武士道 第16章 武士道の命脈　目次

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#1 Has Western civilization, in its march through our land, already wiped out every trace of its ancient discipline?　我国にて速やかに進む西洋文明は、既に古来の訓練のあらゆる痕跡を拭い去ったのであろうか（令和８年５月20日　公開）

#2 It were a sad thing if a nation's soul could die so fast.　一国民の魂がこの様に早く死滅してしまうものとすれば、それは悲しむべきことであろう（令和８年５月20日　限定公開）

#3 That were a poor soul that could succumb so easily to extraneous influences.　外来の影響にかくも容易く屈服するは貧弱なる魂である　（令和８年５月20日　限定公開）

#4 The aggregate of psychological elements which constitute a national character is as tenacious as the "irreducible elements of species, of the fins of the fish, of the beak of the bird, of the tooth of the carnivorous animal.　国民性を構成する心理的要素の合成体が粘性を有する　（令和８年５月21日　公開）

#5 " In his recent book, full of shallow asseverations and brilliant generalisations, M. LeBon says:　ルボン氏は浅薄な独断と華美な概括に滿ちている氏の近著に於いて述べた　（令和８年５月22日　限定公開）

#6 "The discoveries due to the intelligence are the common patrimony of humanity; qualities or defects of character constitute the exclusive patrimony of each people: they are the firm rock which the waters must wash day by day for centuries before they can wear away even its external asperities.　民族性は硬い岩の様なもの　　（令和８年５月23日　公開）

#7 These are strong words and would be highly worth pondering over, provided there were qualities and defects of character which constitute the exclusive patrimony of each people.　もし各民族の専有的遺産を構成するという性格の長所短所というものが有るとすれば・・・　　（令和８年５月23日　限定公開）

#8 Schematising theories of this sort had been advanced long before LeBon began to write his book, and they were exploded long ago by Theodor Waitz and Hugh Murray.　ルボンの様な公式的学説は既にテオドル・ヴァイツ及びヒュー・マレーによつて粉砕されたのである（令和８年５月23日　公開）

#9 In studying the various virtues instilled by Bushido, we have drawn upon European sources for comparison and illustrations, and we have seen that no one quality of character was its exclusive patrimony.    武士道にみられる道徳や美徳は、決して日本特有のものではない（令和８年５月24日　公開）

#10 It is true the aggregate of moral qualities presents a quite unique aspect.　道徳的諸特性の合成体がまったく特殊な一形相を呈する（令和８年５月24日　公開）　

#11 It is this aggregate which Emerson names a "compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient."　道徳的な特性の合成体はあらゆる偉大なる力が分子として入り込むところの複合的結果　（令和８年５月24日　限定公開）　

#12 But, instead of making it, as LeBon does, an exclusive patrimony of a race or people, the Concord philosopher calls it "an element which unites the most forcible persons of every country; makes them intelligible and agreeable to each other; and is somewhat so precise that it is at once felt if an individual lack the Masonic sign."     民族を結合させる要素.   （令和８年５月24日　公開）　

#13 The character which Bushido stamped on our nation and on the samurai in particular, cannot be said to form "an irreducible element of species," but nevertheless as to the vitality which it retains there is no doubt.　武士道が我が国民特に武士の上に刻印した性格　 （令和８年５月24日　限定公開）　

#14 Were Bushido a mere physical force, the momentum it has gained in the last seven hundred years could not stop so abruptly.　仮に武士道が単なる物理力であるとしても、過去七百年間にその獲得した運動量は急に停止出来ない　 （令和８年５月24日　限定公開）

#15 Were it transmitted only by heredity, its influence must be immensely widespread.　単に遺伝によって伝えられたとしても、その影響は大きな範囲に及んでいるに違いない　 （令和８年５月24日　限定公開）

#16 Just think, as M. Cheysson, a French economist, has calculated, that, supposing there be three generations in a century, "each of us would have in his veins the blood of at least twenty millions of the people living in the year 1000 A.D."　各人はその血管の中に少くとも西暦一千年に生きてきた二千万人の血液を持つ　M. Cheysson　 （令和８年５月25日　公開）

#17  The merest peasant that grubs the soil, "bowed by the weight of centuries," has in his veins the blood of ages, and is thus brother to us as much as "to the ox."　土を耕す貧農はその血管の中に数時代の血液を持っている　　 （令和８年５月25日　限定公開）

