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Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan is the most influential book ever written on the Japanese Way of the Warrior. A classic study of Japanese culture, the book outlines the moral code of the Samurai way of living and the virtues every Samurai warrior holds dear. It is widely read today in Japan and around the world.

There are seven core precepts of Bushido:

• Rectitude: The power of deciding upon a certain course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering.
• Courage: Doing what is right.
• Benevolence: Love, magnanimity, affection for others, sympathy and pity.
• Civility: Courtesy and urbanity of manners.
• Sincerity: The end and the beginning of all things.
• Honor: A vivid conscious of personal dignity and worth.
• Loyalty: Homage and fealty to a superior.

Together, these seven values create a system of beliefs unique to Japanese philosophy and culture that is widely followed today. Inazo Nitobe, one of Japan's foremost scholars, thoroughly explores each of these values and explains how they differ from their Western counterparts. Until you understand the philosophy behind the ethics, you will never fully grasp what it meant to be a Samurai--what it meant to have Bushido. In Bushido, Nitobe points out similarities between Western and Japanese history and culture. He argues that no matter how different any two cultures may appear to be on the surface, they are still created by human beings, and as such have deep similarities. Nitobe believed that connecting Bushido with greater teachings could make an important contribution to all humanity--that the way of the Samurai is not something peculiarly Japanese, but of value to the entire human race.

With an extensive new introduction and notes by Alex Bennett, a respected scholar of Japanese history, culture and martial arts with a firsthand knowledge of the Japanese warrior code, Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan is an essential guide to the essence of Japanese culture. Bennett's views on this subject are revolutionizing our understanding of Bushido, as expressed in his Japanese bestseller The Bushido the Japanese Don't Know About.

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To many people, the word samurai conjures images of menacing masks, long blades and elaborate armor. However, this classic text by Inazo Nitobe reveals the greater depths to samurai culture - they were not simply warriors but an aristocratic class who practiced literary and military arts in equal measure.

Essential to this way of life was the samurai's moral code and the quality of bushido, roughly translated as chivalry. The Way of the Samurai provides an intriguing exploration of bushido and other valued qualities such as rectitude or justice, courage, politeness, veracity, honor, loyalty and self-control. It also explores the Samurai's more violent traditions, such as the chilling act of hara-kiri or self-immolation.

This mixture of chivalric principles with brutal warfare is fascinating. While many aspects of Samurai culture have disappeared, its principles still have resonance in modern Japanese society and around the globe.

This compact gilded hardback edition is an essential read for anybody interested in Japanese culture.

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The Way of the Samurai: Unveiling the Heart of Ancient Warriors

When you hear the word samurai, you might imagine fierce fighters wearing masks and wielding long swords. But there's more to samurai culture than just battles. Inazo Nitobe's classic text reveals that samurai were not only warriors but also part of an aristocratic class. They balanced their martial skills with a deep appreciation for literature and the arts.

Key Points:

Bushido: This was the samurai's moral code, akin to chivalry. It emphasized qualities like honesty, courage, politeness, and loyalty.Exploring Bushido: The book delves into these values, shedding light on the samurai's way of life.Violent Traditions: Alongside their noble principles, samurai also had brutal practices, such as the intense ritual of hara-kiri (self-immolation).Enduring Influence: Although many aspects of samurai culture have faded, their principles still resonate in modern Japan and beyond.

The samurai were more than just warriors-they embodied a rich blend of honor, discipline, and tradition.

Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a book written by Inazo Nitobe exploring the way of the samurai. Bushido: The Soul of Japan is, along with the classic text Hagakure by Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1659-1719), a study of the way of the samurai. A best-seller in its day, it was read by many influential foreigners, among them President Theodore Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy and Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts. 1] Nitobe originally wrote Bushido: The Soul of Japan in English (1899), in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The book was not translated into Japanese until it had been popular in the English-speaking world for several years. As Japan underwent deep transformations of its traditional lifestyle while becoming a modern nation, Nitobe engaged in an inquiry into the ethos of his nation, and the result of his meditations was this seminal work. A fine stylist in English, he wrote many books in that language, which earned him a place among the best known Japanese writers of his age. He found in Bushido, the Way of the Warrior, the sources of the eight virtues most admired by his people: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty and self-control. He also delved into the other indigenous traditions of Japan, such as Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism and the moral guidelines handed down over hundreds of years by Japan's samurai and sages. In addition, he sought similarities and contrasts by citing not only Western philosophers and statesmen, but also the shapers of European and American thought and civilization going back to the Romans, the Greeks and Biblical citation needed] times. He found a close resemblance between the samurai ethos of what he called Bushido and the spirit of medieval chivalry and the ethos of ancient Greece, as observed in books such as the Iliad of Homer.

