Meaning of bushido | Babel Free

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An ethical code of the samurai that was prevalent in feudal Japan that advocated unquestioning loyalty to the master at all costs and obedience in all deeds, valuing honor above life.

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“Given bushidō’s close ties to warrior training and attendant ideals, it somewhat surprisingly does not contain any discussion of combat exercises or anything of the sort.”

“Any and all forms of budō afford budōka the training and character traits of bushidō to live an exemplary and extraordinary life.”

“From that point on, the concept of bushidō was developed in popular discourse and most of the texts that historians rely on nowadays to understand the samurai were written in the Tokugawa period and onward. This is problematical, in that the authors of these texts that propounded bushidō discourse tended to romanticise it and the samurai class.”

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