Samurai Rules

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A 19th century training text used by martial arts school in Japan to teach the bushi (samurai) class has been deciphered. Bugei no jo, or "Introduction to Martial Arts" is dated to the 15th year of Tenpo (1844) and contains 12 rules that samurais were expected to follow, including:

Do not leave the path of honor
Do not commit shameful deeds
Do not let the school's teachings leak out
Do not compete
Do not tell bad things about other schools

Read more about the samurai text in this intriguing article by Owen Jarus over at LiveScience.

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Not amusing. The guy was abusing the poor dog, who has no way to defend itself. Maybe it's not as violent as kicking the dog, but it went on & on, and the dog was obviously miserable.

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He did sound very harsh to the dog. I'm guessing it's a game they play, since the other people in the room were smiling and laughing, but it would have been nice if the guy had approached the dog after yelling at it and given the dog a hug or a pat or shown it some sort of affection. Just my take on it.

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