Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a book written by author Inazo Nitobe and is a well-known work that explains the Japanese outlook on ethics. This book delves into indigenous traditions such as Buddhism, Shintoism, and Confucianism. Bushido: The Soul of Japan teaches the moral guidelines that have been handed down over centuries by the sages and samurai of Japan.
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a book written by author Inazo Nitobe and is a well-known work that explains the Japanese outlook on ethics. This book d...
Written in 1912 by a leading Japanese academic who was educated in the US, the book introduces the land and the people of Japan, her history, religions and moral ideas with particular attention to U.S - Japanese relations.
Written in 1912 by a leading Japanese academic who was educated in the US, the book introduces the land and the people of Japan, her history, religion...
Nitobe Inazo (1862 - 1933) was a Japanese author, agricultural economist, educator and diplomat during the Meiji period in Japan. Nitobe published many scholarly books, novels and articles for magazines. Bushibo: The Soul of Japan is his most famous work. Published in 1900 this work was one of the first samurai ethics books. Nitobe found in Buchibo the qualities he most admired in his country, those of rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, loyalty and self-control. The book also discusses the values brought down through the centuries by the samurai and sages of Japan....
Nitobe Inazo (1862 - 1933) was a Japanese author, agricultural economist, educator and diplomat during the Meiji period in Japan. Nitobe published man...
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; but as those far-off stars which once were and are not, still continue to shed their rays upon us, so the...
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 p...
Bushido, The Soul of Japan is, along with the classic text Hagakure by Tsunetomo Yamamoto, 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. It may well have shaped Baden-Powell's ideas on the Boy Scout movement he founded. As Japan underwent deep transformations of its traditional lifestyle while forging into 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...
Bushido, The Soul of Japan is, along with the classic text Hagakure by Tsunetomo Yamamoto, a study of the way of the samurai. A best-seller in its day...
This volume collects together essays and lectures given by the author from 1922-1927 to a variety of international audiences. Together they illuminate essential aspects of the Japanese mentality and way of life, particularly in social, religious and linguistic aspects.
This volume collects together essays and lectures given by the author from 1922-1927 to a variety of international audiences. Together they illuminate...
