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1 online resource (1 audio file (180 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Scott Brick. |
| Summary |
Setting down his thoughts on swordplay, on winning, and on spirituality, legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi intended this modest work as a guide for his immediate disciples and future generations of samurai. He had little idea he was penning a masterpiece that would be eagerly devoured by people in all walks of life centuries after his death.Along with The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Book of Five Rings has long been regarded as an invaluable treatise on the strategy of winning. Musashi's timeless advice on defeating an adversary, throwing an opponent off-guard, creating confusion, and other techniques for overpowering an assailant was addressed to the readers of earlier times on the battlefield and now serves the modern reader in the battle of life. In this new rendering by the translator of Hagakure and The Unfettered Mind, William Scott Wilson adheres rigorously to the seventeenth-century Japanese text and clarifies points of ambiguity in earlier translations. In addition, he offers an extensive introduction and a translation of Musashi's rarely published The Way of Walking Alone. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Swordplay -- Japan -- Early works to 1800.
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Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
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| Added Author |
Brick, Scott. Narrator.
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Wilson, William Scott, 1944-
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Brick, Scott.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781400198528 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1400198526 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10756066 |
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