Yukio Mishima is the world's most famous and widely read Japanese writer. He was equally famous for his works in all conceivable genres (romances, plays, stories, essays), and extravagant lifestyle and death (harakiri after a failed attempt at a monarchical coup). "The Book of Samurai" is Mishima's reflections on "Hagakura, or Hidden in the foliage" - a treatise on the code of honor of the samurai (Busido), held in the canons of Zen Buddhism, Shinto and Confucianism and compiled on the basis of conversations with the 17th-century samurai Jothyo Yamamoto . These stories of military prowess and military duty, conscience and responsibility, recorded by one of the disciples of Jt, are not a collection of commandments, but an original method of knowing the world and comprehending wisdom. “Perhaps Hagakure is originally a paradox book,” Mishima writes. - During the war, it radiated light, but in broad daylight it was not very noticeable, and only in the darkness did the book shine for real. This book is about freedom[edit] This book calls to the heat of hearts." For the first time published in translation from Japanese - previous editions of the "Book of Samurai" in Russian were based on the English translation.