European Feudal Knights followed the code of Chivalry while the Japanese Samurai followed Bushido. How serious did the average Knight or Samurai strive to acheive the "ideal embodiment" these Codes?

by spacecadet1984
ParallelPain

The answer for Japan could be summarized by two points.

First, there was no unified code of Bushido until the Meiji period.

Second, here's what jesuit Luis Frois said about the so-called Japanese "honour":

Among us, treason is rare and is considered highly reprehensible; in Japan, it is so common it that it is almost never considered reprehensible.

See also here, here, here, and here.