The Art Of The Samurai: Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure Editor's of Oxford University Press shockingly fast

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The Art Of The Samurai: Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure Editor's of Oxford University Press shockingly fast300 years ago, the former samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo wrote Hagakure, a masterpiece on the art and values of these much revered Japanese fighters; ever since, warrior chiefs have preserved it as a moral and practical treatise for themselves and their "samurai" retainers. Once closely guarded and shown to just a chosen few, it is now available to us all in this visually breathtaking new version. Whereas Machiavelli's "The Prince" shows how to succeed