Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Version 2)
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166
1908
English
- Title page, Poetry and quotations, Preface, Preface to the Tenth and Revised Edition
- Bushido as an Ethical System & Sources of Bushido
- Rectitude or Justice & Courage, the Spirit of Daring and Bearing
- Benevolence & 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
- The Influence of Bushido & Is Bushido Still Alive?
- The Future of Bushido
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a study of the way of the samurai. A best-seller in its day, it was read by many influential foreigners, among them US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, as well as Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts.
The author found in Bushido, the Way of the Warrior, the sources of the seven virtues most admired by his people: rectitude, courage, benevolence, politeness, sincerity, honor, and loyalty.
He also delved into the other indigenous traditions of Japan, such as Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism and the moral guidelines handed down over hundreds of years by Japan's samurai and sages. Nitobe sought similarities and contrasts by citing the shapers of European and American thought and civilization going back to the Romans, the Greek, and Biblical times. He found a close resemblance between the samurai ethos of what he called Bushido and the spirit of medieval chivalry and the ethos of ancient Greece, as observed in books such as the Iliad of Homer.
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