Bushi as Pencil Pushing Bureaucrats

Tokugawa Period CPA Examination

Many of us that study martial traditions are cultural victims today of the propaganda efforts to instill the 
“Code of Bushido” as Nitobe’s work “Hagakure” was managed by the Japanese militarist machine before the advent of World War II.

So what was Bushi (warrior) life really like during the middle and late Edo (Tokyo) or Tokugawa (Clan name) period of Japanese history?[1]

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