Bushidō In Historical Japan
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Rokugani Bushidō is quite
different from anything that existed historically in Japan. While historical
samurai had deeply held convictions that they lived
and died for, there is no
single text that defined Bushidō for all samurai.
Outside of Japan, cultural understanding of Bushidō
comes in large part from
retrospective efforts to
understand the past. Inazo Nitobe’s Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900)
is one text written by a
Japanese scholar to explain Bushidō to English
speakers. Nitobe offers “Military-Knight-Ways” as
a translation of Bushidō,
and expands it to the “‘Precepts of Knighthood,’
the noblesse oblige of the
warrior class.”
Much as the code of chivalry in Europe has been romanticized to fit
with the values of later writers, Nitobe’s account of Bushidō is a product of its own time (after the era
of samurai), and it can help readers understand
the history of Western
views on Bushidō.
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Core Rulebook · Chapter 7: The Game Master › Using Social Attributes · p. 300
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Rokugani Bushidō is quite
different from anything that existed historically in Japan. While historical
samurai had deeply held convictions that they lived
and died for, there is no
single text that defined Bushidō for all samurai.
Outside of Japan, cultural understanding of Bushidō
comes in large part from
retrospective efforts to
understand the past. Inazo Nitobe’s Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900)
is one text written by a
Japanese scholar to explain Bushidō to English
speakers. Nitobe offers “Military-Knight-Ways” as
a translation of Bushidō,
and expands it to the “‘Precepts of Knighthood,’
the noblesse oblige of the
warrior class.”
Much as the code of chivalry in Europe has been romanticized to fit
with the values of later writers, Nitobe’s account of Bushidō is a product of its own time (after the era
of samurai), and it can help readers understand
the history of Western
views on Bushidō.