Bushido

Bushido, The behavior of the Japanese’s Culture

Today is common on occident to listen and to read about the Japanese’s culture. As example, there are anime, manga, video games, movies, which are in the marker since a while already. However, how good do we understand them? When we see or read these expressions of the Japanese’s culture, do we really understand what the motivation behind the actions is? For example, do we understand why on the animate movie of Disney “Mulan” the Geisha Sensei of the country, told to Mulan "you will never be able to get the pride of her family", after Mulan didn’t pass the Geisha’s test? Was so important for a family to have a Geisha as a daughter? Also, after the army fond that Mulan was really a woman, why the law said that she should be executed? These are just two example of a single occidental movie with a oriental theme. However, If we start to recall anime by anime, movie by movie, manga by manga, the list of behavior that an occidental person won’t understand will be as big as the number of sand grains on a beach. However, there is a single code that is behind all these behaviors, the name of this code is Bushido.
Bushido can be described in this way “…Bushido, then, is the code of moral principles which the samurai were required or instructed to observe... More frequently it is a code unuttered and unwritten... It was an organic growth of decades and centuries of military career." (Inazo) On this definition Bushido just refer to the samurai life; however, in any expression of the Japanese’s culture the people are able to feel the Bushido behind the action.