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Topic Started: Jun 20 2005, 08:35:23 PM (254 Views)
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Fidelity (Chûgi)
- fidelity towards master (lord) and fatherland
- respect towards parents, brothers and sisters
- assiduousness, steadinessPoliteness (reigi)
- respect and love
- modesty and correct etiquette (formality)

Virility
- valour, courage and bravery
- hardness and coolness
- never lose self-control
- patience and endurance
- promptness (always be ready to fight)

Truthfulness/Veracity (Makoto)
- sincerity and straightforwardness
- sense of honour and justice

Simplicity
- simplicity and purity
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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/bushido/bindex.html

INTRODUCTION



Bushido, literally translated "Way of the Warrior," developed in Japan between the Heian and Tokugawa Ages (9th-12th century). It was a code and way of life for Samurai, a class of warriors similar to the medieval knights of Europe. It was influenced by Zen and Confucianism, two different schools of thought of those periods. Bushido is not unlike the chivalry and codes of the European knights. "It puts emphasis on loyalty, self sacrifice, justice, sense of shame, refined manners, purity, modesty, frugality, martial spirit, honor and affection" (Nippon Steel Human Resources Development Co., Ltd. 329).
ORIGINS AND INFLUENCES


Bushido comes out of Buddhism, Zen, Confucianism, and Shintoism. The combination of these schools of thought and religions has formed the code of warrior values known as Bushido.



From Buddhism, Bushido gets its relationship to danger and death. The samurai do not fear death because they believe as Buddhism teaches, after death one will be reincarnated and may live another life here on earth. The samurai are warriors from the time they become samurai until their death; they have no fear of danger. Through Zen, a school of Buddhism one can reach the ultimate "Absolute." Zen meditation teaches one to focus and reach a level of thought words cannot describe. Zen teaches one to "know thyself" and do not to limit yourself. Samurai used this as a tool to drive out fear, unsteadiness and ultimately mistakes. These things could get him killed.



Shintoism, another Japanese doctrine, gives Bushido its loyalty and patriotism. Shintoism includes ancestor-worship which makes the Imperial family the fountain-head of the whole nation. It awards the emperor a god-like reverence. He is the embodiment of Heaven on earth. With such loyalty, the samurai pledge themselves to the emperor and their daimyo or feudal landlords, higher ranking samurai. Shintoism also provides the backbone for patriotism to their country, Japan. They believe the land is not merely there for their needs, "it is the sacred abode to the gods, the spirits of their forefathers . . ." (Nitobe, 14). The land is cared for, protected and nurtured through an intense patriotism.



Confucianism gives Bushido its beliefs in relationships with the human world, their environment and family. Confucianism's stress on the five moral relations between master and servant, father and son, husband and wife, older and younger brother, and friend and friend, are what the samurai follow. However, the samurai disagreed strongly with many of the writings of Confucius. They believed that man should not sit and read books all day, nor shall he write poems all day, for an intellectual specialist was considered to be a machine. Instead, Bushido believes man and the universe were made to be alike in both the spirit and ethics.



Along with these virtues, Bushido also holds justice, benevolence, love, sincerity, honesty, and self-control in utmost respect. Justice is one of the main factors in the code of the samurai. Crooked ways and unjust actions are thought to be lowly and inhumane. Love and benevolence were supreme virtues and princely acts. Samurai followed a specific etiquette in every day life as well as in war. Sincerity and honesty were as valued as their lives. Bushi no ichi-gon, or "the word of a samurai," transcends a pact of complete faithfulness and trust. With such pacts there was no need for a written pledge; it was thought beneath one's dignity. The samurai also needed self-control and stoicism to be fully honored. He showed no sign of pain or joy. He endured all within--no groans, no crying. He held a calmness of behavior and composure of the mind neither of which should be bothered by passion of any kind. He was a true and complete warrior.



These factors which make up Bushido were few and simple. Though simple, Bushido created a way of life that was to nourish a nation through its most troubling times, through civil wars, despair and uncertainty. "The wholesome unsophisticated nature of our warrior ancestors derived ample food for their spirit from a sheaf of commonplace and fragmentary teachings, gleaned as it were on the highways and byways of ancient thought, and, stimulated by the demands of the age formed from these gleanings a new and unique way of life" (Nitobe, 20)
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Sugestion, for future orginization,

each of perhaps the first say, 9 EP samurai picks a crest and Clan name
all after that time must join one of the 9 clans with additonal clans allowable only when each clan has X members, and then, the clan leaders decide to allow a new clan, (3/4 vote)
of these, one picks their best samurai who will create the new clan, and become its Daiymo

for clan emblems pic from those pages WC linked.
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This will give me a reason to buy that book on Samuria I've picked up and put down on every one of my last few visits to the bookstore.
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I would suggest a few things here as we've addressed a few points.

