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The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan: Yukio Mishima on Hagakure Si King Ayer writes in his foreword:The original Hagakure contains the teachings of the samurai turned priest Jch Yamamoto (1659 1719), and was for generations preserved as moral and practical instructions for daimyo and samurai of Saga Han, a large domain in northwestern Kyushu. It later became known all over Japan, and during the Second World War Jchs precept I found that the Way of the Samurai is death, became a slogan to spur on Kamikaze pilots. But the Hagakure is not only about