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Samurai's code of honor
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bushido
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1898, from Japanese, said to mean literally "military-knight way."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bushido or BushidÅ is the code of honour of the samurai of feudal Japan. Bushido may also refer to:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bushido \Bu"shi`do`\ (b[=oo]"sh[=e]`d[=o]`), n. [Jap. bu military + shi knight + d[=o] way, doctrine, principle.] The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan. Unformulated, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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.
Usage examples of bushido.
In Bushido, the life of one lone samurai mattered less than the capture of a murderer and traitor.
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The lesson was one of the many aspects of Bushido that his father had taught him in childhood, indoctrinating him with this philosophy, which had evolved over the course of six hundred years.
He spent his excess time and energy on the one avenue of Bushido open to him: martial arts training for a war that might not come in his lifetime.
Yet Bushido demanded from a samurai unstinting, uncomplaining service to his lord.
Still, he must walk it as he tried to fulfill both promises to his father-exemplifying Bushido and performing a heroic deed-virtually alone, in the face of obstacles that now included a new and powerful enemy.
Sano said, feeling the horror that this transgression of Bushido always inspired in him.
While his own adherence to Bushido seemed likely to ruin him, the chamberlain, by defying its tenets, had risen to a position of unchallenged power.
Having failed in his duty to his father and his lord, Sano knew that Bushido demanded he die, allowing his disgrace to perish with him.
Although Bushido forbade Sano to contradict his lord, he had to amend this bizarre distortion of the facts.
As men of the daimyo clans studied art and music with their imperial in-laws, so might nobles practice Bushido under the direction of samurai relatives.
Knights of the Bushido of the Order of the Rising Sun, they never executed people at sundown, only at sunrise.
I have executed Chamberlain Yanagisawa, and committed seppuku not only to avoid capture and disgrace, but to pledge my eternal loyalty to your person, and to honor a promise to my father that I make of myself the living embodiment of Bushido.
A few years ago the growing shishi movement had formed themselves into small, secret cells, committing themselves to rediscover bushido-- ancient samurai practices of self-discipline, duty, honor, death, swordsmanship and other warlike pursuits, arts long since lost--except for a few Sensei who had kept bushido alive.
What about all the minute aspects of Japanese life that set us apart from everyone else: the complexity of the tea ceremony, the arts of ukiyo-e, ikebana, haiku, the concepts of honor, filial duty, bushido, giri.