Spirit of the Samurai: Strategy Training

Author: Miyamoto Musashi, Yasunobu Yagyu
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book includes two of the most important principles in Japanese history that explain law and winning strategies——《The Book of Five Rings》and《The Transmission of the Swordsmanship of the House of Yagyu》。Authors Miyamoto Musashi and Yasunobu Yagyu are renowned samurai and masters of martial arts in Japanese history. The swordsmanship and martial arts principles, thoughts, and strategies they discuss in the book are considered by masters to be suitable not only for samurai but also for any form of competition. These two works, especially Miyamoto Musashi's《The Book of Five Rings》, have had a profound influence on people in all walks of life in Japan for a long time. Today, Japanese managers still use the teachings from it to guide their decisions and business operations. This book is as renowned in the world as China's《Sun Tzu's Art of War》and Germany's Carl von Clausewitz's《On War》.