Съдържание:
  • "Following one's lord into death". Sacrifice and self-sacrifice ; The Japanese custom of junshi
  • Nogi in history. Nogi's life sentences ; The sword and the brush
  • Nogi in literature. Mori O„gai's junshi stories. "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (first version): junshi postponed ; "Sahashi Jingoro„": anything but seppuku ; "Okitsu Yagoemon no isho" (second version): a spectacle for the lord's successor ; "Abe ichizoku": the perplexities of permission ; Mori O„gai's "Sakai jiken": rebellion and martyrdom ; Natsume So„seki's Kokoro: living as though dead
  • Coda: last stands in ancient Rome and modern Japan.