Bushido is the code of moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to observe.
It was founded not on the creation of one brain, however able, or o.
More frequently it is a code unuttered and unwritten, possessing all the more the powerful sanction of veritable deed, and of a law written on the fleshly tablets of the heart.
It is not a written code; at best it consists of a few maxims handed down from mouth to mouth or coming from the pen of some well-known warrior or savant.
Bushido is the code of moral principles which the knights were required or instructed to observe