How has Japan’s Samurai heritage influenced modern Japanese thinking and behaviour
Japan’s Samurai heritage has influenced modern Japanese thinking and behaviour through Samurai. In modern day Japan we can still see many examples of Samurai behaviour through the bushido code and the eight virtues of a Samurai. The Samurai changed Japan’s history by introducing Feudal Japan. This was a period in time were Samurai were in power. The Samurai’s values of the Bushido code were what made the Samurai powerful and seen great to the rest of Japan. In the mid-19th century Bushido was being coming apart of everyday life in Japan which all of the society adapted to changing the way Japanese think and behave.
The definition Samurai is know as ‘the …show more content…
The Bushido code was known as ‘the way of the warrior’. It was a code that was of moral principles to the Samurai, which they followed and observed. The code was based around the eight virtues of the Samurai. The eight virtues of a Samurai are rectitude or justice, courage, benevolence or mercy, politeness, honesty and sincerity, honour, loyalty, character and self-control. Rectitude or Justice is the strongest virtue of Bushido. It is one’s power to decide upon a course of behaviour without questioning if it is the right time to die or not. Courage is only worthy of a Samurai if it is exercised in the right way and if it is worthy of goodness. The bushido code varies between courage and bravery. Benevolence or Mercy includes traits as love, magnanimity, affection for others, sympathy and pity. Benevolence is the highest attribute of the human soul and the highest requirement of a ruler on men. Potlines links to the virtue of Benevolence, it should be expressed like Benevolence but for the feelings of others. Honesty and Sincerity according to true Samurai is believing that “men must grudge money, for riches hinder wisdom” as Samurai disdained money. The code encouraged thrift as for the exercise of abstinence. The Bushido code made Samurai fear disgrace and if any Samurai took slight offence at provocation then they were considered short tempered. A sense of honor was characterized by the Samurai. Loyalty to a superior during the feudal period was the most distinctive virtue. True men were those who remained loyal to those who owned money. Charter and self-control was one of the hardest virtues to follow. The first objective of a Samurai was to build up character. The Bushido code teaches men to behave according to an absolute moral standard and explains how a man should know the difference between good and bad. Today these Samurai virtues and the Bushido code could not be more
Japan’s Samurai heritage has influenced modern Japanese thinking and behaviour through Samurai. In modern day Japan we can still see many examples of Samurai behaviour through the bushido code and the eight virtues of a Samurai. The Samurai changed Japan’s history by introducing Feudal Japan. This was a period in time were Samurai were in power. The Samurai’s values of the Bushido code were what made the Samurai powerful and seen great to the rest of Japan. In the mid-19th century Bushido was being coming apart of everyday life in Japan which all of the society adapted to changing the way Japanese think and behave.
The definition Samurai is know as ‘the …show more content…
The Bushido code was known as ‘the way of the warrior’. It was a code that was of moral principles to the Samurai, which they followed and observed. The code was based around the eight virtues of the Samurai. The eight virtues of a Samurai are rectitude or justice, courage, benevolence or mercy, politeness, honesty and sincerity, honour, loyalty, character and self-control. Rectitude or Justice is the strongest virtue of Bushido. It is one’s power to decide upon a course of behaviour without questioning if it is the right time to die or not. Courage is only worthy of a Samurai if it is exercised in the right way and if it is worthy of goodness. The bushido code varies between courage and bravery. Benevolence or Mercy includes traits as love, magnanimity, affection for others, sympathy and pity. Benevolence is the highest attribute of the human soul and the highest requirement of a ruler on men. Potlines links to the virtue of Benevolence, it should be expressed like Benevolence but for the feelings of others. Honesty and Sincerity according to true Samurai is believing that “men must grudge money, for riches hinder wisdom” as Samurai disdained money. The code encouraged thrift as for the exercise of abstinence. The Bushido code made Samurai fear disgrace and if any Samurai took slight offence at provocation then they were considered short tempered. A sense of honor was characterized by the Samurai. Loyalty to a superior during the feudal period was the most distinctive virtue. True men were those who remained loyal to those who owned money. Charter and self-control was one of the hardest virtues to follow. The first objective of a Samurai was to build up character. The Bushido code teaches men to behave according to an absolute moral standard and explains how a man should know the difference between good and bad. Today these Samurai virtues and the Bushido code could not be more