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Words of wisdom from great samurai leaders: A collection of
inspiring essays and aphorisms from Japan's leading warriors
Samurai warrior leaders had to deal with grim conditions of life,
death and survival. But such men were not simply rough uneducated
fighters: they often personified the Far Eastern ideal of balancing
cultural awareness and artistic expertise with high martial
abilities. Their sayings, precepts and the anecdotes about them are
informed by a broad spectrum of interests, many of which are still
relevant today. Advice in this book includes: You should not envy
the swords and clothing of others. It goes without saying that you
should arrange your hair early in the morning if you are going out
to your work, but this should be done even if you are thinking of
staying at home. When you think too much, it is difficult to
achieve your objectives. If you are too clever and look too far
ahead, you will accomplish nothing. If you have some pressing or
urgent affair, write it down with a calm state of mind. Your
regular meals should be light, and you should not take a trivial
liking for elegant cuisine. If someone promotes only those things
the lord finds acceptable, and never remonstrates with him at all,
you should watch that man carefully. No matter how wise a person
may be, you should never depend fully on him but rather, understand
that you are always on your own. Covering universal themes ranging
from the courage and ambition to face daily affairs, the insights
and strategies necessary to deal with allies and opponents, the
value of art and literature, and even why and how to save money--
this is a book whose ancient wisdom is still highly relevant and of
great value to readers today.
An old pond; a frog jumps in: the sound of water -- Basho This
comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the
perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and
with commentary by renowned author and translator William Scott
Wilson, the book features 26 poets and 550 haiku, exquisitely
translated. Wilson takes the reader on a fascinating journey
through the works of the major Japanese poets from the fifteenth
century up to the present. The poets include Basho, Shiki, Buson
and Issa (the "Great Four") along with other well-known
practitioners of the genre such as Ryokan, Kikaku and Chora. Wilson
gives his own brand-new renditions of poems that are already known
as classics, and also shares with us the delightful work of a
number of poets who are rarely found in English translation, such
as six female poets including Chiyojo and Hisajo, as well as
novelist Natsume Soseki, who, unbeknown to many, also wrote haiku.
The book is divided into sections, each starting with a 2-4 page
introduction to each poet, followed by a selection of that poet's
haiku, in Japanese script and English translation. Online audio
files are available with recordings of the poems in both English
and Japanese.
This book offers a new theory of music as a form of social bond
analogous to language as it is understood according to the Lacanian
orientation in psychoanalysis. It presents contemporary examples
that look at how music has become both a powerful locus of
discontent and a form of orientation.
This book offers a new theory of music as a form of social bond
analogous to language as it is understood according to the Lacanian
orientation in psychoanalysis. It presents contemporary examples
that look at how music has become both a powerful locus of
discontent and a form of orientation.
Revised for 2009 and beyond, The Black Book of Outsourcing is a
comprehensive guide and directory for the evolving field of
outsourcing, including expert advice on how to operate an
outsourcing program. Valuable governance checklists, offshoring
insights, best practices and one-of-kind resources are featured in
this bible of the outsourcing industry. First published in 2005,
this topical, bestselling manual explores the evolution of both
outsourcing buyers and suppliers.
Outsourcing and research gurus Douglas Brown and Scott Wilson
chart a course of advice for business leaders charged with managing
sourcing initiatives, present a wealth of opportunities for job
seekers, and offer insights for entrepreneurial thinkers and
investors worldwide
The fascinating and quirky biography of a disheveled poet,
skillfully interwoven with his original works. Zen monk Santoka
Taneda (1882-1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets,
famous for his "free-verse" haiku, the dominant style today. This
book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled
with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and
journals--compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama
and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson. Santoka was a
literary prodigy, but a notoriously disorganized human being. By
his own admission, he was incapable of doing anything other than
wandering the countryside and writing verses. Although Santoka
married and had a son, he devoted his life to poetry, studying Zen,
drinking sake and wandering the length and breadth of the Japanese
islands on foot, as a mendicant monk. The poet's life alternated
between long periods of solitary retreat and restless travel,
influenced by his tragic childhood. When not on the road, he lived
in simple grass huts supported by friends and family. Santoka was a
lively conversationalist who was often found so drunk he could only
make it home with the help of a friendly neighbor or passerby. But
above all, throughout his life, he wrote constantly; poetry and
essays flowed from him effortlessly. Santoka's eccentric style of
haiku is highly regarded in Japan today for being truly modern and
free from formal constraints. His journals and essays are equally
thought-provoking--the musings of an unkempt but supremely
self-conscious mind on everything from writing to cooking rice and
his failure to live a more orderly life. This translation and its
introduction are by best-selling author William Scott Wilson, whose
other works include The Book of Five Rings and The Lone Samurai.
Wilson provides sensitive renditions of the haiku illustrating
Santoka's life as well as an extensive introduction to the
influences on Santoka's work, from contemporary haiku poets and his
Buddhist teachers. Alongside the book, readers have access to a
two-hour online audio recording of 331 of Santoka Taneda's haiku,
read in Japanese by a native speaker, and in English.
The life of Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645), Japan's greatest samurai
swordsman, is chronicled in this first authoritative, "lively and
balanced" ("Library Journal"), English-language biography of the
impressive warrior. Included is original artwork by Musashi plus
Glossary, map, and Appendices.
Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a
negative form of environmental writing that 'blackens' the cosmos.
