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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Knowing the Way of the long sword35 means we can wield with two fingers the sword we usually carry. If we know the path of the sword well, we can wield it easily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "35 The \\Vay uf tbe Long Sword, The Way as a way of life, and as the natural path of a sword blade. There is a natural movement of the sword associated with a natural behaviour according to Kenda ethics." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you try to wield the long sword quickly you will mistake the Way. To wield the long sword well you must wield it calmly. If you try to wield it quickly, like a folding fan 36 or a short sword, you will err by using \"short sword chopping\". You cannot cut a man with a longsword using this method." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you have cut downwards with the long sword, lift it straight upwards; when you cut sideways, return the sword along a sideways path. Return the sword in a reasonable way, always stretching the elbows broadly. Wield the sword strongly. This is the Way of the long sword." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you learn to use the five approaches of my strategy, you will be able to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "wield a sword well. You must train constantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Five Approaches37" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first approach is the Middle attitude. Confront the enemy with the point of your sword against his face. When he attacks, dash his sword to the right and \"ride\" it. Or, when the enemy attacks, deflect the point of his sword by hitting downwards, keep your long sword where it is, and as the enemy renews the attack cut his arms from below. This is the first method." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The five approaches are this kind of thing. You must train repeatedly using a long sword in order to learn them. When you master my Way of the long sword, you will be able to control any attack the enemy makes. I assure you, there are no attitudes other than the five attitudes of the long sword of NiTo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the second approach with the long sword, from the Upper attitude cut the enemy just as he attacks. If the enemy evades the cut, keep your sword where it is and, scooping up from below, cut him as he renews the attack. It is possible to repeat the cut from here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "36 Folding fan.· An item carried by men and women in the hot summer months. Armoured" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "officers sometimes carried an iron war fan." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "37 Tbe Five Approaches. Who can understand Musashi's methods? It is necessary to study traditional schools and basic cutting practice. Bear in m.ind that fighting technique may start from a greater distance than it seems to at first g1ance. It is said that the man who has faced death at the point of a sword has an elevated understanding." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this method there are vanous changes in t1mmg and spmt. You will be able to understand this by training in the !chi school. You will always win with the five long sword methods. You must train repetitively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the third approach, adopt the Lower attitude, anticipating scooping up. When the enemy attacks, hit his hands from below. As you do so, he may try to hit your sword down. If this is the case, cut his upper arms(s) horizontally with a feeling of \"crossing\". This means that from the Lower attitudes you hit the enemy at the instant that he attacks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will encounter this method often, both as a beginner and in later strategy. You must train holding a long sword." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this fourth approach, adopt the Left Side attitude. As the enemy attacks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "hit his hands from below. If as you hit his hands he attempts to dash down your sword, with the feeling of hitting his hands, parry the path of his long sword and cut across from above your shoulder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the Way of the long sword. Through this method you win by parrying the line of the enemy's attack. You must research this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the fifth approach, the sword is in the Right Side attitude. In accordance with the enemy's attack, cross your long sword from below at the side to the Upper attitude. Then cut straight from above." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "This method is essential for knowing the Way of the long sword well. If you can use this method, you can freely wield a heavy long sword." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "I .cannot describe in detail how to use these five approaches. You must become well acquainted with my \"in harmony with the long sword\" Way, learn large-scale timing, understand the enemy's long sword, and become used to the five approaches from the outset. You will always win by using these five methods, with various timing considerations discerning the enemy's spirit. You must consider all this carefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The\"Attitude No-Attitude\" Teaching" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "\"Attitude No-Attitude\" means that there is no need for what are known as long sword attitudes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even so, attitudes exist as the five ways of holding the long sword. However you hold the sword it must be in such a way that it is easy to cut the enemy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "well, in accordance with the situation, the place, and your relation to the enemy. From the Upper attitude as your spirit lessens you can adopt the Middle attitude, and from the Middle attitude you can raise the sword a little in your technique and adopt the Upper attitude. From the Lower attitude you can raise the sword a little and adopt the Middle attitudes as the occasion demands. According to the situation, if you turn your sword from either the Left Side or Right Side attitude towards the centre, the Middle or the Lower attitude results." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The principle of this is called \"Existing Attitude-Nonexisting Attitude\"." