Honest Assessment

 Honest Assessment  was an earth shūji which taught that direct honesty was often seen as rudeness among the Rokugani samurai, instead, one was expected to find a polite way to imply one's meaning to spare the feelings of the other involved. As a result, directness could be something of a rare and valuable commodity, and it was most often dispensed by those with little time for frivolity, such as veteran warriors, or those with little to lose socially, such as monks.