Fun fact: the academic consensus is that Japanese in the 1890s basically read about *British* chivalry values from Victorian era fanfic stories about knights, and decided to translate that social paradigm into Japanese and then artificially retconned their history off of it.
Replying to @morris_que14
also bushido is a myth and half of those guys were conscripts who didnt want to be there and and only did banzai charges cause theyd get shot if they didnt
















