Full name: Bushido: The Soul of Japan

Author: Inazo Nitobe Year: 1900 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Free books, History, Classic Cultures: Japan, Asia Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com Project Gutenberg LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781490318547 1490318542

"About ten years ago, while spending a few days under the hospitable roof of the distinguished Belgian jurist, the lamented M. de Laveleye, our conversation turned, during one of our rambles, to the subject of religion. "Do you mean to say," asked the venerable professor, "that you have no religious instruction in your schools?" On my replying in the negative he suddenly halted in astonishment, and in a voice which I shall not easily forget, he repeated "No religion! How do you impart moral education?" The question stunned me at the time. I could give no ready answer, for the moral precepts I learned in my childhood days,were not given in schools; and not until I began to analyze the different elements that formed my notions of right and wrong, did I find that it was Bushido that breathed them into my nostrils. "The direct inception of this little book is due to the frequent queries put by my wife as to the reasons why such and such ideas and customs prevail in Japan." - Inazo Nitobe Similar books: Secrets of the Samurai by Oscar Ratti Way of the Samurai by Yukio Mishima The Life-Giving Sword by Yagyu Munenori In the Realm of a Dying Emperor by Norma Field Musashi's Book of Five Rings by Stephen F. Kaufman Memories of Silk and Straw by Junichi Saga Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr Musui's Story by Katsu Kokichi Japan by Patrick Smith The Enigma of Japanese Power by K. G. van Wolferen Japanese Culture by H. Paul Varley The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The Republic by Plato The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn The Rebel by Albert Camus Letters from a Stoic by Seneca Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes