武士道の話を「注）」に格下げするのはいいアイデアだと思った。あまり分析と関係ないし。
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武士道に見られる死生観
It furnished a sense of calm trust in Fate, a quiet submission to the inevitable, that stoic composure in sight of danger or calamity, that disdain of life and friendliness with death.
Hagakure is a well-known spiritual
and practical guide for Samurai warriors, written by an eighteenth-century samurai, Yamamoto
Tsunetomo in the Nabeshima clan in Japan. The book dictates how samurai were
expected to conduct themselves, how they were to live and die. While Hagakure
was for many years kept only to warrior vassals of the Nabeshima clan, it later
came to be popularized as a fundamental textbook of samurai thought. The
text illuminates the concept of bushido (the Way of the Warrior),
including living and dying for bravery and honor which is the essense of
Hagakure. (William Scott Wilson has selected and translated here three hundred
of the most representative of those texts to create an accessible distillation
of this guide for samurai. (The Book of the Samurai, Analects of
Nabeshima or Hagakure Analects) In the famous opening of the text, the author
refers to bushido as“the Way of death,”a description that has been interpreted in variously
nuanced way, was even used as a way of rationalizing self-sacrificial war
spirit. It is to note, however, bushido as depicted by Tsunetomo was under
the influence of Zen Buddhism, especially to its concept of muga, the
denial or the “death” of the ego.
