Posted calligraphy engrains the warrior code of Bushido and expounds the philosophical roots of kendo. |
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We understand the spirit of Bushido better than anyone. Or was that Bullshido? |
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Having indoctrinated the younger generations into Bushido, the Meiji elite found themselves faced with a people who clamored for war, and regarded diplomacy as a weakness. |
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It's set in 1865, the year regarded as the last hurrah for bushido, the samurai code. |
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The notion that the samurai's bushido represents a moral or social principle to live by is more than dubious. |
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The military version of bushido was seen as a distortion of samurai ethics by some of the upper class who resented the commoner military. |
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As well as fighting, he immersed himself in the samurai's code of bushido, also known as the way of the warrior. |
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Hara kiri developed as an integral part of the code of bushido and the discipline of the samurai warrior class. |
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