The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts
And Other Tales
$38.22
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2012
Summary
Classic martial arts teaching tales expertly translated and introduced by premier translator William Scott Wilson.
This collection of parables written by an eighteenth-century samurai is a classic of martial arts literature. The tales are concerned with themes such as perception of conflict, self-transformation, the cultivation of chi (life energy), and understanding yin and yang. Some of the parables seem light and fanciful, but they offer the reader valuable lessons on the fundament…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590309896 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1590309898 |
| Author: | Issai Chozanshi, William Scott Wilson |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 215g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 134mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
“In keeping with his author’s aims, William Scott Wilson, in his elegant and erudite translation, embeds the sermon between a kind of overture and a postlude comprising some of the charming animal allegories to be found in another Chozanshi book, the ‘Inaka Soshi’ (here winningly rendered as ‘The Hayseed Taoist’). The centipede questions the snake, the sea gull and the mayfly discuss the ‘Tao,’ and the toad speaks of the way of the gods. Their message is very like that of the demon—get down to essentials, forget yourself, rely on nothing, search for the heart of the truth.”—Japan Times
About The Author
Issai Chozanshi
William Scott Wilson is the foremost translator into English of traditional Japanese texts on samurai culture. His best-selling translations include Hagakure and The Book of Five Rings.
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