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Ruth Benedict

“One can hardly find elsewhere than in Japan techniques of mysticism pursued without the reward of the consummating mystic experience and appropriated by warriors to train them for hand-to-hand combat.”

Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture by Ruth Benedict
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