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The Book of Five Rings (with linked TOC) [Kindle Edition]

Musashi Miyamoto (Author)
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Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.

The five "books" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle, just as there are different physical elements in life, as described by Buddhism, Shinto, and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world, should need arise.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Good book, poor version 14 July 2011
By Felix - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
"th way of the sword", The entire book is riddled with spelling mistakes such as these.
A friend of mine lent me another version of this book a few months ago, I really enjoyed it. I decided to buy my own copy due to the excellent material presented within.
This copy however is overall poorly translated, and very badly written.
Many sentences make no grammatical sense, the translator chose a lot of English words that do not do justice to the piece, every page has at least one obvious spelling mistake.
Overall a very poor job from whomever was entrusted with making an English version of this book. Had I not already read a far superior version I would have been stuck trying to piece words together and figure out what the h**l is going on.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A reference book on martial arts 28 Jun 2011
By James Euclid - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
For anyone with more than a passing interest in both buddhism/taoist philosophy which infiltrates the philosophy that supports martial arts, this book compares well with others such as Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'.

This book has been read by most famous martial artists such as Bruce Lee, and is a 'must-read' for understanding the thinking of a genuine martial artist.
The Kindle MobileReference version is the Victor Harris translation 5 Dec 2011
By Scherzo Presto - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
The Kindle edition (MobileReference version) (with linked TOC) contains the Victor Harris translation of Musashi's writing, without the translator's footnotes. The translation itself makes up two-thirds of the book, and is followed by some additional material on Musashi which does not appear in the Table of Contents. This material seems interesting, though the source is unclear (it does reference Wikipedia). It is not the same as the added material in the 1974 Overlook Press print edition, which has a similar cover. That's not a complaint, I'm just filling out the product description.
Seems like a good mobile edition of a great book; it is well formatted for the Kindle and, so far, I have found only a small number of typos.

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Do not think dishonestly. The Way is in training. Become acquainted with every art. Know the Ways of all professions. Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use. &quote;
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