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- Language
- English
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- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN
- 9780241472439
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Bushido The Samurai Code of Japan
2019 • C. E. Tuttle
English
Bushido: Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
2004 • Dover Publications
English
Bushido Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan
2012 • Courier Corporation
English
The Code of the Samurai
2013 • Chartwell Books
English
Bushido, Preceptos de Honor de los Samurais (Spanish Edition)
2013 • Quadrata
Spanish
Other editions
Bushido The Samurai Code of Japan
2019 • C. E. Tuttle
English
Bushido: Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
2004 • Dover Publications
English
Bushido Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan
2012 • Courier Corporation
English
The Code of the Samurai
2013 • Chartwell Books
English
Bushido, Preceptos de Honor de los Samurais (Spanish Edition)
2013 • Quadrata
Spanish
いま、拠って立つべき“日本の精神” 武士道
2005 • PHP研究所
Japanese
Bushidō: Ima, Yotte Tatsubeki Nihon No Seishin = Bushido: The Soul Of Japan
2003 • PHP Editāzu Gurūpu :hatsubaimoto PHP Kenkyūjo
Japanese
BUSHIDO: the Soul of Japan
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido The Soul Of Japan: The Soul Of Japan
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido The Soul of Japan
2014 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2015 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2013 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido The Soul of Japan
1994 • Tuttle Publishing
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2011 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2008 • Wilder Publications
English
Bushido, The Soul Of Japan
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2019 • Independently published
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2013 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan: The Soul of Japan (Dodo Press)
2007 • Dodo Press
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2007 • FQ Classics
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2007 • Cosimo Classics
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2012 • Lulu Press, Incorporated
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2005 • Digireads.com
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2007 • FQ Classics
English
Bushido The Soul Of Japan
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2011 • TREDITION CLASSICS
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2001 • Tuttle Publishing
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2006 • Indypublish.Com
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido The Soul of Japan
2005 • Kessinger Publishing, LLC
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2007 • BiblioBazaar
English
Bushido, The Soul Of Japan
2004 • Indypublish.Com
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2006 • Echo Library
English
Bushido - The Soul of Japan
2006 • Hesperides Press
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2019 • Independently Published
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2007 • Kegan Paul Intl
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2001 • Icg Muse Inc
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, The Soul of Japan
1908 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido - The Soul of Japan
2008 • Hesperides Press
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2006 • Indypublish.Com
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
1909 • Teibi Publishing Company
English
Evening Amusements; Or, the Beauty of the Heavens Displayed. in Which Several Striking Appearances, to Be Observed on Various Evenings in the Heavens, During the Year 1818, Are Described
2019 • HardPress
English
Bushido The Soul of Japan
2005 • Kessinger Publishing, LLC
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2015 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido The Soul of Japan
2013 • Simon and Schuster
English
Bushido: The Classic Portrait of Samurai Martial Culture
2011 • Tuttle Publishing
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan Illustrated
2014 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
El código del Samurai -Bushido- (Spanish Edition)
2002 • EDICIONES OBELISCO S.L.
Spanish
武士道
1983 • 三笠書房
Japanese
Bushido: Code of the Samurai: The Soul of Japan (Chinese Bound Classics)
2024 • Amber Books
English
Bushido Illustrated The Soul of Japan
2021 • Amber Books Limited
English
Bushido: the Soul of Japan
2013 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido The Soul of Japan
2012 • Vertical Inc
English
Bushido Alma de Jap�n
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Spanish
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2020 • Penguin UK
English
Bushido; The Soul Of Japan. An Exposition Of Japanese Thought
2011 • Kimball Press
English
Bushido (Pensamiento ilustrado) (Spanish Edition)
2024 • Editorial Alma
Spanish
Bushido
2004 • Tuttle Pub
English
El código del samurái. Bushido: El espíritu de Japón
2014 • TIKAL
Spanish
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2016 • Independently Published
English
Bushidō: Gendaigo de yomu saikō no meicho (Japanese Edition)
1989 • Mikasa Shobō
Japanese
Bushido The Soul of Japan (Timeless Classic Books)
2010 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
対訳武士道 An Exposition of Japanese Thought
1998 • 講談社インターナショナル
Japanese
Bushido The Soul of Japan
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: El Camino Del Guerrero (Spanish Edition)
2005 • Editorial Kier
Spanish
Bushido: The Spirit of the Samurai (Shambhala Library)
2005 • Shambhala
English
ビジュアル版 対訳武士道
2004 • Mikasa Shobō
Japanese
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2018 • Franklin Classics
English
Bushido : el código ético del samurai
2014 • Biblok Book Export, S.L.
