NEW, The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi, Luxury Full-Color Edition

London: Arcturus, 2024. NEW. Fine. This deluxe hardback gift edition presents a classic Japanese text written by undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, featuring stenciled page edges, gold cover embossing and full-color illustrations. Original Japanese text shown beside the English translation by Victor Harris. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket, as issued. 207 pages. 7½ x 10" tall.

In his lifetime, Miyamoto Musashi's recorded his 'true principles' which he believed guaranteed victory in martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of relying on religion or theory, Musashi based his writings on his own experience, observation, and reason. The scrolls, published as The Book of Five Rings, have gained an international reputation in the business world as a means of resolving differences and achieving success.