Bushido The Japanese Art of War Author:Inazo Nitobe For Centuries the code of Bushido has been the guiding force of strength and honor in Japan. With Bushid: The Japanese Art of War you can understand and integrate the code of honor and success in competition into your own life. This audiobook is energizing, informative, and entertaining. Your edge to gaining respect and wisdom ! Bushido: T... more »he Japanese Art of War outlines the fundamentals of Oriental marital training, virtue, and philosophy. It is useful for business, sports, and virtually any competitive situation. This is a great audiobook for anybody interested in ethics / warrior's ethics, Japan, Japanese culture, Oriental culture and philosophy, and particularly the Samurai and Bushido. This is especially helpful for martial artists in understanding the philosophy and culture in their arts. The principles of Bushido can be applied to all challenges and conflicts of life. Bushido is based upon the teachings of Confucius, Mencius, Shintoism and the practical needs of warriors. This audiobook explains the discipline, physical, and moral training of the Japanese warrior and its integration into Japanese culture. It can help you create successful, honorable, and respectable, actions and campaigns. Bushido will increase your comprehension and help you acquire and develop the culture, ethics, and spirituality, of a professional warrior. The complimentary audiobook Gorin No Sho, The Book of 5 Rings (sold separately) is unequaled in learning about and dealing with the infinite details of competition especially in real combat (martial arts or war, individual or group). Martial Strategists, a specialty division of Infofount, are strategy specialists and translate, obtain, and rewrite the most useful versions of classic military and strategy texts available. We have been told our audiobooks are unequaled for entertainment, practical application, and value. This is the only audiobook available of this classic masterwork. It is complete, clear, and enjoyable. It is a quality production recorded in 2005 with music and sound effects. This audiobook has real actors and is performed in a manner that is easy to understand and entertaining. It is a concise and accurate translation with the actors clearly and comprehensively articulating the text. It is not dry and boring as some other versions are. It has some levity in appropriate places. It is unabridged (3 CDs approximately 3 hours) with Sound Effects and Music. Contents include (partial list) Bushido as an Ethical System; Sources of Bushido; Rectitude or Justice; Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing; Benevolence, the Feeling of Distress; Politeness; Veracity or Truthfulness; Honor; The Duty of Loyalty; Education and Training of a Samurai; Self-Control; The Institutions of Suicide and Redress; The Sword, the Soul of the Samurai; The Training and Position of Woman. Bushido is also available discounted as part of the Samurai Pack or Martial Strategist?s Master Strategy Pack. An excerpt from COURAGE, THE SPIRIT OF DARING AND BEARING. Courage was scarcely deemed worthy to be counted among virtues, unless: it was exercised in the cause of Righteousness. In his "Analects "Confucius defines Courage by explaining, as is often his wont what its negative is." Perceiving what is right," he says," and doing it not, argue lack of courage." Put this epigram into; positive statement, and it runs, "Courage is doing what is right." To run all kinds of hazards, to jeopardize one's self, to rush into the jaws of death-these are too often identified with Valor, and in the profession of arms such rashness of conduct-what Shakespeare calls, "valor misbegot" is unjustly applauded; but not so in the Precepts of Knighthood. Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." " To rush into the thick of battle and to be slain in it," says a Prince of Mito, " is easy enough, and the merest churl is equal to the task; but," he continues, " it is true c« less