#18  An unconscious and irresistible power, Bushido has been moving the nation and individuals.　武士道は一つの無意識かつ抵抗し難き力として、国民及び個人を動かして来た　 （令和８年５月25日　限定公開）

#19  It was an honest confession of the race when Yoshida Shōin, one of the most brilliant pioneers of Modern Japan, wrote on the eve of his execution the following stanza:    吉田松陰が刑に就く前夜に詠じた次の歌は、日本民族の偽らざる告白であった　 （令和８年５月26日　限定公開）

#20 "Full well I knew this course must end in death;
　 It was Yamato spirit urged me on     To dare whate'er betide."
    かくすればかくなるものと知りながら　やむにやまれぬ大和魂　 （令和８年５月26日　公開）

#21 Unformulated, Bushido was and still is the animating spirit, the motor force of our country. 　冒頭の unformulated が分詞構文であることがお分かりだろうか　 （令和８年５月30日　公開）

#22 Mr. Ransome says that "there are three distinct Japans in existence side by side today, — the old, which has not wholly died out; the new, hardly yet born except in spirit; and the transition, passing now through its most critical throes.　今日三つの別々の日本が相並んで存在している ・旧日本　・新日本　・過度的日本　 （令和８年５月31日　公開）

#23 " While this is very true in most respects, and particularly as regards tangible and concrete institutions, the statement, as applied to fundamental ethical notions, requires some modification; for Bushido, the maker and product of Old Japan, is still the guiding principle of the transition and will prove the formative force of the new era. 　武士道は現になお過渡的日本の指導原理であり、そしてまた新時代の形成力である　 （令和８年５月31日　公開）

#24 The great statesmen who steered the ship of our state through the hurricane of the Restoration and the whirlpool of national rejuvenation, were men who knew no other moral teaching than the Precepts of Knighthood.　我国の船の舵取りをした大政治家たちは、武士道以外他の道徳的教訓を知らない人々であった （令和８年５月31日　限定公開）　

#25 Some writers have lately tried to prove that the Christian missionaries contributed an appreciable quota to the making of New Japan.    二三の著者は新日本の建設にキリスト教宣教師が大きな割合の貢献を為したことを証明しようと試みた（令和８年５月31日　公開）　

#26 I would fain render honour to whom honour is due ; but this honour can as yet hardly be accorded to the good missionaries.    私は名誉の帰すべき者には喜んで名誉を与えようと思うが、宣教師には認められない（令和８年５月31日　公開）

#27 More fitting it will be to their profession to stick to the scriptural injunction of preferring one another in honour, than to advance a claim in which they have no proofs to back them.　彼らの主張を裏付ける証拠もなしに主張を声高にするよりも・・・・　（令和８年５月31日　公開）

#28 For myself, I believe that Christian missionaries are doing great things for Japan — in the domain of education, and especially of moral education: — only, the mysterious though not the less certain working of the Spirit is still hidden in divine secrecy.　聖霊の活動は確実ではあるが神秘的である　日本における宣教師の活動もそうである　（令和８年５月31日　限定公開）

#29 Whatever they do is still of indirect effect.    宣教師らが如何なる活動も、その事業は間接的效果があるに過ぎない　（令和８年５月31日　限定公開）

#30 No, as yet Christian missions have effected but little visible in moulding the character of New Japan.     否、今日までの所キリスト教伝道が新日本の性格を形成する上で影響与えたところは殆んど見られない　（令和８年５月31日　限定公開）

#31 No, it was Bushido, pure and simple, that urged us on for weal or woe.    否、善かれ悪しかれ我々を動かしたものは純粋無雜の武士道であった（令和８年５月31日　限定公開）

#32 Open the biographies of the makers of Modern Japan — of Sakuma, of Saigo, of Okubo, of Kido, not to mention the reminiscences of living men such as Ito, Okuma, Itagaki, etc., — and you will find that it was under the impetus of samuraihood that they thought and wrought.　明治の志士たちの思索及び行動は武士道の刺激の下に行われた（令和８年５月31日　限定公開）

