Bushido, the Soul of Japan
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Prefaces
8:22 -
Bushido as an Ethical System
10:43 -
Sources of Bushido
13:15 -
Rectitude or Justice
6:41 -
Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing
9:22 -
Benevolence, the Feeling of Distress
15:02 -
Politeness
13:25 -
Veracity or Truthfulness
12:43 -
Honor
11:29 -
The Duty of Loyalty
14:01 -
Education and Training of a Samurai
10:18 -
Self-Control
9:30 -
The Institutions of Suicide and Redress
24:38 -
The Sword, the Soul of the Samurai
8:11 -
The Training and Position of Woman
21:50 -
The Influence of Bushido
10:44 -
Is Bushido Still Alive?
15:47 -
The Future of Bushido
13:58
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A question about moral education prompts Inazo Nitobe to examine the customs he learned while Japanese feudal life still shaped his childhood. In Bushido, the Soul of Japan, he explains the ethical outlook associated with the samurai and considers how its influence continued after the institutions that supported it had changed. His account draws on personal recollection and uses European history and literature to make Japanese ideas clearer to foreign readers.
The discussion moves from justice, courage and loyalty to the education of a warrior. Nitobe describes a curriculum that joins physical skills with calligraphy, ethics, literature and history, treating character as more important than the accumulation of knowledge. His comments on money reveal another tension: practical needs existed alongside a code that distrusted financial ambition. Readers interested in Japanese philosophy can use these essays to study one author's explanation of how inherited values shaped everyday conduct.
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