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The Hundred Rules of War Paperback – 28 July 2017

by Tsukahara Bokuden (Author), eric shahan (Translator)
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A book by a veteran Samurai to young warriors who had not tasted battle. The man known as a sword saint, Tsukahara Bokuden 1489-1571, composed this work seventy-five years before Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings. Bokuden studied Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto School and later founded the Kashima Shinto School of sword fighting. This book, which consists of a hundred songs, was transmitted to Samurai who had not yet fought in battle. In the early 1600s a forward was written by the Zen Priest Takuan Soho. Later the eighth Tokugawa Shogun Yoshimune added an introduction. This is the first English translation of this work and it is presented beside the original Japanese brush script. The English will be on the facing page. According to the afterward, for several generations this document was only transmitted to only one other person.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (28 July 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1548035661
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1548035662
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.17 x 22.86 cm
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    Eric Shahan is an independent translator of Japanese books on a variety of topics mainly Jujutsu, sword techniques, police manuals, Karate, Ninja related, travel guides, Edo Era Manga, rope binding, tattooing in all areas of Japan and Seppuku.

    After moving to Japan in 2002 he taught himself Japanese and began translating books in 2010 with the publication of Ninjutsu no Gokui "The Essence of Ninjutsu." Eric followed up with translations of Jujutsu, Kenjutsu and Karate books in addition to 18th century comic stories as well as Japanese police and military manuals.

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Michael Schjerling
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for any martial artist
Reviewed in Germany on 28 January 2022
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A must read for any martial artist
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JAMES ZEDD
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good purchase for any budoka.
Reviewed in Canada on 24 December 2017
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Well written and the images are excellent.
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The Quantum Dointer
5.0 out of 5 stars Most authors publishing source material on the ninja or samurai are (at best! ) working with modern Japanese translations of the ...
Reviewed in the United States on 31 August 2017
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Once again, Eric Shahan has made a tremendously significant contribution to the available English-language source material on the life and philosophy of the samurai. Unlike the overwhelming majority of authors publishing in this domain today, Eric actually translated this manuscript directly from the original Japanese to English. I can't overstate the degree to which this (a) increases the fidelity of the English rendering and (b) is exceedingly rare. Most authors publishing source material on the ninja or samurai are (at best!) working with modern Japanese translations of the original classical texts. Naturally, the more links there are between the original and the English, the more opportunities there are for things to get misinterpreted. None of these issues are present in Eric's work here.

As for the text itself, The Hundred Rules of War are a collection of insights transmitted from one of Japanese history's greatest warriors, Tsukahara Bokuden. The idioms range from philosophical to practical, and can be treated as daily meditations for both practitioners of Japanese martial arts and those that have an interest in applying the Japanese warrior's mindset to their lives.

As someone that's been studying the samurai and ninja for approaching a decade now, I feel comfortable saying that this should be considered a mandatory addition to any self-respecting Japanophile's bookshelf.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Superfluous.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2018
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Superfluous.
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George C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, a quick read with pretty neat nuanced rules you'd never think about!
Reviewed in the United States on 18 September 2021
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Great Book, it's a pretty quick read with some neat nuanced rules you'd never think about! Highly recommend it!
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