> * Eurocentric Perspective: Written as an apologia and defense in response to overseas (especially Western) intellectuals asking, "Do people in Japan have morals without religious education?", some view it from the starting point as "self-justification and self-assertion tailored to Western standards," distorting Japan's unique and complex historical reality.
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〓 The essence of the Japanese samurai—originating from the Kanto samurai bands that established the Kamakura shogunate—is that of armed manor lords and bourgeois revolutionaries.