Bushido: The Code of the Samurai (Hardcover) **2006 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING **

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of this 2006 hardcover book. Boards black with gold foil lettering on spine. Boards are rigid and warp-free. Spine is flat and square. Head band with light push. Corners are crisp. No previous owner marks (no names, no underlining, no bookplates, etc). No remainder marks. DUST JACKET complete, NOT price-clipped. Front and spine of dust jacket with sunning. Will be protected with an archival book jacket cover. Photos coming! In the meantime, contact us now for pictures of the ACTUAL book you will receive. All of our books are in-stock and ready to be shipped immediately. Bushido, literally translated "Way of the Warrior," developed as a code and way of life for the Samurai, a class of warriors similar to the medieval knights of Europe. With emphasis on such qualities as purity, refinement, honor, justice, and loyalty, this mixture of Buddhism, Zen, Confucianism, and Shintoism has often been compared to the European concept of chivalry. The code by which these warriors lived was unwritten, but fiercely binding. Bushido is Nitobe's effort to explain this system, its role in society, and its prospects for the future. No tribute to any author and his work is more fitting than that offered in the introduction to this small, but powerful, volume: "No man in Japan has united the precepts and practice of his own Bushido more harmoniously in life and toil, labor and work, craft of hand and of pen, culture of the soil and the soul." Nitobe's Bushido is an ever-inspiring mguide to the higher path of conduct in all aspects of life.…