#33 When Mr. Henry Norman declared, after his study and observation of the Far East, that the only respect in which Japan differed from other oriental despotisms lay in "the ruling influence among her people of the strictest, loftiest, and the most punctilious codes of honour that man has ever devised," he touched the mainspring which has made New Japan what she is, and which will make her what she is destined to be.　ヘンリー・ノーマン氏・・・極東の調査と観察の末に一つの結論（令和８年５月31日　公開）

#34 The transformation of Japan is a fact patent to the whole world. Into a work of such magnitude various motives naturally entered; but if one were to name the principal, one would not hesitate to name Bushido.　日本の変貌の主な原動力は武士道である　（令和８年５月31日　公開）

#35  When we opened the whole country to foreign trade, when we introduced the latest improvements in every department of life, when we began to study Western politics and sciences, our guiding motive was not the development of our physical resources and the increase of wealth; much less was it a blind imitation of Western customs. 　我々の指導的原動力　（令和８年５月31日　限定公開）

#36 A close observer of oriental institutions and peoples has written:
"We are told every day how Europe has influenced Japan, and forget that the change in those islands was entirely self-generated, that Europeans did not teach Japan, but that Japan of herself chose to learn from Europe methods of organisation, civil and military, which have so far proved successful.　タウンゼンド氏は言う。 日本は自発的に西洋から学んだのだ。　（令和８年6月1日　公開）

#37 She imported European mechanical science, as the Turks years before imported European artillery.　数年前トルコが欧洲の大砲を輸入した如く、日本は欧洲の機械科学を輸入した　（令和８年6月1日　限定公開）

#38 That is not exactly influence," continues Mr. Townsend, "unless, indeed, England is influenced by purchasing tea in China.　正確に言えば、それは影響ではない、とタウゼンド氏（令和８年6月2日　限定公開）

#39 Where is the European apostle," asks our author, "or philosopher or statesman or agitator, who has re-made Japan?"　日本を改造したヨーロッパの使徒、哲学者、政治家若くは煽動者がどこにいるか（令和８年6月2日　限定公開）

#40 Mr. Townsend has well perceived that the spring of action which brought about the changes in Japan lay entirely within our own selves; and if he had only probed into our psychology, his keen powers of observation would easily have convinced him that this spring was no other than Bushido.　日本の変化を造り出した原動力は我が国民自身の中に存する事、そしてそれは武士道であること（令和８年6月2日　公開）

#41 The sense of honour which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, — that was the strongest of motives.    劣等国と見下されることを我慢できないとする名誉の感覚 ― これが最も強い動機であった（令和８年6月6日　限定公開）

#42  Pecuniary or industrial considerations were awakened later in the process of transformation.　殖産興業の考慮は、改革の過程に於いて後より目覚めて来たのである　（令和８年6月6日　限定公開）

#43  The influence of Bushido is still so palpable that he who runs may read.　武士道の感化は今日でもなお明白なので走者も読み得る程である（令和８年6月6日　限定公開）

#44 A glimpse into Japanese life will make it manifest.　日本人の生活を一瞥すれば自ずから明瞭である　（令和８年6月7日　公開）

#45 Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido.　日本人の心の最も雄弁にして且つ忠実なる解釈者であるラフカディオ・ハーン　小泉八雲　　　（令和８年6月7日　公開）

#46  The universal politeness of the people, which is the legacy of knightly ways, is too well known to be repeated anew.　日本人が礼儀を重んずるは武士道の遺産である　　　（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#47 The physical endurance, fortitude, and bravery that "the little Jap" possesses, were sufficiently proved in the Chino-Japanese war.　「矮小ジャップ」が有する忍耐、不撓並に勇気は日清戦争に於いて十分に証明された　（令和８年6月7日　公開）

#48 "Is there any nation more loyal and patriotic?" is a question asked by many; and for the proud answer, "There is not," we must thank the Precepts of Knighthood.　之にして「世界無比!」と吾人の誇りやかに答へ得るは、之れ武士道の賜である　（令和８年6月7日　公開）

#49  On the other hand, it is fair to recognise that for the very faults and defects of our character, Bushido is largely responsible. 我が国民の欠点短所にしても武士道が大いに責任あることを承認することは公平である　（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#50 Our lack of abstruse philosophy — while some of our young men have already gained international reputation in scientific researches, not one has achieved anything in philosophical lines — is traceable to the neglect of metaphysical training under Bushido's regimen of education.　我が国で哲学分野の学問が振るわないのは、形而上学を軽視した武士道のせいだろうか　（令和８年6月7日　公開）　

