We present to the Russian-speaking reader two of the most authoritative treatises on Bushido - “The Way of the Warrior”. This was the name in ancient Japan for a set of rules and regulations regulating the behavior and daily life of the samurai, a military class that determined the history of their country for centuries. Purity and clarity of language, depth of thought and utmost sincerity of experience characterize the works of Daidoji Yuzan and Yamamoto Tsunetomo, two great samurai who lived at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and tried to answer the question in their own way; “How do we live? How do we die?” In this book we also publish “An Introduction to Hagakure” by the famous Japanese writer of the 20th century Yukio Mishima, who with his life and death embodied the ideals of bushido in our days.