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| #6239689 in Books | Polity | 1993-06-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x6.00 x1.25l, | File type: PDF | 365 pages | |||"A rapt, learned, historical disquistion on the idealised suicide." Sunday Telegraph . "One of the finest works by the late Maurice Pinguet. Admirable and necessary book." The Japan Times . "Pinguet's focus on the samurai will to de
For most Western observers, the Japanese practice of voluntary death, whether the self-inflicted sword-stroke of a warrior or the simultaneous suicide of lovers, is shocking and difficult to understand. The practice of voluntary death is deeply alien to Western Culture and to the Christian view that God alone is entrusted with power over life and death. In Japan, however,a tradition of voluntary death has existed for more than a millenium. The suicides of samur...
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