#51 Our sense of honour is responsible for our exaggerated sensitiveness and touchiness; and if there is the conceit in us with which some foreigners charge us, that, too, is a pathological outcome of honour.　我が国民の感情に過ぎ、事に激し易い性質・・・それも名誉心の病的結果（令和８年6月7日　公開）

#52 Have you seen in your tour of Japan many a young man with unkempt hair, dressed in shabbiest garb, carrying in his hand a large cane or a book, stalking about the streets with an air of utter indifference to mundane things?　蓬髪弊衣、大きな杖、または書物を手にし、世事関せずの態度を以って大道を潤歩する多くの青年（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）
　

#53  He is the shoséi (student), to whom the earth is too small and the heavens are not high enough.　彼は『書生』(学生)であり、彼にとっては地球は小さ過ぎ、天が高すぎることはない　（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#54  He has his own theories of the universe and of life.　彼は宇宙及び人生について彼独自の説を持つ　（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#55  He dwells in castles of air and feeds on ethereal words of wisdom.　空中楼閣に住み、幽玄なる智慧の言を食う　　（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#56  In his eyes beams the fire of ambition;  his mind is a thirst for knowledge.　大志の炎が彼の目の中に輝き、彼の心は知識に渇く　　（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#57  Penury is only a stimulus to drive him onward;  worldly goods are in his sight shackles to his character.　貧窮は彼を前進させる刺激に過ぎず、この世の財宝は彼の品性に対する桎梏であると見なす　（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#58  He is the repository of loyalty and patriotism.　忠君愛国の宝庫である（令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#59  He is the self-imposed guardian of national honour.    国民的名誉の番人を以って自任    （令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#60  With all his virtues and his faults, he is the last fragment of Bushido.    その美徳、並びにその欠点の一切を挙げて、彼は武士道の最後の断片である  （令和８年6月7日　限定公開）

#61 Deep-rooted and powerful as is still the effect of Bushido, I have said that it is an unconscious and mute influence.　武士道の感化は国民の中に今だに深く根差していて強い。それは無意識的、かつ沈默の感化である（令和８年6月8日　公開）

#62  The heart of the people responds, without knowing a reason why, to any appeal made to what it has inherited, and hence the same moral idea expressed in a newly translated term and in an old Bushido term, has a vastly different degree of efficacy. 　人の心は、自分たちが受け継いできたものへの訴えかけには反応する　（令和８年6月8日　限定公開）

#63 A backsliding Christian, whom no pastoral persuasion could help from downward tendency, was reverted from his course by an appeal made to his loyalty, the fidelity he once swore to his Master .　堕落したクリスチャンが忠誠心と誠実さになされた訴えかけによって、その誤った道から立ち直った（令和８年6月8日　公開）

#64  The word "Loyalty" revived all the noble sentiments that were permitted to grow lukewarm.　「忠義」という一語が、生煮えと成るに任せられていたすべての高貴なる感情を復活させたのである　（令和８年6月8日　限定公開）

#65 A party of unruly youths engaged in a long-continued "students' strike" in a college, on account of their dissatisfaction with a certain teacher, disbanded at two simple questions put by the Director,--　青年たちが長く継続して学生ストライキをやっていたが、校長の出した二つの簡単な質問によって解散した（令和８年6月8日　公開）

#66  "Is your professor a worthy character?    If so,  you ought to respect him and keep him in the school.　 諸君の教授は価値ある人物であるか。もしそうであれば、諸君は彼を尊敬して学校に留めるべきである（令和８年6月9日　限定公開）

#67  Is he weak?　 If  so,  it is not manly to push a falling man.　彼は弱き人物であるか。 もしそうであれば、倒れる者を突くは男らしくない　（令和８年6月9日　限定公開）

#68  " The scientific incapacity of the professor, which was the beginning of the trouble, dwindled into insignificance in comparison with the moral issues hinted at.　その教授の学力欠乏は校長の暗示した道徳的問題に比すれば、小問題となってしまったのである（令和８年6月9日　限定公開）

