Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi, also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was the author of The Book of Five Rings (五輪の書 Go Rin No Sho?), a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy.

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 * "If one knows only sword technique, one cannot know the true path.... It is that which must be known from the large matters to the small matters, from the shallow matters to the deep matter.