The Book of Five Rings (1590302486)

Product ID: 100767
UPC: 094922594990
ISBN: 1590302486
ISBN13: 9781590302484

Release Date: 2005-01-11
Publication Date: 2005-01-11
Author(s): Miyamoto Musashi
Edition: New Ed
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Number of Pages: 192
Publisher: Shambhala

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Weight	0.10 Kgs
Price:	HK$64.00

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The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction.
The Book of Five Rings was composed in 1643 by the famed duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Thomas Cleary’s translation is immediately accessible, with an introduction that presents the spiritual background of the warrior tradition. Along with Musashi’s text, Cleary translates here another important Japanese classic on leadership and strategy, The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War by Yagyu Munenori, which highlights the ethical and spiritual insights of Taoism and Zen as they apply to the way of the warrior.

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MUSASHI is no doubt the legendary Samurai hero dramatized into a number of plays and novels most famous of which is by Yoshikawa Eiji. Thomas Cleary not only translated this classic by Musashi's own writing into English, but he also introduced Musashi's archrival bushido school by Yagyus' chief Munenori's "The Book of Family Traditions of Book of War". Such coupling should cause much uproars from pure bushido followers which take sides of either ideas of the way of sword.

Musashi and Yagyus have contrasting idea of the way of the samurai. For loner undefeated Musashi the goal of the school is winning the opponent alone. But for Yagyu family who has much favor from Shoguns: the goal is to get rid of the evil to do justice. Yagyus favor distinctions while Musashi abhors it. But with such striking difference they share the fundamentals. Both are influenced by Sun Zi's The Art of War and Zen Buddhism.

Essential for THE ART OF WAR appreciators and Samurai fans as well as anyone who get involved into competition in business or sports. They may give you a clue to how to win the oppponent with careful examination and readily mindset.

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