The Complete Musashi: The Book of Five Rings and Other Works: Definitive New Translations of the Writings [Audiobook]

The culmination of 25 years of research, Alex Bennett's groundbreaking English translation of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings reveals the true meaning of the original work. This piece of writing by famed samurai Musashi (1584–1645) is the single-most influential work on samurai swordsmanship, offering insights into samurai history, the Zen Buddhist state of "no-mind" that enables warriors to triumph and the philosophical meaning of Bushido — "the way of the warrior." Until now, English translations of The Book of Five Rings have been based on inaccurate copies of Musashi's long-lost original manuscript. Bennett's translation is the first to be based on a careful reconstruction of the original text by Japan's foremost Musashi scholar. The Complete Musashi: The Book of Five Rings and Other Works will be widely heard by those interested in Japanese culture, Samurai history, and martial arts — setting a new standard against which all other translations will be measured.