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The Complete Book of Five Rings
233 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 11, 2010
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Miyamoto Musashi
227 books1,195 followersMiyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – June 13, 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was an expert Japanese swordsman and rōnin. Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through stories of his excellent swordsmanship in numerous duels, even from a very young age. He was the founder of the Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū or Niten-ryū style of swordsmanship and the author of The Book of Five Rings (五輪の書 Go Rin No Sho), a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy that is still studied today.
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May 20, 2025
I believe this Book is a guideline for warrios but also a guideline for every day life for anyone. this book has given me a knowledge of life lessons 400 years ago that still hold true today.
March 14, 2025
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I have heard of The Art of War by Sun Tzu and I have planned to read that. But I had never heard of this book before reading it. It came across one of my For You Pages, so I inquired.
What an incredible opportunity to read a book that is almost 400 years old. It has much philosophy that still remains relevant centuries later. I imagined what it would have been like for the training warriors who would read these words and apply it to their journey of becoming Samuari and the kenjutsu arts. Honor, self discipline, strategy are some of the foundational highlights in this book.
I chose not to give this book a personal rating because I don’t feel that any rating I could give would be honorable to the words written and preserved.
“Immature strategy is the cause of grief.”
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
“You can only fight the way that you practice.”
“From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet.”
I have heard of The Art of War by Sun Tzu and I have planned to read that. But I had never heard of this book before reading it. It came across one of my For You Pages, so I inquired.
What an incredible opportunity to read a book that is almost 400 years old. It has much philosophy that still remains relevant centuries later. I imagined what it would have been like for the training warriors who would read these words and apply it to their journey of becoming Samuari and the kenjutsu arts. Honor, self discipline, strategy are some of the foundational highlights in this book.
I chose not to give this book a personal rating because I don’t feel that any rating I could give would be honorable to the words written and preserved.
“Immature strategy is the cause of grief.”
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
“You can only fight the way that you practice.”
“From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet.”
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