The honor of the Samurai.

Hi my people from Steemit, today I want to talk about a novel that really is a hidden gem, I will talk a little about: The honor of the Samurai. Written by Takashi Matsuoka.

I hope you awaken interest in her and search for her enjoyment.

"The honor of the samurai possesses
the same exoticism and action
vertiginous than Shogun,
but it's even better. "
San Francisco Chronicle

This novel will take us to imperial Japan in 1861, by then Japan is ruled by Clans, Great Lords or Daimios and El Shogun. Among those great gentlemen is our protagonist Genji Okumichi, Akaoka Daimo.

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The Okumichi Clan, is one of the most respected clans in Japan thanks to its Samurai and their ancestors. The Okumichi clan is feared by the great fury of its Warriors. Among these stands Shigeru uncle of Genji and one of the most feared Samurai in all Japan, his skill was such that it takes more than 10 men to be able to become a fair fight against him.

Can you be like the blind man in front of a painting, the
deaf in a concert, the dead in a banquet?
If you can not then get rid of your Catana and
you (Wakizasbi 1), your two meter Arch, Tus
arrows with hawk feathers, your Horse of
combat, your Armor and your Name. You lack
the discipline necessary to be a Samurai.
Become a Farmer Cure or Merchant.
Also avoid beautiful women. They are
too dangerous for you.
Suzume-No-Kumo 1777.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakizashi

The more we advance we dive into this story full of intrigues, revenge and feelings, Genji wants to take Japan out of a technological backwardness, this thanks to internal wars between clans, causing thousands of deaths ... now after almost Two centuries of peace are against everything that is foreign. But Genji will not be alone thanks to characters that you will know little by little.

The wise say that Happiness and Sorrow
They are the same thing. Will it be because when we find
the first also find the second?
Suzume-No-Kumo 1861.

Japan goes through difficult times because of the imposing arrival of Western technology to its shores, enter these things that are coming highlights a group of Christian missionaries who have decided to bring the word of God to all Japanese, but that will bring a wave of violence and intrigues against the Great Lord Genji.

Words can hurt. The silence
It can heal. Know when to speak and when
not to speak constitute the wisdom of the wise.
Knowledge can stop. The ignorance
can free Know when to know and when
not knowing is the wisdom of the prophets.
Without the restraint of words, silence,
knowledge or ignorance, a sharp blade
cut cleanly. This is the Wisdom of the Warriors.
Suzume-No-Kumo 1434

Translated from Japanese by Emily Gibson
with Genji Okumichi's Advice,
Daimio of Akaoka, in the year of the Lord of 1861.

"I, Okumishi No Kami Hironobu, I was elevated to the dignity of Great Lord. He was not yet seven years old.
This was the beginning of the rise of our clan, the Okumichi, and the beginning of the importance of our domain, Akaoka.
Those who follow me, pay attention to the words written in these secret scrolls of our Clan, scrolls full of wisdom, history and prophecies written in the blood of your ancestors. What I have started, do not stop continuing it.
May all the gods and Buddhas of the Ten thousand paradises smile to you, strengthen our domain.
May all the ghosts and demons of Ten thousand hells pursue for all eternity those who do not defend our honor. "

This is your Catana
to make it, the steel was thrown into the fire,
was bent and beaten again and again until
that twenty thousand layers of purified metal were
they became one. Of each ingot that licked
the flames, only a sixth part survived
to become a leaf and a tang.

Reflect on this with attention.
Clearly captures the difference between definition
and metaphor, and the limitations of each one.

Only then will you be trained to
unsheathing this weapon and employing it in matters
of life or death.

https://historiasamurai.com/2016/02/05/las-espadas-malditas-de-muramasa/