‘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’.
One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

Easier Ways To Say I Love You
American Sycamore
An Advertisement For Toothpaste
Good To Be Sweet
Elmer and the Lost Treasure
Duck & Penguin Do Not Like Sleepovers
The Happy Pear
Martha, Jac a Sianco
The Bells of Old Tokyo
Washington Black
Room On the Broom
Suffragette Manifestos