#69  By arousing the sentiments nurtured by Bushido, moral renovation of great magnitude can be accomplished.　武士道によって涵養された感情を喚起することによって、偉大なる道徳的革新が成就され得る（令和８年6月9日　限定公開）

#70  One cause of the failure of mission work is that most of the missionaries are entirely ignorant of our history — "What do we care for heathen records?" some say--and consequently estrange their religion from the habits of thought we and our forefathers have been accustomed to for centuries past.　我国に於けるキリスト教伝道事業失敗の一原因　（令和８年6月9日　限定公開）

#71  Mocking a nation's history? — as though the career of any people even of the lowest African savages possessing no record — were not a page in the general history of mankind, written by the hand of God Himself.　どのような民族の歴史も神御自身の手によりて書かれた人類一般史の一頁ではないか　（令和８年6月10日　限定公開）

#72 The very lost races are a palimpsest to be deciphered by a seeing eye.　滅亡した種族さえも、具眼の士によって判読されるべき古文書である　（令和８年6月11日　公開）

#73 To a philosophic and pious mind the races themselves are marks of Divine chirography clearly traced in black and white as on their skin; and if this simile holds good, the yellow race forms a precious page inscribed in hieroglyphics of gold !　哲学的、かつ敬虔な心には各人種は神の書き給いし記号である　　（令和８年6月11日　公開）

#74 Ignoring the past career of a people, missionaries claim that Christianity is a new religion, whereas, to my mind, it is an "old, old story," which, if presented in intelligible words, — that is to say, if expressed in the vocabulary familiar in the moral development of a people, — will find easy lodgment in their hearts, irrespective of race or nationality.　一国民がその道徳的発達上熟知する語彙を以って表現すべきである　　（令和８年6月12日　公開）

#75 Christianity in its American or English form — with more of Anglo-Saxon freaks and fancies than grace and purity of its Founder — is a poor scion to graft on Bushido stock.　アングロサクソン的恣意妄想のキリスト教は武士道の幹に接木するには貧弱なる芽である　　（令和８年6月13日　公開）

#76  Should the propagator of the new faith uproot the entire stock, root, and branches, and plant the seeds of the Gospel on the ravaged soil ? 　キリスト教の宣伝者はその地の民族の幹、根、枝を全部根こそぎしてまで、布教すべきか?　（令和８年6月14日　限定公開）

#77 Such a heroic process may be possible — in Hawaii, where, it is alleged, the Church militant had complete success in amassing spoils of wealth itself, and in annihilating the aboriginal race;　ハワイでは戦闘的教会は富そのものの搾取と土人種族の絶滅とに完全なる成功を収めたとされている　（令和８年6月14日　公開）　

#78  such a process is most decidedly impossible in Japan — nay,  it is a process which Jesus Himself would never have adopted in founding His kingdom on earth. 　イエス御自身が地上に彼の王国を建てるに於いて決して採用し給われない方法である　（令和８年6月14日　限定公開）　

#79 It behooves us to take more to heart the following words of a saintly man, devout Christian, and profound scholar: "Men have divided the world into heathen and Christian, without considering how much good may have been hidden in the one or how much evil may have been mingled with the other.　聖徒、敬虔なるキリスト者、かつ深遠な学者であるジョエットの言葉　　（令和８年6月14日　公開）

#80  They have compared the best part of themselves with the worst of their neighbours, the ideal of Christianity with the corruption of Greece or of the East.　キリスト教の理想をギリシャ、または東洋の腐敗と比較する　　（令和８年6月14日　限定公開）　

#81  They have not aimed at impartiality, but have been contented to accumulate all that could be said in praise of their own, and in dispraise of other forms of religion." 　キリスト教の理想と他の宗教の短所を集めて比べて満足する　（令和８年6月14日　限定公開）　

#82 But, whatever may be the error committed by individuals, there is little doubt that the fundamental principle of the religion they profess is a power which we must take into account in reckoning the future of Bushido, whose days seem to be already numbered.　武士道の日は既に数えられたか　（令和８年6月14日　公開）

#83 Ominous signs are in the air that betoken its future. Not only signs, but redoubtable forces are at work to threaten it.　将来への不吉の徴候が空にある。 徴候ばかりでなく、強大なる諸勢力が働いて武士道を脅かしつつある　（令和８年6月14日　公開）　

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