The Bushido Code
The best of the samurai were fiercely loyal to their masters and true to the unwritten code of chivalrous behavior known today as Bushido, usually translated as “Precepts of Knighthood” or “Way of the Warrior”.
The bushido code was typified by eight virtues according to Nitobe Inazō.
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man” -Heraclitus
The Samurai code, Bushido, guided the Japanese warriors in life, battle, and death. It was the unwritten code of principles and morals, and taught obligation and honor. Although the samurai were all but gone at the turn of the 20th century, Bushido remains as a system of pride and valor in Japanese society.
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