Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch …

The spirit of the smacking parry is not parrying, or smacking strongly, but smacking the enemy's long sword in accordance with his attacking cut, primarily int…

'Attitude No-Attitude' means that there is no need for what are known as long sword attitudes. Even so, attitudes exist as the five ways of holding the long sw…

Second is the Water book. With water as the basis, the spirit becomes like water. Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and somet…

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one [does] at sea with a sailing ship... reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.