Re: Last Samurai

From: reinierd <reinierd_at_mpTwrFTzb5hzrDBSd935IdgdC56sszECYSngwJMxuHKDPAy5Fruwb6FJx3PD-LhNFnT>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:29:13 -0000

I can't claim any knowledge of "the real" bushido (can anyone? especially the one that was practiced as opposed to written down?), but even a casual scan of a few texts like Hagakure show something with way too much emphasis on "obey your lord" and very little about, say, thinking about what is right or rescuing damsels in distress, or for that matter helping starving peasants. One suspects that it and a lot of other political "thought" was manufactured specifically to keep the Tokugawa regime in power.            

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