Described as one of the “qualities of the soul”, and a virtue that is exemplified through a state of tranquillity, Courage is both the second of Nitobe Inazō’s Eight Virtues of Bushidō, the Samurai code of ethics, and of Damien Hirst’s “garish, messy and fragile” prints from his ‘The Virtues’ (H9, 2021) series.