[USED] Reprint of Inazo Nitobe's Japanese Bushido with Bushido and Tokimune Hojo

I am offering for sale a reprint of "Nitobe Inazo: Bushido in Japanese Literature."

I have read many different versions of Nitobe Inazo's "Bushido," from apres-guerre types, to war profiteers, closeted leftists, self-proclaimed patriots, and even America-boosting nerds... but ultimately, it was when I was a working student, during the chaotic post-war period, that I obtained information through connections that the victorious nations, particularly GHQ, were up to something. Late at night, I sorted through the books, children's books, art books, and even picture books I had collected from here and there, and hid them deep within the storehouse of our old family home, as well as in the structural gaps of the town hall and the old middle school building. They never saw the light of day again, but my maternal grandfather, who passed away in a dashing manner after entrusting his copy to my father, his son-in-law, had left behind a copy of "Bushido in Japanese Literature." It was among the GHQ-banned books left behind by my mother, who taught me "Bushido in Japanese Literature" during a visit home for the first time in a long time, and it turned out to be the easiest book to understand.

After traveling around the country and traveling aboard ships owned by a trading company founded by a distant uncle, I engaged in business dealings and personal interactions with people in the ports of Hawaii, Oahu, Palau, and Taipei. While working as a government official in a certain ministry, I came across and read a truly impressive book: "Bushido: Annotation to Noblesse Oblige" by Lee Teng-hui, who became the first President of the Republic of China to be democratically elected and then President of Taiwan. Looking back, this is the only book I ever gave my mother, and it shows (though now she's treated like a grand elder in our household and has unlimited access to my books).

When Nitobe Inazo's "Bushido: The Soul of Japan" was published in the United States in 1900 (Meiji 33), Theodore Roosevelt, who would become the 26th President the following year, was so impressed that he reportedly bought dozens of copies and gave them away (as gifts) to his acquaintances.

Other people recognized as great men include his own Dr. Einstein, Madame Curie in the pro-Japanese country of Holland, and the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, whose smiling face still lingers in my memory...It is said that each of them was impressed by the samurai class's moral ethics, loyalty to their lord, courtesy, honor, frugality, and thrift.