About the Author Thomas Cleary is the translator of Opening the Dragon Gate (Tuttle, 1996) and The Story of Chinese Zen (Tuttle, 1995), as well as The Art of War, The Book of Five Rings, The Japanese Art of War, and dozens of other titles on Martial Artsl Philosophysophy, Buddhism, Taoism, religion, Philosophysophy, and motivation. He lives in Oakland, California. Annotation The Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese way of the warrior. bushido has played a major role in shaping the behavior of modern Japanese government, corporations, society, and individuals, as well as in shaping the modern Martial Artsl arts within Japan and internationally. The Japanese original of this book has been one of the primary sources on the tenets of Bushido, a way of thought that remains fascinating to the modern world, East and West.From The PublisherThe Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules andexpectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese way of the warrior. bushido has played a majorrole in shaping the behavior of modern Japanese government, corporations, society, andindividuals, as well as in shaping the modern Martial Artsl arts within Japan and internationally.The Japanese original of this book has been one of the primary sources on the tenets of Bushido,a way of thought that remains fascinating to the modern world, East and West.
Annotation The Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese way of the warrior. bushido has played a major role in shaping the behavior of modern Japanese government, corporations, society, and individuals, as well as in shaping the modern Martial Artsl arts within Japan and internationally. The Japanese original of this book has been one of the primary sources on the tenets of Bushido, a way of thought that remains fascinating to the modern world, East and West.From The PublisherThe Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules andexpectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese way of the warrior. bushido has played a majorrole in shaping the behavior of modern Japanese government, corporations, society, andindividuals, as well as in shaping the modern Martial Artsl arts within Japan and internationally.The Japanese original of this book has been one of the primary sources on the tenets of Bushido,a way of thought that remains fascinating to the modern world, East and West.
From The PublisherThe Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules andexpectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese way of the warrior. bushido has played a majorrole in shaping the behavior of modern Japanese government, corporations, society, andindividuals, as well as in shaping the modern Martial Artsl arts within Japan and internationally.The Japanese original of this book has been one of the primary sources on the tenets of Bushido,a way of thought that remains fascinating to the modern world, East and West.