- Biography, Bushido, Ciencia militar, Early works to 1800
A psychological guide to strategy applicable to business, philosophy, or martial arts, written by sixteenth-century warrior Miyamoto Musashi as a means of explaining his success as a practitioner of Japanese swordfighting, or Kendo.
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Grave, earnest, cool and contemplative.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Miyamoto Musashi
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 124
- Publisher
- Audible Studios on Brilliance, Infofount.com, Shambhala Publications
- Editions
- 237
- Language
- Japanese, German, heb, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780785834007
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First sentence
“Martial arts are the warrior's way of life.”
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