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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Shinto(as one of three sources influencing Bushidō)
Japan's indigenous religion centered on nature spirits, ancestor worship, and the divine status of the Japanese emperor.
Syncretic(describing how Bushidō drew from multiple religions)
Blending or combining different beliefs, traditions, or practices from multiple sources into one system.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.