This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins 'black' and
'ecology': melancology, a word in which can be heard the melancholy
affect appropriate to the conjunction. Black metal resounds from
the abyss and it is precisely only in relation to its sonic forces
that the question of intervention in the environment arises in the
articulation of melancology with ethics. That is, in deciding
'which way out' we should take, in deciding with what surpluses to
dwell, with what waste, what detritus or decay in a process of
unbinding with sonic forces that traverse an earth choking in
wealth and death. The book thus provides a provocative and
challenging contribution both to popular and intellectual debates
on ecology.
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The Book of Five Rings (Hardcover)
Miyamoto Musashi; Translated by William Scott Wilson; Illustrated by Shiro Tsujimura
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When the undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave in
1643 and wrote "The Book of Five Rings," a manifesto on
swordsmanship, strategy, and winning for his students and
generations of samurai to come, he created one of the most
perceptive and incisive texts on strategic thinking ever to come
from Asia.
Musashi gives timeless advice on defeating an adversary, throwing
an opponent off-guard, creating confusion, and other techniques for
overpowering an assailant that will resonate with both martial
artists and everyone else interested in skillfully dealing with
conflict. For Musashi, the way of the martial arts was a mastery of
the mind rather than simply technical prowess--and it is this path
to mastery that is the core teaching in "The Book of Five Rings."
William Scott Wilson's translation is faithful to the original
seventeenth-century Japanese text while being wonderfully clear and
readable. His scholarship and insight into the deep meaning of this
classic are evident in his introduction and notes to the text. This
edition also includes a translation of one of Musashi's earlier
writings, "The Way of Walking Alone," and calligraphy by Japanese
artist Shiro Tsujimura.
This manga version of 'The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts'
dramatically presents these classic martial arts parables written
by an 18th-century samurai, making them appealing to a wide
audience. The tales are concerned with themes such as perception of
conflict, self-transformation, and understanding yin and yang.
The Japanese dramatic art of Noh has a rich 600 year history and
has had a huge influence on Japanese culture and such Western
artists as Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats. The actor and
playwright Zeami (1363-1443) is the most celebrated figure in the
history of Noh, with his numerous outstanding plays and his
treatises outlining his theories on the art. Along with the
'Fushikaden', Wilson includes a comprehensive introduction
describing the historical background and philosophy of Noh, as well
as a new translation of one of Zeami's most moving plays,
'Atsumori'.
Newly available in paperback, this book looks at how rap and metal
have been highly engaged with America's role in the world,
supercapitalism and their own role within it. This has especially
been the case when genres - hitherto clearly identified as
indelibly 'black' or 'white' forms of music - have crossed over as
an effect of cross-racial forms of identification and desire,
marketing strategy, political engagement, opportunism and
experimentation. It is how examples of these forms have negotiated,
contested, raged against, survived, exploited, simulated and
performed 'Satan's rage' that is the subject of this book. The book
offers a highly original approach in relating rap/metal to critical
theories of economy and culture, introducing a new method of
cultural analysis based on theories of negativity and expenditure
that will be of great interest to students in media and cultural
studies, American studies, critical and cultural theory,
advertising and marketing, and sociology and politics. -- .
This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive
popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly engaged with
America's role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role
within it. This has especially been the case when genres - hitherto
clearly identified as indelibly 'black' or 'white' forms of music -
have crossed over as an effect of cross-racial forms of
identification and desire, marketing strategy, political
engagement, opportunism and experimentation. It is how examples of
these forms have negotiated, contested, raged against, survived,
exploited, simulated and performed 'Satan's rage' that is the
subject of this book. The book offers a highly original approach in
relating rap/metal to critical theories of economy and culture,
introducing a new method of cultural analysis based on theories of
negativity and expenditure that will be of great interest to
students in media and cultural studies, American studies, critical
and cultural theory, advertising and marketing, and sociology and
politics. -- .
Designed to help build powerful community organizations, empower
ordinary citizens to become leaders, and bring about major social
and economic change, this book offers a coherent practice-based
framework for understanding social action, with power and
empowerment at the center of analysis. Topics include recruiting
members, consensus building, leadership, publicity, and
fundraising.
Scott Walker and the Song of the One-All-Alone offers, in detailed
interpretative commentaries of his best songs, a sustained
assessment of the work and career of Scott Walker, one of the most
significant and perplexing artists of the late 20th and 21st
century. For Brian Eno, Walker was not only a great composer and a
superlative lyricist but also a significant contemporary poet. Marc
Almond goes further, 'an absolute musical genius, existential and
intellectual and a star right from the days of The Walker
Brothers'. As Almond suggests, Walker's work is marked by a
continual engagement with existentialist philosophy informing his
approach to art, politics and life. In particular, the device of
the solitary figure or 'one-all-alone' evoked in his songs provides
the basis for his lyrical exploration of the singularity of
existence - in all its darkness as well as light. Through following
his own path, Walker arrived at a unique sound according to his own
method that produced a genuinely new form of song. Looking closely
at these songs, this book also considers the wider political
implications of his approach in its rejection of external
authorities and common or consensual ideals.
The Japanese have always closely associated the sword and the
spirit, but it was in the 1600s during the Tokugawa shogunate when
the techniques of swordsmanship became forever associated with the
spirit of Zen. 'The Unfettered Mind' is a book of advice on
swordsmanship and the cultivation of right mind and intention.
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