Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of bushido.
Any and all forms of budō afford budōka the training and character traits of bushidō to live an exemplary and extraordinary life.
2022, Masayuki Shimabukuro, Leonard J. Pellman, “Karate-dō no Mokuteki: The Purpose of Karate-dō”, in Karate as the Art of Killing: A Study of Its Deadly Origins, Ideology of Peace, and the Techniques of Shitō-Ryū, Berkeley, Calif.: Blue Snake Books, →ISBN, page 242 more examples
Given bushidō’s close ties to warrior training and attendant ideals, it somewhat surprisingly does not contain any discussion of combat exercises or anything of the sort.
2021, Per Faxneld, “Martial Arts Spirituality in Sweden: The Occult Connection”, in Lukas Pokorny, Franz Winter, editors, The Occult Nineteenth Century: Roots, Developments, and Impact on the Modern World (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part II (Occultism in America and Europe), page 231From that point on, the concept of bushidō was developed in popular discourse and most of the texts that historians rely on nowadays to understand the samurai were written in the Tokugawa period and onward. This is problematical, in that the authors of these texts that propounded bushidō discourse tended to romanticise it and the samurai class.
2022, Anna Kretowicz, “Japanese Laws of War”, in Samuel White, editor, The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 2: From Ancient India to East Africa (International Humanitarian Law Series; 64), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 193
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bushidō. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bushid%C5%8D
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