Bushido and the Two Souls of Inazo Nitobe (I)
Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust (Goethe, Faust 1, verse 1112) Two souls, alas! reside within my breast (transl. Bayard Taylor, 1887) ‘Scratch a Japanese of the most advanced ideas, and he will show a samurai.’ (Bushido, p.89). Such is the essence of Inazo Nitobe’s (1862-1933) message in his…