“The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.”

— Tsunetomo Yamamoto , book Hagakure

Hagakure (c. 1716)

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Samurai 1659–1719

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