SABURO - The Saga of a Teenage Samurai in 17th Century Japan

by Boye De Mente

Overview

This is a series of true-to-the-life-and-times of a teenage samurai who, like his hero Musashi Miyamoto, opts out of the traditional role of retainer to a samurai lord when he is formally and officially vested as a samurai at the age of 15...choosing instead to become a life-long "samurai-in-training," meaning he becomes a freelance samurai. But instead of seeking out duels-to-the-death like his hero he seeks to engaged in instructive fights with other samurai...becoming so skilled he cannot be beaten...as did his hero, who gave up killing his opponents when he had killed some 65 warriors and thereafter gave only demonstration bouts, never losing one of hundreds he fought over the next decades. Saburo finally finds a master who teaches him the secrets of the nature of life.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012222411
Publisher:	Phoenix Books / Publishers
Publication date:	02/14/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	128 KB

About the Author

Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Japan, China, Korea and Mexico since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, student, journalist, editor and author working out of Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. He is a graduate of Jochi University in Tokyo, and The American Institute for Foreign Trade (in 1953), now Thunderbird School of Global Management, in Glendale, Arizona, USA.

De Mente wrote the first ever books on the Japanese way of doing business (Japanese Etiquette and Ethics in Business in 1959 and How to Do Business in Japan in 1962), and was the first to introduce the now commonly used Japanese terms wa, nemawashi, kaizen, tatemae-honne, shibui, sabi and wabi to the outside business world!

His 70-plus other books run the gamut from language learning to the night-time "pink" trades in Japan, the role of bars, cabarets and geisha houses in business, the sensual nature of Oriental cultures, male-female relations, and understanding and coping with the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mexican mindset in business and social situations.

He is a recognized authority on the code of Japan's famous samurai, having published several books on the subject, including SAMURAI STRATEGIES and THE CODE OF THE SAMURAI.