The Ways of the Samurai
Author | : Carol Gaskin |
Publisher | : iBooks |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780743486651 |
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For more than 700 years Japan was dominated by a military caste-the samurai. To the Western mind these fearsome warriors-samurai, the masterless ronin, and the assassin ninja-have always been a source of mystery and wonder, combining the idealism of chivalry with military fanaticism. THE WAYS OF THE SAMURAI digs beneath the myth and reveals a truth even more amazing about the men who practiced a discipline drawn from Zen and Confucian ethics-bushido, the way of the warrior.