3831115303

9783831115303

20 Feb 2001

198

0.26

21.0 x 14.8 x 1.1

Tsunetomo was a samurai retainer of the Nabeshima Clan, Lords of Hizen province, who became a Buddhist monk in 1700 after the Shogunal government prohibited the practice of tsuifukur: suicide of a retainer on the death of his lord.