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Title: Unlike any other resource
Review: The preface and introduction to the book by translator William Scott Wilson is essential to understanding the aphoristic musings of the author in context. As far as I can see (I do not know Japanese), the translation is literate even poetic. I have not found any other book which is a primary source on Bushido and I am using it as a supplement to teaching Mishima Yukio in a class on film and literature. I felt that students needed another context for Mishima's Samurai ideologies. We'll see how it goes down, as I haven't gotten to it yet.
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