Go Rin No Sho : A Book of Five Rings

By Musashi, Miyamoto

Book Id: WPLBN0000059954
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.6 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Go Rin No Sho : A Book of Five Rings
Author:	Musashi, Miyamoto
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
INTRODUCTION: I have been many years training in the Way of strategy, called Ni Ten Ichi Ryu, and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time. It is now during the first ten days of the tenth month in the twentieth year of Kanei (1645). I have climbed mountain Iwato of Higo in Kyushu to pay homage to heaven, pray to Kwannon, [God (dess) of mercy in Buddhism. Slaegr] and kneel before Buddha. I am a warrior of Harima province, Shinmen Musashi No Kami Fujiwara No Genshin, age sixty years.

Table of Contents
· INTRODUCTION · THE GROUND BOOK · THE WAY OF STRATEGY · COMPARING THE WAY OF THE CARPENTER TO STRATEGY · THE WAY OF STRATEGY · OUTLINE OF THE FIVE BOOKS OF THIS BOOK OF STRATEGY · THE NAME ICHI RYU NI TO (ONE SCHOOL-TWO SWORDS) · The Benefit of the Two Characters reading Strategy” · TIMING IN STRATEGY · THE WATER BOOK · SPIRITUAL BEARING IN STRATEGY · STANCE IN STRATEGY · THE GAZE IN STRATEGY · HOLDING THE LONG SWORD · FOOTWORK · THE FIVE ATTITUDES · THE WAY OF THE LONG SWORD · THE FIVE APPROACHES · THE “ATTITUDE NO-ATTITUDE” TEACHING · TO HIT THE ENEMY “IN ONE TIMING” · THE “ABDOMEN TIMING OF TWO” · NO DESIGN, NO CONCEPTION · THE FLOWING WATER CUT · CONTINUOUS CUT