Bushido: The Soul of Japan

Author: Nitobe, Inazo

Japan

Published on 24 September 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Great Ideas' series.

'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.