The Way of the Samurai
5 hrs. 47 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Yukio Mishima
Author
Yukio Mishima
Narrator
Mikhail Polezhaev
Narrator
Mikhail Polezhaev
Description
Yukio Mishima is the world’s most famous and widely read Japanese writer.
He gained fame equally for his works across every imaginable genre (novels, plays, short stories, essays) and for his extravagant style of life and death (seppuku after a failed attempt at a monarchist coup).
“The Samurai’s Book” is Mishima’s reflections on “Hagakure, or Hidden in Leaves”—a treatise on the code of the samurai’s honor (bushido), sustained within the canons of Zen Buddhism, Shinto, and Confucianism, and compiled based on conversations with the seventeenth-century samurai Jōtō Yamamoto.
These stories of martial valor and military duty, of conscience and responsibility, recorded by one of Jōtō’s students, are not a collection of commandments, but an original method for knowing the world and attaining wisdom. “Perhaps ‘Hagakure’ is originally a paradoxical book,” Mishima writes. “During the war it shone, but in daylight it wasn’t very noticeable—and only in the darkness did the book truly glow. This book preaches freedom. This book calls to the heat of the hearts.”
Published in Russian for the first time in a translation from Japanese—the previous Russian editions of “The Samurai’s Book” were based on the English translation.
He gained fame equally for his works across every imaginable genre (novels, plays, short stories, essays) and for his extravagant style of life and death (seppuku after a failed attempt at a monarchist coup).
“The Samurai’s Book” is Mishima’s reflections on “Hagakure, or Hidden in Leaves”—a treatise on the code of the samurai’s honor (bushido), sustained within the canons of Zen Buddhism, Shinto, and Confucianism, and compiled based on conversations with the seventeenth-century samurai Jōtō Yamamoto.
These stories of martial valor and military duty, of conscience and responsibility, recorded by one of Jōtō’s students, are not a collection of commandments, but an original method for knowing the world and attaining wisdom. “Perhaps ‘Hagakure’ is originally a paradoxical book,” Mishima writes. “During the war it shone, but in daylight it wasn’t very noticeable—and only in the darkness did the book truly glow. This book preaches freedom. This book calls to the heat of the hearts.”
Published in Russian for the first time in a translation from Japanese—the previous Russian editions of “The Samurai’s Book” were based on the English translation.
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