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "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 enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. More than anything, you must be thinking of carrying your movement through to cutting him. You must thoroughly research this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Attitude in strategy on a larger scale is called \"Battle Array\". Such attitudes are all for winning battles. Fixed formation is bad. Study this well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Hit the Enemy \"In One Timing\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "\"In One Timing\" means, when you have closed with the enemy, to hit him as quickly and directly as possible, without moving your body or settling your spirit, while you see that he is still undecided. The timing of hitting before the enemy decides to withdraw, break or hit, is this \"In One Timing\"." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must train to achieve this timing, to be able to hit in the timing of an instant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The \"Abdomen Timing of Two\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you attack and the enemy quickly retreats, as you see him tense you must feint a cut. Then, as he relaxes, follow up and hit him. This is the \"Abdomen Timing of Two\".\t." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very difficult to attain this by merely reading this book, but you will" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "soon understand with a little instruction." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "No Design, No Conception38" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this method, when the enemy attacks and you also decide to attack, hit with your body, and hit with your spirit, and hit from the Void with your hands, accelerating strongly. This is the \"No Design, No Conception\" cut." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the most important method of hitting. It is often used. You must train hard to understand it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Flowing Water Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The \"Flowing Water Cut\" is used when you arc struggling blade to blade with the enemy. When he breaks and quickly withdraws trying to spring with his long sword, expand your body and spirit and cut him as slowly as possible with your long sword, following your body like stagnant water. You can cut with certainty if you learn this. You must discern the enemy's grade." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Continuous Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you attack and the enemy also attacks, and your swords spring together, in one action cut his head, hands and legs. When you cut several places with one sweep of the long sword, it is the \"Continuous Cut\". You must practise this cut; it is often used. With detailed practice you should be able to understand it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fire and Stones Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fires and Stones Cut means that when the enemy's long sword and your long sword clash together you cut as strongly as possible without raising the sword even a little. This means cutting quickly with the hands, body and legs-all three cutting strongly. If you train well enough you will be able to strike strongly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "38No Design, No Co11ceptio11: \"Munen Muso\"-this means the ability to act calmly and naturally even in the face of danger. It is the highest accord with existence, when a man's word and his actions are spontaneously the same." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Red Leaves Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The RedLeavesCut39 means knocking down the enemy's long sword. The spirit should be getting control of his sword. When the enemy is in a long sword attitude in front of you and intent on cutting, hitting and parrying, you strongly hit the enemy's Jong sword with the Fire and Stones Cut, perhaps in the spirit of the \"No Design, No Conception\" Cut. If you then beat down the point of his sword with a sticky feeling, he will necessarily drop the sword. If you practise this cut it becomes easy to make the enemy drop his sword. You must train repetitively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Body in Place of the Long Sword" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Also \"the long sword in place of the body\". Usually we move the body and the sword at the same time to cut the enemy. However, according to the enemy's cutting method, you can dash against him with your body first, and afterwards cut with the sword. If his body is immoveable, you can cut first with the long sword, but generally you hit first with the body and then cut with the long sword. You must research this well and practise hitting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cut and Slash" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To cut and to slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy. Even if you slash strongly, and even if the enemy dies instantly, it is slashing. When you cut, your spirit is resolved. You must appreciate this. If you first slash the enemy's hands or legs, you must then cut strongly. Slashing is in spirit the same as touching. When you realise this, they become indistinguish able. Learn this well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Leaves Cut: Presumably Musashi is alluding here to falling, dying leaves." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chinese Monkey's Body" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Chinese Monkey's Body40 is the spirit of not stretching out your arms. The spirit is to get in quickly, without in the least extending your arms, before the enemy cuts. If you are intent upon not stretching out your arms you are effectively far away, the spirit is to go in with your whole body. When you come to within arm's reach it becomes easy to move your body in. You must research this well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glue and Lacquer Emulsion Body" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spirit of \"Glue and Lacquer Emulsion Body\"41 is to stick to the enemy and not separate from him. When you approach the enemy, stick firmly with your head, body and legs. People tend to advance their head and legs quickly, but their,body lags behind. You should stick firmly so that there is not the slightest gap between the enemy's body and your body. You must consider this carefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Strive for Height" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "By \"to