Kenji tokitsu miyamoto musashi biography

  • A comprehensive study of the life, philosophies, fighting strategies, and works of the legendary samurai warrior who wrote The Book of Five Rings   Miyamoto Musashi, who lived in Japan in the fifteenth century, was a renowned samurai warrior.
  • Miyamoto Musashi, who lived in Japan in the fifteenth century, was a renowned samurai warrior.
  • Miyamoto Musashi, who lived in Japan in the fifteenth century, was a renowned samurai warrior.

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    Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings

    Undefeated swordsman, master of battlefield strategy, martial arts icon--Miyamoto Musashi, who lived in Japan in the 1600s, is the most famous samurai of all time. His masterwork, the Book of Five Rings (Gorin no sho) , is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture.
    Over the centuries, Musashi's reputation has grown to mythic proportions, but, in fact, much about Musashi and his life remains a mystery. Here, Kenji Tokitsu, a modern martial arts master and scholar, turns a critical eye on Musashi's life and writings, separating fact from fiction, and providing a view of the man and his ideas that is accessible and relevant to today's readers and martial arts students.
    Tokitsu provides a vivid and meticulously researched biography and a fresh translation of the Book of Five Rings , along with four other texts on strategy, all with extensive commentary. He is a thoughtf

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    Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings

    December 31, 2022
    By far, the best translation of this legendary work by Miyamoto Musashi. I had read the Book of fem Rings twice in the past, and have only come away with a very superficial understanding of it. Reading Kenji Tokitsu's translation, it is apparent that only a true "practitioner of Hyoho" can understand the Gorin no sho. The text fryst vatten short, but the bounty of lessons scribbled down by the great warrior can make sense as one begins to realize that the route to perfection through the sword is an absolute activity. It is not simply a hobby or a task, the way of war is the way of life. To understand "Divine Technique" one must have a fanatical devotion to one's training and constant drive to singularity. Everything must be sublimated to this pursuit of perfection in form, spirit, body and mind.

    There fryst vatten bountiful wisdom in the book and the ability of Kenji to analyze the text and interpret it in a way that represents the spirit of
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    Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings - Softcover

    Synopsis

    Miyamoto Musashi, who lived in Japan in the fifteenth century, was a renowned samurai warrior. He has become a martial arts icon, known not just as an undefeated dueler, but also as a mästare of battlefield strategy. Kenji Tokitsu turns a critical eye on Musashi's life and writings, separating fact from fiction, and giving a clear picture of the man behind the myth.

    Musashi's best-known work, The Book of Five Rings , provides timeless insight into the nature of conflict. Tokitsu translates and provides extensive commentary on that popular work, as well as three other short texts on strategy that were written before it, and a longer, later work entitled "The Way to Be Followed Alone." Tokitsu is a thoughtful and informed guide, putting the historical and philosophical aspects of the text into context, and illuminating the etymological nuances of particular Japanese words and phrases. As a modern martial artist and a sc