Spanish
Bushido
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido El Camino Del Guerrero
1996 • Obelisco, Ediciones S.A.
Spanish
Bushido: the soul of Japan : the code of the samurai
2013 • Amber Books
English
El Bushido (Spanish Edition)
2013 • JOSE J. DE OLAÑETA
Spanish
Bushido El Alma de Japon (Spanish Edition)
1656 • Saga Ediciones (2006-11-01)
Spanish
武士道
2008 • Ibcパブリッシング
Japanese
Bushido the Soul of Japan 13th Edition
2018 • Franklin Classics Trade Press
English
Bushido
2009 • The Floating Press
English
Bushido - The Soul of Japan
2007 • Read Books
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2007 • BiblioBazaar
English
Bushido: El espíritu de Japón. Un ensayo clásico sobre la ética del samurái (Spanish Edition)
2010 • Dojo Ediciones
Spanish
Bushido The Soul of Japan (Large Print)
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido : le code du samouraï
2014 • TREDANIEL
French
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan (Classic Thought Series)
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: Die Seele Japans
2010 • Nikol Verlagsges.mbH
German
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido. El Código del Samurái (Spanish Edition)
2006 • Prana
Spanish
Bushido, The Soul Of Japan: With An Exposition Of Japanese Thought
2007 • Kessinger Publishing, LLC
English
Bushido: the Soul of Japan - Author's Edition 1908, Revised and Enlarged : Author's Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 13th EDITION 1908
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2010 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido.
2003 • Angkor Verlag
German
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
1990 • Charles E.Tuttle Co.
Japanese
Bushido: The Soul Of Japan
2008 • NuVision Publications, LLC
English
Bushido: Code of the Samurai (Pocket Edition)
2024 • Amber Books
English
Bushido : Alma Del Japon
2020 • Independently Published
Spanish
Bushido : The Soul of Japan
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan: with 13 full-page colour illustrations from the time of the Samurai.
2017 • Aziloth Books
English
Bushido: Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan
2004 • Dover Publications
English
武士道【洋販ラダーシリーズ】
2007 • Ibcパブリッシング
English
Bushido The Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido Alma de Japon
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Spanish
Bushido. El código ético del samurái y el alma de Japón (Libros de los Malos Tiempos) (Spanish Edition)
2005 • Miraguano Ediciones
Spanish
Bushido : The Soul of Japan
2012 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido
2019 • Independently published
English
Bushido: the Soul of Japan
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2021 • Lulu.com
English
Bushido The Soul Of Japan 13th Edition
2018 • Creative Media Partners, LLC
English
Bushido
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2018 • Franklin Classics Trade Press
English
Bushido : The Soul of Japan
2021 • Independently Published
English
Bushido
2014 • Tuttle Publishing
English
Bushido
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2022 • Legare Street Press
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
2021 • Wyatt North
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2013 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan
2012 • Dover Publications, Incorporated
English
Bushidō. L'anima del Giappone: Versione Completa + Confronto con il pensiero occidentale (Italian Edition)
2021 • Independently published
Italian
Bushido
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: L'Anima del Giappone (Italian Edition)
2020 • Independently published
Italian
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2022 • Legare Street Press
English
El Bushido: El camí del samurai
2017 • Angle Editorial
Spanish
Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
2020 • Eternal Chrysostom LLC
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2015 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2020 • Independently published
English
Bushido
2021 • Independently Published
English
Bushido, The Soul Of Japan: Annotated Edition
2021 • Rey Salomón
Spanish
Bushido
1900 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2019 • Independently Published
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2020 • Independently Published
English
Busido Japon Savas Sanati
2017 • Dergah Yayinlari
Turkish
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2016 • lulu.com
English
Bushido : The Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2021 • Lulu.com
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido
2020 • Independently Published
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe: Bushido the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Code of the Samurai (Hardcover)
2006 • Sweetwater Press
English
Busido: Dusha Iaponii. Kodeks chesti samuraia
2015 • Ast
Russian
Bushido, l'âme du japon
2009 • BUDO
French
Bushido: the Soul of Japan
2010 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (The Way of the Warrior Series)
2002 • Kodansha USA
English
Bushido Large Print
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido The Soul of Japan (the Complete 1905 Text)
2020 • Independently Published
