´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 ѕelection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.