Description |
xvii, 366 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-355) and index. |
Summary |
This book explores the reality of warrior behavior versus the idealistic depiction created for an Edwardian audience by the author of Bushido: The Soul of Japan. He reveals the truth of how the samurai really behaved and of what they considered to be a warrior ethos. He replaces the image of the perfect eastern warrior with the much more interesting reality of hardened, bloodstained military leaders with human failings and a complex set of ideas about the world, who engage in ritual, magic and ceremony, who lead their followers in war and peace and who, above all, are fighting a battle between addiction to power and morality. This is the story of bushido, the way of the samurai. |
Subject |
Bushido.
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Conduct of life.
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Martial arts -- Japan -- Philosophy.
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ISBN |
9781786786050 (hardback) |
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