Abstract
The ministry of education so admired it in the 1930s that it made a reading of Bushido a part of its notorious moral training program. To anyone reading the pages of Bushido at the end of the twentieth century, Nitobe's apparent ability to hold a cosmopolitan humanism at the personal level together with obedience to a ruthless colonial government appears at best like inconsistency. Little of the fiery criticism of imperialism reflected in the writings of the early Uchimura or other pacifist contemporaries like Abe Isoo, Kotoku Shusui, or Kinoshita Naoe appears in its pages. Little of the turmoil which surrounded the subject at the time appears on the pages of Bushido. In the course of his exposition, Nitobe quotes from, or refers to, over a hundred different American, Chinese, European and Japanese authorities, ancient and modern, in itself a considerable tour de force. Bushido enjoyed a high reputation among liberal missionaries in Japan.
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