Bushido Illustrated
The Soul of Japan
$71.99
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
14 September 2021
Summary
“Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than cherry blossom” are the opening words to Inazo Nitobe’s Bushido: The Soul of Japan. It was 1900 and Inazo, a Japanese academic living in the USA, had been prompted to write the book after an American professor had wondered how the Japanese imparted moral education on their children if schools didn’t offer any religious instruction. The answer, Inazo realised, was through Bushido.
Bushido is the chivalric code …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781838860899 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1838860894 |
| Author: | Inazo Nitobe |
| Publisher: | Amber Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Amber Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 14 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.20kg |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 196mm x 265mm |
| Series: | Chinese Bound Illustrated |
| Audience Age: | 16-99 |
Inazo Nitobe
Born in 1862, Inazo Nitobe began learning English at the age of nine. He entered Tokyo Imperial University before studying politics and international relations at John Hopkins University. Nitobe taught at Sapporo Agricultural College from 1891 to 1897, before moving to the USA, where Bushido: The Soul of Japan was published in 1900. From 1903 to 1919 he held a professorship at Kyoto Imperial University. Following the end of World War I, he attended the Versailles Peace Conference in 1918, then became an under secretary of the League of Nations. He was also the chairman of the Institute of Pacific Relations from 1929 until his death in 1933. Nitobe published many scholarly books as well as books for general readers.
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