This luxurious gift edition presents Inazo Nitobe's classic work, The Way of the Samurai, featuring stenciled page edges and full-color illustrations.

To many people, the word samurai conjures images of menacing masks, long blades and elaborate armor. However, this classic text by Inazo Nitobe reveals the greater depths to samurai culture - they were not simply warriors but an aristocratic class who practiced literary and military arts in equal measure.

Essential to this way of life was the samurai's moral code and the quality of bushido, roughly translated as chivalry. The Way of the Samurai provides an intriguing exploration of bushido and other valued qualities such as rectitude or justice, courage, politeness, veracity, honor, loyalty and self-control. It also explores the Samurai's more violent traditions, such as the chilling act of hara-kiri or self-immolation.

This mixture of chivalric principles with brutal warfare is fascinating. While many aspects of Samurai culture have disappeared, its principles still have resonance in modern Japanese society and around the globe.

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Bushido, the Soul of Japan is a Japanese culture text by Inazo Nitobe. Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up specimen of an antique virtue preserved in the herbarium of our history. It is still a living object of power and beauty among us; and if it assumes no tangible shape or form, it not the less scents the moral atmosphere, and makes us aware that we are still under its potent spell. The conditions of society which brought it forth and nourished it have long disappeared.

Nitobe wrote a great deal. He was the author of numerous works, both for academics and the general public (see below). Not only that, but he peddled hundreds of articles to widely read newspapers and magazines. Nitobe wrote Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900), initially publishing it in English for Western readers, as a seminal work on samurai ethics and Japanese culture. Later, translators translated it into Japanese and numerous other languages. Nitobe's other works also garnered attention from Western audiences. Japanese scholars like Inoue Tetsujiro and Tsuda Sokichi [ja] were among those who criticized or dismissed Bushido: The Soul of Japan, which led to a significant difference in its reception and impact between Japan and the West. The most widely distributed work on the subject of bushido, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, did not achieve its peak of popularity in Japan until the 1980s. The book Bushido: The Soul of Japan has been a bestseller in the West since the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05. Among the many notable foreigners who read it were Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, and many more. It suggested to H. G. Wells a solution to solve the problem of combining progress with political stability. Some have said that the book shows samurai in a Western chivalric light, which is at odds with the pre-Meiji era bushido, which was a code of conduct for warriors that prioritized honor above all else. Regardless, this book was an innovative one.

The Way of the Samurai: Unveiling the Heart of Ancient Warriors

When you hear the word samurai, you might imagine fierce fighters wearing masks and wielding long swords. But there's more to samurai culture than just battles. Inazo Nitobe's classic text reveals that samurai were not only warriors but also part of an aristocratic class. They balanced their martial skills with a deep appreciation for literature and the arts.

Key Points:

Bushido: This was the samurai's moral code, akin to chivalry. It emphasized qualities like honesty, courage, politeness, and loyalty.Exploring Bushido: The book delves into these values, shedding light on the samurai's way of life.Violent Traditions: Alongside their noble principles, samurai also had brutal practices, such as the intense ritual of hara-kiri (self-immolation).Enduring Influence: Although many aspects of samurai culture have faded, their principles still resonate in modern Japan and beyond.

The samurai were more than just warriors-they embodied a rich blend of honor, discipline, and tradition.

2013 Reprint of 1905 10th Revised and Enlarged Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This is a revised and enlarged edition of a book whose charm is difficult to express in a paragraph. It is so packed with thought, so attractive in style, so rich in comparative illustrations of Oriental and Occidental ways of looking at things, but never bigoted or narrow. Bushido is the Japanese feudal equivalent of chivalry. It embodies the maxims of educational training brought to bear on the Samurai, or warrior class of Japan, the class that throughout the nation's feudal age set the standard for the whole population in manners, ideals of character and mental and moral codes of obligation. Bushido was an organic growth of centuries of military careers. It is unwritten, like the English Constitution, yet of it has grown modern Japan. Nitobe presents Bushido not just as a martial discipline, but as a pervasive system of ethics and morals and a living school of thought, life and ideals that can draw strength from the past to advance the present and future. Bushido has no set dogma, but consists of qualities and practices such as courage, benevolence, politeness, veracity, sincerity, honour, loyalty and self-control, all of which he examines.

