Bushido Author:Inazo Nitobe Bushido, literally translated Way of the Warrior, developed as a code and way of life for the Samurai, a class of warriors similar to the medieval knights of Europe. — With emphasis on such qualities as purity, refinement, honor, justice, and loyalty, this mixture of Buddhism, Zen, Confucianism, and Shintoism has often been compared to the Europe... more »an concept of chivalry.
The code by whick these warriors lived was unwritten, but fiercely binding. Bushido is Nitobe's effort to explain this system, its role in society, and its prospects for the future.
No tribute to any author and his work is more fitting than that offered in the introduction to this small, but powerful, volume: No man in Japan has united the precepts and practive of his own Bushido more harmoniously in life and toil, labor and work, craft of hand and of pen, culture of the soil and of the soul
Nitobe's Bushido is an ever-inspiring guide to the higher path of conduct in all aspects of life.« less