HUMA 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hagakure, Asano Clan, Bushido

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1400
• Professor: Gordon Anderson

Document Summary

Honor: of names, of family, of associated group; of han. Samurai had the right to cut down a commoner, could not forget training or spiritual inheritance, merchants and peasants could not bare swords, sword was considered to embody the spirit of the warrior. The bun (civil) to meld with the bu (military): Medieval bushido + neo-confucianism ethics of tokugawa samurai"s bushido. New stage of the way of the warrior . If they were to remove samurai there would be no legitimacy in which they could stand.