The Ways of the Samurai
, by Gaskin, CarolNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781596870802 | 159687080X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/2003
For more than 700 years Japan was dominated by a military caste-the samurai. To the Western mind these fearsome warriors-samurai, the masterless ronin, and the assassin ninja-have always been a source of mystery and wonder, combining the idealism of chivalry with military fanaticism. THE WAYS OF THE SAMURAI digs beneath the myth and reveals a truth even more amazing about the men who practiced a discipline drawn from Zen and Confucian ethics-bushido, the way of the warrior.