho (Rudiments of the Precepts of Samurai) by Yuzan Daidoji, and the Hagakure by Yamamoto Jocho of present day Saga, known during the Warring Ages Period as Hizen.
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