Looking for the title of a book by a samurai

[eli5241]

I remember my history professor talking about samurai in class and to give us an idea of the difference between the ideal of the samurai and what life actually was like he recommended two books. One was Hagakure which was the book about samurai ideals but I cant remember the title of the other one, which seemed much more interesting. I vaguely remember him talking about it, but I think it's written as a diary from a samurai living sometime (I don't know when) in japan, and his experiences fighting, drinking, being a loanshark, visitng prostitutes etc. I'm not completely sure but I think it's a diary and it was translated so its not a novel per se, but I was wondering if anyone might know about what I'm talking about.

[Stanislaw]

I think the book you are looking for is called: Genroku otatami bugyo no nikki: Owari hanshi no mita ukiyo by Jiro Kosaka



http://openlibrary.org/works/OL9901815W/Genroku_otatami_bugyo_no_nikki

http://www.amazon.com/Genroku-otatami-bugyo-nikki-Japanese/dp/4121007409

I hope that was helpful! :)

[Calidore]

Catchy title.

[eli5241]

Thanks, I think that is the one I was talking about. Now to find a copy of it =(