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Yamamoto Tsunetomo was born 11 June 1659 to Yamamoto Jin'emon, then aged 71, and a woman whose maiden name was Maeda. He was the last born to the family, and regarded by his father as a superfluous addition who was intended to be given away to a salt merchant. [3]
A strict disciplinarian, Kumashiro's father believed in the warrior philosophy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo as written in Hagakure and supported Japan's military exploits of the 1930s and 1940s. [3] Early in life Kumashiro rebelled against this upbringing by immersing himself in film and Western literature. [3]
Prohibited book of Nabeshima, Hagakure The Analects (abridged). 1939 edition. Cover of The Book of the Samurai. Hagakure (Kyūjitai: 葉隱; Shinjitai: 葉隠; meaning Hidden by the Leaves or Hidden Leaves), [1] or Hagakure Kikigaki (葉隠聞書), is a practical and spiritual guide for a warrior, drawn from a collection of commentaries by the clerk Yamamoto Tsunetomo, former retainer to ...
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 crime drama film produced, written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.It stars Forest Whitaker as the title character, a hitman for the mafia who adheres to the ancient warrior code of the samurai, as outlined in the book of Yamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure.
Dr. Crippen (1963) – British biographical crime film concerning the real-life Edwardian doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for the murder of his wife [107] The Great Escape (1963) – epic war thriller film depicting a heavily fictionalized version of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW ...
Each of the assailants ended his life in a ritualistic fashion. [6] Ōishi Chikara, the youngest, was only 15 years old on the day the raid took place, and only 16 the day he committed seppuku . Each of the 46 rōnin killed himself in Genroku 16, on the 4th day of the 2nd month ( 元禄十六年二月四日 , 20 March 1703) . [ 35 ]
Morita Tsunetomo (Japanese: 森田 恒友; born 9 April 1881, Tamai, now part of Kumagaya – died 8 April 1933, Tokyo) was a Japanese painter in the yōga style; known primarily for landscapes. Life and work
Mishima: A Biography by John Nathan (Boston, Little, Brown and Company 1974, ISBN 0-316-59844-5) [296] [297] Scott-Stokes, Henry (1974). The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. La mort volontaire au Japon, by Maurice Pinguet (Gallimard, 1984 ISBN 2070701891) [298] [299]