Bushido, often translated as Way of the Warrior, came from the Samurai way of life and moral code. It emphasized loyalty, skill, moderation and honor, and became a widespread influence throughout Japan. In Shogakukan Kokugo Daijiten, the Japanese dictionary, Bushido is defined as a unique philosophy (ronri) that spread through the warrior class from the Muromachi (chusei) period. Nitobe Inazo, in his book Bushido: The Soul of Japan, described it in this way. ...Bushido, then, is the code of moral principles which the samurai were required or instructed to observe...More frequently it is a code unuttered and unwritten...It was an organic growth of decades and centuries of military career.

A century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried about the ethos of his people composed this seminal work, which with his numerous other writings in English made him the best, known Japanese writer in the West during his lifetime.

One of the best early explorations of Japanese culture and samurai ethics written in the English language

Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding the soul of Japan.

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Bushido o «camino del guerrero es una de las primeras obras escritas desde Japón para acercarnos a una cultura que se remonta al feudalismo y a la ¬ gura del samurái. Sus valores de rectitud, coraje, benevolencia, cortesía, sinceridad, honor, lealtad y autocontrol siguen siendo las virtudes más admiradas en el espíritu nipón. Y todas se nos presentan aquí con una perspectiva global, repleta de comparaciones con el pensamiento moderno o las obras clásicas de autores como Shakespeare, y en la que el budismo y el confucionismo conviven con la filosofía de la Antigüedad. Por ¬fin Oriente y Occidente comenzaban a darse la mano en esta guía esencial para comprender la cultura
japonesa.

Bushido or path of the warrior is one of the first Japanese works that brings us closer to a culture that dates to feudalism and the figure of the samurai. It demonstrates values of righteousness, courage, benevolence, sincerity, loyalty, and self-control all of which continue to be the most admired virtues in the Japanese spirit. This work portrays a global perspective full of comparisons with modern thought and in which Buddhism and Confucianism coexist with the philosophy of Antiquity. At last, East and West began to shake hands through this essential guide to understanding Japanese culture.

El Bushido o el código de conducta de los guerreros samuráis trata de fomentar las virtudes marciales, el honor y la indiferencia que se debía mostrar ante el dolor y la muerte. Este severo código de conducta llenó plenamente el alma de Japón, permitiéndonos conocer su mentalidad y sus costumbres.Sin duda alguna, Bushido es un libro imprescindible para conocer el alma y la filosofía de Japón.

Bushido: The Soul of Japan, Published in 1900 is a book written by InazōNitobe exploring the way of the samurai. Bushido: The Soul of Japanwas a best-seller in its day, it was read by many influential foreigners, among them President Theodore Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy and Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts. Bushido is the chivalric code of moral principles that the Samurai followed: rectitude, courage, benevolence, respect, honesty, honour and loyalty.Influenced by Confucianism, Shinto and Zen Buddhism, it tempers the violence of a warrior with wisdom and serenity. Alongside Sun Tzu s The Art of War and Machiavelli s The Prince, Inazo's book has become influential among military and corporate leaders looking for ways to manage their people and overcome their opponents. In Bushido, Nitobe points out similarities between Western and Japanese history and culture. He argues that no matter how different any two cultures may appear to be on the surface, they are still created by human beings, and as such have deep similarities. Nitobe believed that connecting Bushido with greater teachings could make an important contribution to all humanity-that the way of the Samurai is not something peculiarly Japanese, but of value to the entire human race.

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Inazo Nitobe's Bushido the Soul of Japan is a classic work on a warrior culture. Nitobe examines the moral and ethical qualities which make a Samurai -- such as rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-control. Other chapters are devoted to the education and training of Samurai, their weapons, and Bushido as a philosophy and system of ethics. A short but powerful book, Bushido the Soul of Japan is considered essential reading for military historians and students of strategy.

Inazo Nitobe's Bushido the Soul of Japan is a classic work on a warrior culture. Nitobe examines the moral and ethical qualities which make a Samurai -- such as rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty and self-control. Other chapters are devoted to the education and training of Samurai, their weapons and Bushido as a philosophy and system of ethics. A short but powerful book, Bushido the Soul of Japan is considered essential reading for military historians and students of strategy.