If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse…

Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. ✨ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, p.53, Kodansha International
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