The Samurai Way
Inazo Nitobé, "The Samurai Way"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1604593725, 1515436187 | EPUB | pages: 140 | 0.2 mb
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1604593725, 1515436187 | EPUB | pages: 140 | 0.2 mb
Collected here in one edition are two of the most important books on the Samurai Way, Bushido: The Soul of Japan and The Book of Five Rings. Bushido: Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-up specimen of an antique virtue preserved in the herbarium of our history. It is still a living object of power and beauty among us. The Book of Five Rings: There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confucius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healing as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.