Tales of the wise samurai

Drawing on oral tradition, as well as hitherto unexplored written sources, Pascal Fauliot offers us an anthology of the deeds of the samurai, an elite of gentlemen who were not only warriors, but also often Zen masters and fine men of letters. Staging the great principles of martial arts, strategy, the code of honor, Zen practice, these tales of the golden age of the samurai give us life lessons full of humanism and poetry. Ronin, masters of arms or proud daimyo compare themselves with the great leaders of the history of Japan who were Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

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