Bushido
Subject in History
Bushido has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
Holland says Bushido was appropriated and perverted by the Japanese military in the early 20th century, then banned by the American occupation.
“it's appropriated by the Japanese military and perverted to their own uses. It takes Japan to some really very dark places”
The Rest Is History: 658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1) (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 25:26
Holland argues that Bushido was largely a modern, post-Meiji invention fusing Japanese traditions with the English gentleman ideal and European chivalry.
“Far from drawing on a moral code that reached back to the Middle Ages, Bushido was pretty much a modern invention. a post-Meiji restoration invention”
The Rest Is History: 658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1) (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 22:43
Podcasts
- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
Episodes
658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1)The Rest Is History · Apr 5, 2026 · 1 h 3 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the origins of Japan's samurai, from the Tokugawa shogunate and the Bushido myth back to the 10th-century warlord Taira no Masakado.