strive for height\" is meant, when you close with the enemy, to strive with him for superior height without cringing. Stretch your legs, stretch your hips, and stretch your neck face to face with him. When you think you have won, and you are the higher, thrust in strongly. You must learn this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Apply Stickiness" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the enemy attacks and you also attack with the long sword, you should go in with a sticky feeling and fix your long sword against the enemy's as you receive his cut. The spirit of stickiness is not hitting very strongly, but hitting so" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cbi11eseM011key's Body, A Chinese monkey here means a short-armed monkey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glue and lacquer emulsion: The lacquer work which takes its name from Japan, used to coat furniture and home utensils, architecture, weapons and armour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "that the long swords do not separate easily. It is best to approach as calmly as possible when hitting the enemy's long sword with stickiness. The difference between \"Stickiness\" and \"Entanglement\" is that stickiness is firm and en tanglement is weak. You must appreciate this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rody Strike" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Body Strike means to approach the enemy through a gap in his guard. The spirit is to strike him with your body. Turn your face a little aside and strike the enemy's breast with your left shoulder thrust out. Approach with the spirit of bouncing the enemy away, striking as strongly as possible in time with your breathing. If you achieve this method of closing with the enemy, you will be able to knock him ten or twenty feet away. It is possible to strike the enemy until he is dead. Train well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three Ways to Parry llis Attack" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are three methods to parry a cut:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "First, by dashing the enemy's long sword to your right, as if thrusting at his eyes, when he makes an attack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or, to parry by thrusting the enemy's long sword towards his right eye with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "the feeling of snipping his neck." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or, when you have a short \"long sword\", without worrying about parrying the enemy's long sword, to close with him quickly, thrusting at his face with your left hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are the three methods of parrying. You must bear in mind that you" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "can always clench your left hand and thrust at the enemy's face with your fist. For this it is necessary to train well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Stab at the Face" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To stab at the face means, when you are in confrontation with the enemy, that your spirit is intent on stabbing at his face, following the line of the blades with the point of your long sword. If you are intent on stabbing at his face, his face" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "and body will become rideable. When the enemy becomes as ifrideable, there are various opportunities for winning. You must concentrate on this. When fighting and the enemy's body becomes as if rideable, you can win quickly, so you ought not to forget to stab at the face. You must pursue the value of this technique through training." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Stab at the Heart" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To stab at the heart means, when fighting and there are obstructions above or to the sides, and whenever it is difficult to cut, to thrust at the enemy. You must stab the enemy's breast without letting the point of your long sword waver, showing the enemy the ridge of the blade square-on, and with the spirit of deflecting his long sword. The spirit of this principle is often useful when we become tired or for some reason our long sword will not cut. You must understand the application of this method." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Scold \"Tut-TUT!\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "\"Scold\" means that, when the enemy tries to counter-cut as you attack, you counter-cut again from below as if thrusting at him, trying to hold him down. With very quick timing you cut, scolding the enemy. Thrust up, \"Tut!\", and cut \"TUT!\" This timing is encountered time and time again in exchanges of blows. The way to scold Tut-TUT is to time the cut simultaneously with raising your long sword as if to thrust the enemy. You must learn this through repetitive practice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Smacking Parry" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "By \"smacking parry\" is meant that when you clash swords with the enemy, you meet his attacking cut on your long sword with a tee-dum, tee-dum rhythm, smacking his sword and cutting him. 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 intent on quickly cutting him. If you understand the timing of smacking, however hard your long swords clash" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "together, your swordpoint will not be knocked back even a little. You must research sufficiently to realise this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "There arc Many Enemies" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "\"There arc many enemies\"42 applies when you are fighting one against many. Draw both sword and companion sword and assume a wide-stretched left and right anitude. The spirit is to chase the enemies around from side to side, even though they come from all four directions. Observe their attacking order, and go to meet first those who attack first. Sweep your eyes around broadly, carefully examining the attacking order, and cut left and right alternately with your swords. Waiting is bad. Always quickly re-assume your attitudes to both sides, cut the enemies down as they advance, crushing them in the direction from ll'hich they attack. Whatever you do, you must drive the enemy together, as if tying a line of fishes, and when they are seen to be piled up, cut them down" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "strongly without giving them room to move." