Sokō Yamaga

Sokō Yamaga (山鹿素行, Yamaga Sokō ) (Aizu, September 21st 1622 - October 23rd 1685) was a Stratège and a Philosophe Japanese.

Sokō Yamaga was a Rōnin beginning of the era Edo which codified the code of the bushido. Confucianist, it applied the idea of Confucius of a “man higher” than the Japanese class of the Samurai S. This one, which was not whereas a military caste little well-read woman, was found désœuvrée because of peace forced after the catch to be able of Ieyasu Tokugawa, in spite of the privileges that conferred the new era on their class, and honor defined by Sokō Yamaga codes it made it possible to redefine their goal, their role and to find a new raison d'être to them.

brilliance raises of Hayashi Razan, it acquired as of its youth a reputation of Master of the military theory, then of many avid samurais to use their leisures with their personal improvement Yamaga Soko had an lively interest for military science; it was devoted to the study of the strategy, the tactic and the weapons, like with the setting-up of a military intelligence service. He is also the founder of the school of the yamaga-ryū .

He had as raises Yūzan Daidōji, samurai of the Clan Daidōji, author of the famous book of bushido, Budō shōshin shū .

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http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/chushinguranew/Bushido/yamaga-soko.htm

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