![]() ![]() Since then I have lived without following any particular Way. After that I studied morning and evening searching for the principle, and came to realise the Way of strategy when I was fifty. Perhaps it was natural ability, or the order of heaven, or that other schools' strategy was inferior. The previous victories were not due to my having mastered strategy. When I reached thirty I looked back on my past. This was between the ages of thirteen and twenty-eight or twenty-nine. ![]() When I was twenty-one I went up to the capital and met all manner of strategists, never once failing to win in many contests.Īfter that I went from province to province duelling with strategist of various schools, and not once failed to win even though I had as many as sixty encounters. When I was sixteen I struck down an able strategist Tadashima Akiyama. My first duel was when I was thirteen, I struck down a strategist of the Shinto school, one Arima Kihei. ![]() I am a warrior of Harima province, Shinmen Musashi No Kami Fujiwara No Genshin, age sixty years.įrom youth my heart has been inclined toward the Way of strategy. I have climbed mountain Iwato of Higo in Kyushu to pay homage to heaven, pray to Kwannon, and kneel before Buddha. It is now during the first ten days of the tenth month in the twentieth year of Kanei (1645). 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. ![]()
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