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Shibumi
Keywords: Culture & History, Book
Shibumi is a novel by Trevanian. From the back cover: Nicholai Hel Born in the ravages of World War I China to an aristocratic Russian mother and a mysterious German father, raised in the spiritual gardens of a Japanese Go master, he survives the destruction of Hiroshima to emerge as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished - and highly paid - assassin. Genius, mystic, master of language and culture, Hel's secret is his determination to attain a rare kind of personal excellence, a state of effortless perfection... shibumi. The parts are titled as follows: Fuseki, Sabaki, Seki, Uttegae, Shicho, and Tsuru no Sugomori. The concept of Shibumi is said to be "great refinement underlying commonplace appearances; authority without domination". Trevanian spent some time as a boy in Japan in the 1940's. This is a copy of the living page "Shibumi" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |