ABSTRACT
In a small book of introduction to Budo entitled Budo shoshin-shu, there is a section called 'Shukke-shi,' in which Daidoji Yuzan 12, the author, says that samurai should travel round and learn while they are young, as do the Zen monks. This book points out that Buddhist monks are in general far more educated than most samurai. It is because the monks 'leave their homes: they leave their monasteries and make tours to visit other monasteries, where they study various other doctrines and also get to know other regions'.
