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Title: Bushido, the Soul of JapanAuthor: Inazo NitobéRelease Date: April 21, 2004 [EBook #12096]Language: English

BUSHIDO

THE SOUL OF JAPAN 

BYINAZO NITOBÉ, A.M., Ph.D.

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Author's Edition, Revised and Enlarged 13th EDITION 1908

DECEMBER, 1904

TO MY BELOVED UNCLE

TOKITOSHI OTA

WHO TAUGHT ME TO REVERE

THE PAST

AND

TO ADMIRE THE DEEDS OF

THE SAMURAI

I DEDICATE

THIS LITTLE BOOK 

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"That wayOver the mountain, which who stands upon,

Is apt to doubt if it be indeed a road;While if he views it from the waste itself,Up goes the line there, plain from base to

 brow, Not vague, mistakable! What's a break or twoSeen from the unbroken desert either side?And then (to bring in fresh philosophy)What if the breaks themselves should proveat last The most consummate of contrivancesTo train a man's eye, teach him what isfaith?"

ROBERT BROWNING,

 _  Bishop  Blougram's  Apology _.

"There are, if I may so say, three powerfulspirits, which have from time to time, movedon the face of the waters, and given a

 predominant impulse to the moral sentimentsand energies of mankind. These are the spiritsof liberty, of religion, and of honor."

 –HALLAM,

 _  Europe in the Middle Ages _.

"Chivalry is itself the poetry of life." –SCHLEGEL,

 _  Philosophy of History _.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE...................................................................................................................................4PREFACE TO THE TENTH AND REVISED EDITION.........................................................5CONTENTS................................................................................................................................6BUSHIDO AS AN ETHICAL SYSTEM...................................................................................7

SOURCES OF BUSHIDO,.........................................................................................................9RECTITUDE OR JUSTICE, ....................................................................................................11COURAGE, THE SPIRIT OF DARING AND BEARING, ....................................................12BENEVOLENCE, THE FEELING OF DISTRESS, ...............................................................14POLITENESS,..........................................................................................................................17VERACITY OR TRUTHFULNESS,.......................................................................................20HONOR, ...................................................................................................................................22THE DUTY OF LOYALTY,....................................................................................................24

EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF A SAMURAI,...............................................................27SELF-CONTROL,....................................................................................................................29THE INSTITUTIONS OF SUICIDE AND REDRESS, ..........................................................31THE SWORD THE SOUL OF THE SAMURAI,....................................................................36THE TRAINING AND POSITION OF WOMAN. .................................................................37THE INFLUENCE OF BUSHIDO...........................................................................................42IS BUSHIDO STILL ALIVE?..................................................................................................44

THE FUTURE OF BUSHIDO, ................................................................................................47

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"The traveler owns the grateful senseOf sweetness near he knows not whence,And, pausing, takes with forehead bare

The benediction of the air."