What were the ways of bushido?

Question

I mean what did they practice? eg loyalty, honour. i think there were seven or eight. pls help wil be very grateful

Answer 1

http://www.msisshinryu.com/articles/tene...

It's easy to uphold tenets like these during times of peace (Much of the writing of Bushido was done during the Edo period -- the Sengoku was passed and life was fairly peaceful...)

Answer 2

In Japanese tradition, Bushido, is a term which translates "way of the warrior". Many samurai devoted their lives to bushido, a strict code that demanded loyalty and honoru to the death. If a samurai failed to uphold his honour, he could regain it by committing seppuku (ritual suicide).

Bushido is an internally-consistent ethical code. In its purest form, it demands of its practitioners that they look effectively backward at the present from the moment of their own death, as if they were already, in effect, dead. This is particularly true of the earlier forms of Bushido or budo. Of later forms, traditionalists would scoff, "they reason with staying alive kept clearly in mind."

There are seven virtues associated with Bushido:

Gi - Rectitude (Right Decisions)

Yu - Courage

Jin - Benevolence

Rei - Respect

Makoto - Honesty

Meiyo - Honor

Chugi - Loyalty.