Bushido. The Soul of Japan: Inazo Nitobe

`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`.

One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.