The Book of Five Rings

Written in 1645, Musashi was a Samurai in Japan’s Edo period. He wrote this book shortly before his death describing his ‘ways’. One of few well known East Asian books written on the art of strategy, Musashi asserts that the skill of a swordsman comes from professional mastery and seeing your weapon as an extension of yourself. While the content of the time was considerably different, many of the lessons Musashi espouses can be applied to the modern context