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A psychological guide to strategy applicable to business, philosophy, or martial arts, written by sixteenth-century warrior Miyamoto Musashi as a means of explaining his success as a practitioner of Japanese swordfighting, or Kendo.
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Gorin no sho is by Miyamoto Musashi. The catalogue records its first publication in 1963. A later edition may have a different publication date on its copyright page.
The catalogue records 124 pages for a representative edition. Pagination varies with the publisher, format, type size and translation, so check the edition you intend to read.
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