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means The ethical code of the Japanese samurai class, prizing loyalty, honor, discipline, and a readiness to die rather than live shamefully.

from From Japanese bushi (warrior) plus dō (way/path), the same dō that gives martial arts like judo and aikido their names. The term and its systematic philosophy were mostly crystallized in writing during the Meiji era and after, notably in Nitobe Inazō's 1900 book Bushido: The Soul of Japan — written largely to explain Japanese values to a Western audience, at a point when the samurai class had already been formally abolished. Warrior codes of conduct existed earlier in practice, but 'bushido' as a codified, capital-letter philosophy is a later distillation and partly a romantic reconstruction of them.