Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, War, Body

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.41, Kodansha International

• The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, War, Should Have

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.41, Kodansha International

• It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, Fool, Selflessness

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.4, Xist Publishing

• It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Art, Military, War

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.128, Bottom of the Hill

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