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BUSHIDO (
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Japanese for " military-
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knight-ways ")  , the unwritten
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code of
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laws governing the lives of the nobles of
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Japan,
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equivalent to the
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European
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chivalry . Its
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maxims have been orally handed down, together with a vast
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accumulation of traditional
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etiquette, the result of centuries of
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feudalism . Its inception is associated with the uprise of feudal institutions under Yoritomo, the first of the Shoguns,
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late in the 12th
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century, but
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bushido in an undeveloped
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form existed before then . The samurai or nobles of Japan entertained the highest respect for truth . " A bushi has no second word " was one of their mottoes . And their sense of
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honour was so high as to dictate
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suicide where it was offended . See Inazo Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1905); also JAPAN:
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Army .

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