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  • noun An ethical code of the samurai that was prevalent in feudal Japan that advocated unquestioning loyalty to the master at all costs and obedience in all deeds, valuing honor above life.

Etymologies

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From Japanese 武士道 (ぶしどう, bushidō).

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  • By virty, December 2, 2009 @ 11: 11 pm afterthought, um & ah ING, reminds me of that gutteral diaphram destroying taj mahal track of which the name totally escapes me and i’m too stuffed to rifle thru the vinyl. early 70’s? real animal and monosyllable like an elephant seal in bushido mode.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Here’s what I did at six o’clock this morning. 2009

  • In modern times the ethics of the bushi have been analysed under the name "bushido"

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • In designing the Scouting program, Baden-Powell drew ideas from the Japanese warrior's code or "[[bushido]]", on the Victorian "ragged schools" movement, and the educational methods of Montessori.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • In designing the Scouting program, Baden-Powell drew ideas from the Japanese warrior's code or "[[bushido]]", on the Victorian "ragged schools" movement, and the educational methods of Montessori.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • In designing the Scouting program, Baden-Powell drew ideas from the Japanese warrior's code or "bushido", on the Victorian "ragged schools" movement, and the educational methods of Montessori.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Y country: of the kind or style prevalent in X. "abukumalite ansu bon-seki aburachan seed arakawaite bonze aburagiri arigato, interj. bu adsuki bean Arita ware Bugaku adzuki bean Aucuba aikido awabi Bunraku aikuchi ayu buraku Aino bai-u, adj. burakumin Ainu baka bomb bushido akamatsu bancha (tea) Butsu akamushi mite bandaite butsudan akebi banzai bu Akebia banzai, adj. chadai akeki Banzai, interj. chanoyu akenobeite banzai attack chashitshu Akita baren Chiba, adj.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1 1982

  • 'bushido' there's a whole lot of cowardly, dishonorable thought in your suggestion.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories lifegirl 2010

  • 'bushido' there's a whole lot of cowardly, dishonorable thought in your suggestion.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories lifegirl 2010

  • Cherry Blossoms, opressed serfs and Major Domo Havock instructing the younger bushido warriors.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Havsy’s cake shoppe. 2010

  • If traditional arts included bushido and ninjas, perhaps, but for the ones listed I hear they are worth seeing just once.

    Sports Day firmly embedded in Japanese culture: part 1 of 2 2010

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