The image of the ideal samurai in the literature of the Samurai circle of the 13-16 centuries

Abstract

the purpose of this work is to study the formation and development of the image of the ideal samurai in Japanese literature of a didactic nature of the 13th-16th centuries. To do this, we will try to identify the components of the image of the ideal samurai in the most striking works of the designated Japanese literature. An important feature of these teachings is that they are essentially an appeal from samurai to samurai, and thus represent a view of military values as if from within this class. One of the interesting and important essential features of the teachings is that they narrate about the spiritual samurai ideals during the period of fragmentation and wars in Japan, which tells us that these ideals played a purely practical role in the life of samurai clans.