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2018 • Franklin Classics
English
Bushido;The Soul Of Japan
2021 • Gece Kitapligi
English
Bushido: The Japanese Art of War
2005 • Infofount.com
English
Bushido, The Soul Of Japan: With An Exposition Of Japanese Thought
2007 • Kessinger Publishing, LLC
English
Bushido: the Soul of Japan
2017 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2020 • Independently Published
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan; an Exposition of Japanese Thought
2018 • Creative Media Partners, LLC
English
Bushido Alma de Japon
2021 • Independently Published
Spanish
Bushido: the Soul of Japan
2016 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido the Soul of Japan
2013 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Bushido, the Soul of Japan
2018 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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English
Bushido
2015 • CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
English
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2021 • Wyatt North
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2020 • Independently Published
English
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2016 • Lulu Press, Inc.
English
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2019 • Independently Published
English
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2020 • Independently Published
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2019 • Independently Published
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Spanish
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English
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2018 • Franklin Classics
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The book is widely praised for offering a valuable historical perspective on Bushido, the ethical code of the Japanese samurai. Written in 1900 by a Western-educated Japanese author, it serves as a unique time capsule, explaining the foundational values of Japanese culture to a turn-of-the-century Western audience. Reviewers highlight the author's scholarly approach, adeptly comparing Bushido's tenets, such as justice, courage, loyalty, and honor, with Western philosophies and chivalric ideals. Many found this comparative analysis fascinating and insightful, providing a deeper understanding of both Oriental and Occidental thought. The book is also commended for its beautiful presentation, often featuring traditional binding and Japanese artwork, which enhances the reading experience. Despite its age, many readers found its exploration of the Japanese mindset and ethos remarkably relevant for understanding the culture today, making it a thought-provoking read that can lead to a greater appreciation of Japanese heritage.
Conversely, several criticisms emerged regarding the book's style and methodology. Some readers found the highly educated, Victorian-era vernacular to be dated and occasionally dry, making the text dense and challenging to follow. A significant point of contention is the book's approach to history; many reviewers note that it functions more as a "misty-eyed, nostalgic pining for 'the good old days'" rather than a rigorous historical or scientific analysis. Critics frequently pointed out the author's reliance on legendary, literary, or mythological examples to illustrate points, rather than citing documentary evidence or contemporary accounts from living samurai, which were available at the time. This perceived lack of empirical evidence led some to question the veracity of its claims about typical samurai life. Additionally, the author's background in Western literature and philosophy is evident, with a substantial portion of his references drawn from Western sources, leading some to feel the book sacrifices a truly Japanese perspective for Western relatability, and in some cases, even to feel it "doesn't feel Japanese at all." A few readers also expressed disappointment that the book did not provide the deeper, more detailed understanding of Bushido they had anticipated.
In conclusion, this book is best understood as a foundational essay on samurai ethics, offering a unique historical and cultural snapshot from the turn of the 20th century. While it may not serve as a definitive academic treatise on Bushido due to its romanticized tone and reliance on anecdotal evidence, its value lies in its role as a cross-cultural explanation and a window into how Japan presented itself to the West during a period of significant transformation. It is highly recommended for readers interested in the philosophical underpinnings of Japanese culture, those seeking to understand the historical context of its values, or anyone fascinated by comparative studies of Eastern and Western thought. However, readers expecting a detailed, modern historical study of Bushido or those who prefer a more straightforward, less didactic style might find it less appealing and may wish to seek out more contemporary, empirically-driven resources. Ultimately, for those willing to engage with its particular style and historical context, it remains a thought-provoking and insightful read into the "soul of Japan."
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