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**exschke** · 07-10-2007, 09:07 PM

I'm gonna talk to my brother about starting kendo or to my Aunt if I move there. I'm gonna pick up a copy of The book of the five rings too as well.

Also, I'm not a troll. I use simple words cause I suck at spelling, that and firefox has spell check.

No. Get the "Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai" by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, translated by William Scott Wilson. And pay attention to what it says.
There are a lot of good moral and philosophical lessons in it. It's just excellent reading. I highly recommend it.

The book of 5 rings won't help you much as a completely untrained person. It originally was written for those studying Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu(rare to be able to study it, and there is no dojo in the US.) and apparently, only the people who study it, will truely understand the book. (Scott-san, do correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember one of you mentioning that.) Also, there are some really bad translations out there. You'd have to know whose translation is the most correct. There's one guy who doesn't even know Japanese who "translated" it. I accidentally got that one and was pretty upset when I found out. I never did read it. I was lucky to find that out from somebody before I actually wasted my time reading it. The "translator's" name is Stephen Kaufman who does karate.

Anyway, it's very late and I have something to say to you tomorrow in response to one of your earlier posts. I'm too tired to write a decent reply to it. Please check back sometime tomorrow.

I may just help you with a kendo dojo as well, if you are serious.

Kaoru

07-10-2007, 09:07 PM	#27
exschke Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 546 Senior Member	I'm gonna talk to my brother about starting kendo or to my Aunt if I move there. I'm gonna pick up a copy of The book of the five rings too as well. Also, I'm not a troll. I use simple words cause I suck at spelling, that and firefox has spell check. No. Get the "Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai" by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, translated by William Scott Wilson. And pay attention to what it says. There are a lot of good moral and philosophical lessons in it. It's just excellent reading. I highly recommend it. The book of 5 rings won't help you much as a completely untrained person. It originally was written for those studying Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu(rare to be able to study it, and there is no dojo in the US.) and apparently, only the people who study it, will truely understand the book. (Scott-san, do correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember one of you mentioning that.) Also, there are some really bad translations out there. You'd have to know whose translation is the most correct. There's one guy who doesn't even know Japanese who "translated" it. I accidentally got that one and was pretty upset when I found out. I never did read it. I was lucky to find that out from somebody before I actually wasted my time reading it. The "translator's" name is Stephen Kaufman who does karate. Anyway, it's very late and I have something to say to you tomorrow in response to one of your earlier posts. I'm too tired to write a decent reply to it. Please check back sometime tomorrow. I may just help you with a kendo dojo as well, if you are serious. Kaoru
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