The Way of the Samurai — İnazo Nitobe

This luxurious gift edition presents Inazo Nitobe s classic work The Way of the Samurai featuring stencilled page edges and full colour illustrations To many people the word samurai conjures images of menacing masks long blades and elaborate armour However this classic text by Inazo Nitobe reveals the greater depths to samurai culture they were not simply warriors but an aristocratic class who practiced literary and military arts in equal measure Essential to this way of life was the samurai s moral code and the quality of bushido roughly translated as chivalry The Way of the Samurai provides an intriguing exploration of bushido and other valued qualities such as rectitude or justice courage politeness veracity honour loyalty and self control It also explores the Samurai s more violent traditions such as the chilling act of hara kiri or self immolation This mixture of chivalric principles with brutal warfare is fascinating While many aspects of Samurai culture have disappeared its principles still have resonance in modern Japanese society and around the globe Featuring beautiful full colour illustrations this luxurious gold embossed hardback makes a perfect gift ABOUT THE SERIES The Arcturus Luxury Classics series brings together deluxe gift editions of classic works of literature complete with stencilled page edges gold embossed cover designs full colour illustrations and beautiful patterned endpapers Tanıtım Bülteninden