| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - While the Hagakure emphasized loyalty, courage, and duty as the other few Tokugawa works that explicitly mention bushido did, mainline Confucian thinkers disagreed with the meaning and application of these values, especially the idea of a reckless death or ritual suicide (seppuku). [63] Seppuku became a last resort for Japanese warriors who knew that the alternative was to be captured, tortured, a
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