Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe (Penguin Great Ideas)

Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe (Penguin Great Ideas)'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding 'the soul of Japan'.

Stunningly illustrated throughout by acclaimed artist George Butler

the turns-I haven't felt all this so intensely since The Shining' - Stephen Graham Jones 'Universally horrifying and viscerally intimate

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And - most importantly - how do we get it back

'Fantastic' The Sunday Times 'Marvellous

The book is divided into four chapters

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