See also:

• BUSHIDO (Japanese for " military-knight-ways ")

BUSHIDO (See also:

• JAPANESE

Japanese for " military-See also:

• KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)
• KNIGHT, DANIEL RIDGWAY (1845– )
• KNIGHT, JOHN BUXTON (1843–1908)

knight-ways ")  , the unwritten See also:

• CODE (Lat. codex)

code of See also:

• LAWS

laws governing the lives of the nobles of See also:

• JAPAN

Japan, See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to the See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• CHIVALRY (O. Fr. chevalerie, from Late Lat. caballerius)

chivalry . Its See also:

• MAXIMS, LEGAL

maxims have been orally handed down, together with a vast See also:

• ACCUMULATION (from Lat. accumulare, to heap up)

accumulation of traditional See also:

• ETIQUETTE

etiquette, the result of centuries of See also:

• FEUDALISM
• FEUDALISM (from Late Lat. feodum or feudum, a fee or fiel; see FEE)

feudalism . Its inception is associated with the uprise of feudal institutions under Yoritomo, the first of the Shoguns, See also:

• LATE

late in the 12th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, but See also:

• BUSHIDO (Japanese for " military-knight-ways ")

bushido in an undeveloped See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

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 See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour was so high as to dictate See also:

• SUICIDE (from Lat. sui, of oneself, and cidium, from cued ere, to kill)

suicide where it was offended . See Inazo Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1905); also JAPAN: See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

Army .