ISBN13: 9781935785972</br>Condition: New</br>Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!</br></br>Product Description</br></br>Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings?? is considered a classic treatise on military strategy?? much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.  The five "oks" refer to the idea that there are different elements of battle?? just as there are different physical elements in life?? as described by Buddhism?? Shinto?? and other Eastern religions. Through the book Musashi defends his thesis: a man who conquers himself is ready to take it on on the world?? should need arise.</br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>To learn a Japanese martial art is to learn Zen?? and although you can't do so simply by reading a book?? it sure does help--especially if that book is <I>The Book of Five Rings</I>. One of Japan's great samurai