1. The virtues Loop mentions are compatible with the order's list. I would guess that any samurai who was accepted here under one of these virtues or more would easily be accepted in the order. True?

2. I'd agree the clan idea should be held for the moment. It seems that is a matter than could be almost purely internal with consultation with Thy if we raised enough members to warrant this.
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basically or the time being I figure we can just use the concept of hte Imperial clan, that being the first 9 or so, who themselves take up subclans, but for now we will mostly have justa few.
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1. The virtues Loop mentions are compatible with the order's list...
2. I'd agree the clan idea should be held for the moment ... (until) ... we raised enough members...

Yes, to both. The Bushido Code is compatible with the Knightly one. And you may hold off on creating a Chapter of the Order (officially) until the Samurai collectively have an identity as a society/social group (though I could easily see the Samurai applying individually to the Order).
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Actually for group Cohesiveness, I forsee the Samuraii joining as a group. :cupocoffee:
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Actually for group Cohesiveness, I forsee the Samuraii joining as a group. :cupocoffee:

Perfectly acceptable.
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2. I'd agree the clan idea should be held for the moment. It seems that is a matter than could be almost purely internal with consultation with Thy if we raised enough members to warrant this.

I would like to comment further here a bit.
First, I am curious how long the idea might be held.
Beyond that, the "GuRiFuON"-Clan Samurai would be true Gryphons in every respect provided they accepted what The Wachovia Coalition referred to as "True Title", and that the form of application to become a Samurai of the East follows the Knighthood pattern:
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If you wish to join the Order of Gryphons, please do the following:
1) Publicly post that you wish to join the Order of Gryphons, and select a Branch to join if it is your intention to join one.
2) Tell us what attracted you to the Order of Gryphons
3) Tell us about your Virtues, why you would be a good Brother or Sister of the Order. You can find the virtues listed in another pinned topic in this forum.
4) Declare the name of the Nation joining if it differs from your registered name here. It is the custom to hoist the flag of Member Countries as they are received to the Order.

After an Applicant addresses these, he or she must be championed by an already-accepted Member of the Order.
[Granted, even in our own Order, there is some minimal divergence. Some Applications have been by PM. Some Applicants leave off their Applying Nation. You guys get the idea.]

Naturally, you could (and probably will) apply your own style to the above, but as long as these basics were addressed, I would see no reason why an established, honorable, East Pacific society of Samurai could not be added to the Knights as a Chapter in its own right. Were there significant divergence in structure and/or requirements in application though I would see the Samurai as an Affiliated Order. Either way I think that the Samurai will be wonderful!

NOTE: By the way, Gryphon has been adopted as a "loan-word" in Japanese. It is spelled GuRiFuON, as I spelled it above. My Avatar here is the same word but in katakana.
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I'd just encourage us not to get to bogged down in structural stuff. Many NS orgs have killed themselves because they organized themselves to death but never produced anything.

I'd suggest we take these next steps.
1. I'll officially withdrawl from the chapter of The South Pacific and establish a chapter in the order with samurai trappings and an appropriate mon (I have one in mind.) with the nation name Juoi moving to the gryphon's region.

2. We'll make a call in this forum for members with a few basic provisions...

a. outline concept of championing
b. outline values with mention of bushido code as primary but a nod of the hat to the orders code and mention of connection
c. outline goals of the order with any additional commentary from Gryphons

3. As our numbers increase, a Daimyo is chosen

4. The Daimyo works with the chapter heads and branch heads to encourage members to take on 3 or 4 specific projects over the course of time

5. When numbers reach 10 we consider other plans about clans or other rankings


(Of these all, I gather only 4 might be odd. My point is that we make sure the group is active in pursuing it's goal before we build more structures.)
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Looks good. Contact me for the password to the gryphons' region when ready. [Granted, the preparations for your Chapter may take some time...]
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Ha, thank you. Just making sure you had a word on this.
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