16th cent. Samurai: honour and code of conduct
Hi!
I'm writing a short paper for a history class about Miyamoto Musashi as an example/contrast of/to the code of conduct and prinicple of honour among sixteenth century Samurai.
Right now, I'm looking for texts, which were known at the time and do give guidelines for proper conduct. Unfortunately, I'm not reading Japanese well enough to research texts and so the only relevant text I have right now (since "Hagakure" and "Bushido" came much later) is Takeda Nobushige's "Kyujukyu Kakun" ("Ninety-Nine Precepts").
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance.
Joachim.
Joachim Hoss
Cologne, Germany
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