Bushido : The Soul of Japan
Nitobe Inazo
Penguin Books
What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well. Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding 'the soul of Japan'.