Go Rin No ShoMiyamoto Musashi
Go Rin No Sho
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I've enjoyed all the fictionalized accounts, but I think that if you want to learn from Musashi, you should read him directly. That's the Go Rin no Sho aka The Book of Five Rings. Nekopa has recommended the Cleary translation. I will recommend Hidy Ochiai's version, A Way to Victory: The Annotated Book of Five Rings. The annotations and analysis (after…
on “Ask HN: Interesting (Non software) books?” ↗…You must make the best of the situation, see through the enemy's spirit so that you grasp his strategy and defeat him. It is impossible to write about this in detail. -- From The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) by Miyamoto Musashi (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi)
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