Inadze Nitobe was born into a famous samurai family in Marioka Prefecture, but despite this he was always close to Western culture. “I have begun to write an article on Bushido, in which I want to show that these Precepts of Chivalry reveal the essence of the Japanese character and contain the key to understanding the moral spirit of the Japanese,” writes Inaze Nitobe to William Griffis, the author of many books on Japan. With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the expanded edition of the book became a bestseller and gave Nitobe the status of a “publicist speaking on behalf of Japan” — a cultural intermediary between Japan and the West. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.