Tsuramoto Tashiro

nihongo|Tashiro Tsuramoto|田代陣基|, (b.1678) was a young samurai who visited an ageing recluse Yamamoto Tsunetomo on March 5 1710 and remained fascinated by the older samurai of the Saga domain. He began to record meticulously the latter’s opinions on what constituted the warrior code of the samurai class to which they both belonged, and completed his 11 volume compilation of Yamamoto’s ideas, entitled Hagakure on September 10 1716. Hismanuscript was kept secretively in the possession of the Nabeshima clan of the Saga domain for almost two centuries, until it was finally made public in the Meiji period.