Samurai Morality in Japan

The important thing about the sort of pagan morality that the samurai evings is that it was hierarchical rather than dual. So a samurai who has disobeyed an order, or who's being caught in a cowardly act, will be demanded to commit ritual suicide instantly and with little preparation. Traditionally, samurai would cut the tops of their fingers off for minor indiscretions and for minor infractions of various rules which are called bishido. And there is a sort of cultivation of the masochism of the flesh, as well as the extremity of externalised violence, which is a Japanese tradition. This essentially affects their attitudes in all areas, aesthetic, literary, poetic, religious, and