Tsunemoto. Hagakur. Bushido. Tsunetomo J.

Samurai Tsunetomo Yamamoto lived in the 18th century. The trials that the Japanese warrior was subjected to those were subjected to were extremely harsh, and many samurai spent their life in constant anxiety before the danger of staining their noble name with an unseemly act. When his master died, Yamamoto intended to commit Sappuok in accordance with the requirements of honor. However, the new law prohibited ritual suicides, and Yamamoto had to become a monk. He lived to a deep old age and managed to dictate a book in which he together collected the dogmas of the honor of Samurai, the Code of behavior, the practical and spiritual leadership of the warrior - “Hagakur” (“Life in the folia”). His instructions shed light on the Japanese warrior so different from the European way of life and the moral philosophy of the Japanese warrior, the special place in the worldview of which is readiness and even the desire to give life for his ruler - the state of mind and heart, so little familiar to the Europeans of our time.