Influences on Bushido: Why do you think the samurai might not cared for or valued purely intellectual pursuits such as scholarship?
O They did not admire time spent on learning pursuits because they were only
men of action.
O They rejected Confucianism.
O They felt that writing poetry was not valued by Confucius.
O It was contradictory to the usefulness of learning in the warrior's code of
Bushido.