Bushido
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...pain. For the warrior, commerce and the profit motive were to be scorned. The code was first formulated in the Kamakura period (1185 1333) and put into writing in the 16th cent.; the term itself, however, did not come into use until the...