Code of the Samurai
A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu of Taira Shigesuke

Interesantna knjiga... Kolekcija saveta, mudrosti i priča o samurajima i njihovom kodeksu, što moralnom, što ratnom. Neke od priča se mogu primeniti i u današnje vreme. Veoma se brzo čita i odlična je za sve ljubitelje Japana.......more

While the content of this book is the same as "Budo Shoshinshu" I recommended above and I prefer the other translation, this one was the first book I ran into and got me very interested to use it as the primary focus for my dissertation. I agree with the official web site of Columbia University's Bu......more

Rule number one: Being aware of having to die honourably makes one a true samurai and a better person living a better life. "One who is a samurai must before all things keep constantly in mind, by day and by night from the morning when he takes up his chop-sticks to eat his New Year Breakfast to Old......more

Con el mismo estilo de "El Arte de la Guerra", El código del samuray nos indica precisamente el comportamiento que debe tener un samuray para que se le considere como tal, el cual debe ser honrado, sin temor a la muerte, leal, empático, y todas las demás cualidades que en nuestros días desgraciadame......more

Interesting and fairly short treatise on the expected behaviour for Samurai in 16th century Japan. I managed to read it in an afternoon (well, the English translation - my Japanese is very rusty so I didn't take much more than a casual glance at the original Japanese). The author by this time I belie......more