“I have been many years training in the Way of strategy, called Ni Ten Ichi Ryu, and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Go Rin No Sho (1645), Introduction

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Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1584–1645

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