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    Bushidō philosophy's true origins were obscured — Carmelics
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    • 1.Bushidō claimed to be a philosophy of the Japanese people harking back to ancient times
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    • 2.Bushidō's actual parentage is clearly nineteenth century
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    • 3.Bushidō's hybridity caused its history to be occluded
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    • 1.Traditions can have genuine historical continuity even when systematized or codified later, as Hobsbawm's 'invention of tradition' framework itself acknowledges layered authentic antecedents.
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    • 2.Pre-Meiji samurai texts like Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure (1716) and Daidōji Yūzan's Budō Shoshinshū demonstrate operative warrior ethics predating nineteenth-century formalization.
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    • 3.The 'obscuring' claim conflates deliberate deception with the normal hermeneutic process by which traditions retrospectively identify their own genealogies, a distinction Gadamer's historical consciousness makes philosophically essential.
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    • 1.Nitobe Inazo explicitly acknowledged Bushidō's syncretic sources—Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto—in Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1900), undermining the claim that origins were actively concealed.
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    • 2.A philosophy whose author transparently documents its hybrid intellectual debts cannot coherently be described as having 'occluded' parentage without conflating popular reception with authorial intent.
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    Bushidō philosophy is, therefore, a true hybrid of Confucian, Buddhist, Shintō, and European parentage. Ideologically it claimed to have been a philosophy of the Japanese people harking back to ancient times but its parentage is clearly nineteenth century. Because of its hybridity, however, its history was occluded and its tenets were couched in terms deemed traditional but often given nuances they had not had previously. Hence, bushidō was almost impervious to philosophical critique, especially
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