bushido

**manchuria** · Posted On: 10/22/2003 7:18am

hey dudes, just wanted to clarify, there has never been a legitimate art called bushido has there? i was pretty sure it was "the way of the warrior" and a blanket name for all JMA and that no1 had ever assigned it to a single style?

**Ronin** · Posted On: 10/22/2003 7:40am

No ART can call itself "bushido"
Bushido= bushi ( warrior) + do (way)
At the most an art MAY be called Bujutsu, but even that is incorrect as bujutsu means "martial technique", but, the term is used to refer to the classical MA of Japan ( jujutsu, kenjutsu, kyujutsu, etc)
Hope that helped :D

**manchuria** · Posted On: 10/22/2003 7:41am

it did thx dude, i was pretty sure, just wanted to be certain thassal

**Jenfucius** · Posted On: 10/22/2003 2:57pm

i think there's a "bushido club" at my school. it looks like they teach some kind of crappy aikido derivative.

**Ice Queen** · Posted On: 10/24/2003 2:58am

Isn't the bushido the code of the samurai? Or some book called something like that? I'm asking, cuz I have a bad headache and don't remember ****. And I'm in too much pain to go through ALL my damn books.

**Vapour** · Posted On: 10/24/2003 3:53am

Western equivelant of bushido is chivalry, or the way of knight. There is no martial arts called chivalry.

**Ice Queen** · Posted On: 10/26/2003 1:09pm

Isn't much chivary in the world these days, period. Anyone recommend a good book to read up on bushido ?

**Gezere** · Posted On: 10/26/2003 2:00pm

Bushido was just a universal code of ethics to try and keep the bushi class in line.

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students...do/bindex.html

Like any code of ethics it should be taken with a grain of salt.