The WISDOM OF HAGAKURE
Subtitle: Way of the Samurai of Saga Domain
By: by Stacey B. Day and Kiyoshi Inokuchi.
Contributors: Inokuchi, Kiyoshi, 1921-; Hagakure Kenkyūkai.
Publisher: Hagakure Society c/o Saga Prefectural Library
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Saga, Japan, Kyushu University Press, Hakozaki, 7-1-146, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan, 812
Language: eng
Format: In Book Case. Plates illustrating text in color.
Number of pages: 146
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Yamamoto, Tsunetomo, 1659-1719.; Bushido.
Genres: Philosophy and Ethics; Japanese Culture
First sentence: Introduction: The WISDOM OF THE HAGAKURE is a unique writing by Professor Stacey Day setting out a commentary on the Analects of Saga known as the Hagakure. Professor Day is a western born physician and educator who has become devoted to the prescriptions taught over three hundred years ago to be guiding features in the daily life of the Japanese BUSHI (feudal warriors). These recommendations for living were set down in a number of books that collectively are called Hagakure.
Description: The first presentation in the English language of the Hagakure (Spirit of Bushido) as Wisdom Literature. Bushido is the moral code of the samurai of Feudal Japan. As warriors (samurai) belonged to the highest of the four social classes of the day - bushi, farmers, artisans and merchants. The most significant teachings coming down to us now exist in the form of codes. There were three principal codes - Gorin Sho (Five Rings Precepts) of Miyamoto Musashi; the Budo Shoshin Sho (Rudiments of the Precepts of Samurai) by Yuzan Daidoji, and the Hagakure by Yamamoto Jocho of present day Saga, known during the Warring Ages Period as Hizen.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Chapter 10. Notes, References, and Glossary. Page 144 presents CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF PUBLICATIONS IN JAPANESE from 1716 when Tsuramoto Tashiro completed transcription of the Hagakure texts in 11 volumes. During the period 1853-1884 Hagakure Kikigaki Koho (Correction and Addition to the Narrated Hagakure) was transcribed in 6 volumes. Recent publications in Japanese are by Professor Tetsushi Furukawa from Shibunkaku Shuppan, Tokyo, 1993 and by Yoshiaki Koiki, Kodansha, 1993.

Related writings in English include several volumes by Professor Tetsushi Furukawa 1960-1989; Professor Hideo Koga and Professor Stacey B. Day - Hagakuri: Spirit of Bushido, Kyushi Univ. Press 1993;   and Kiyoaki  Utsuo (Extraxts), Saga, 1991.
Table of contents: title: A Linguistic Note Concerning Names; title: Foreword by Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Univ. of Tokyo, Tetsushi Furukawa; title: Introduction by Professor Kiyoshi Inokuchi; title: Preface by Stacey B. Day; title: Chapter I:  Background of Hagakure; title: Chapter 2: In the Shadow of Leaves; title: Chapter 3: Death and the Hagakure; title: Chapter 4: The Joy of Hagakure; title: Chapter 5: Hagakure as Wisdom Literature; title: Chapter 6: Hagakure Aphorisms; title: Chapter 7: The Family (Including Father, Son, Husband, Wife, Young, Old, Filial Piety, and Benevolence); title: Chapter 8: Retainer and Lord (Including Comportment, Conduct, Loyalty, Fidelity, and Discipline); title: Chapter 9: Death and Attitudes to Death in the Hagakure; title: Chapter 10: Notes, References, and Glossary