Yamaga Sokō was a Japanese military writer and philosopher under the Tokugawa shogunate of the Edo period in Japan. As a scholar, he applied the Confucian idea of the “superior man” to the samurai class of Japan. This became an important part of the samurai’s way of life and code of conduct.

Yamaga Soko Quotes

1. “We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.”
— Yamaga Soko