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Advantage when coming to Blows" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can know how to win through strategy with the long sword, but it cannot be clearly explained in \\Hiting. You must practise diligently in order to understand how to win." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oral tradition:43 \"The true \\Vay of strategy is revealed in the long sword.\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tbere are nhrn)' enemies.- ,'\\1usashi is held to he the inventor of the Two Sword style. llis school is sometimes called \" ito Ryu\" (two sword school) and sometimes \"Niten Ryu\" (n1..•o heavens school}. I le \\1,:rites that the use of two swords is for when there arc many enemies, but people practise a style of fencing with a sword in each hand to give practical advantage in fencing. Musashi used the words \"two swords'' when meaning to use all one's resources in comhat. He never used two swords \\\\.·hen up against a skilled swords" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oral tradition, Other Kenda schools also have oral traditions as opposed to teachings" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "passed on in formal techni4ue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "One Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can win with certainty with the spirit of \"one cut\".44 It is difficult to attain this if you do not learn strategy well. If you train well in this Way, strategy will come from your heart and you will be able to win at will. You must train diligently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Direct Communication" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spirit of \"Direct Communication\" is how the true Way of the NiTo lchi school is received and handed down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oral tradition: \"Teach your body strategy.\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]
[ { "from": "human", "value": "Recorded in the above book is an outline of !chi school sword-fighting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Knowing the Way of the long sword35 means we can wield with two fingers the sword we usually carry. If we know the path of the sword well, we can wield it easily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "35 The \\Vay uf tbe Long Sword, The Way as a way of life, and as the natural path of a sword blade. There is a natural movement of the sword associated with a natural behaviour according to Kenda ethics." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you try to wield the long sword quickly you will mistake the Way. To wield the long sword well you must wield it calmly. If you try to wield it quickly, like a folding fan 36 or a short sword, you will err by using \"short sword chopping\". You cannot cut a man with a longsword using this method." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you have cut downwards with the long sword, lift it straight upwards; when you cut sideways, return the sword along a sideways path. Return the sword in a reasonable way, always stretching the elbows broadly. Wield the sword strongly. This is the Way of the long sword." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you learn to use the five approaches of my strategy, you will be able to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "wield a sword well. You must train constantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Five Approaches37" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first approach is the Middle attitude. Confront the enemy with the point of your sword against his face. When he attacks, dash his sword to the right and \"ride\" it. Or, when the enemy attacks, deflect the point of his sword by hitting downwards, keep your long sword where it is, and as the enemy renews the attack cut his arms from below. This is the first method." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The five approaches are this kind of thing. You must train repeatedly using a long sword in order to learn them. When you master my Way of the long sword, you will be able to control any attack the enemy makes. I assure you, there are no attitudes other than the five attitudes of the long sword of NiTo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the second approach with the long sword, from the Upper attitude cut the enemy just as he attacks. If the enemy evades the cut, keep your sword where it is and, scooping up from below, cut him as he renews the attack. It is possible to repeat the cut from here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "36 Folding fan.· An item carried by men and women in the hot summer months. Armoured" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "officers sometimes carried an iron war fan." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "37 Tbe Five Approaches. Who can understand Musashi's methods? It is necessary to study traditional schools and basic cutting practice. Bear in m.ind that fighting technique may start from a greater distance than it seems to at first g1ance. It is said that the man who has faced death at the point of a sword has an elevated understanding." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this method there are vanous changes in t1mmg and spmt. You will be able to understand this by training in the !chi school. You will always win with the five long sword methods. You must train repetitively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the third approach, adopt the Lower attitude, anticipating scooping up. When the enemy attacks, hit his hands from below. As you do so, he may try to hit your sword down. If this is the case, cut his upper arms(s) horizontally with a feeling of \"crossing\". This means that from the Lower attitudes you hit the enemy at the instant that he attacks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will encounter this method often, both as a beginner and in later strategy. You must train holding a long sword." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this fourth approach, adopt the Left Side attitude. As the enemy attacks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "hit his hands from below. If as you hit his hands he attempts to dash down your sword, with the feeling of hitting his hands, parry the path of his long sword and cut across from above your shoulder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the Way of the long sword. Through this method you win by parrying the line of the enemy's attack. You must research this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the fifth approach, the sword is in the Right Side attitude. In accordance with the enemy's attack, cross your long sword from below at the side to the Upper attitude. Then cut straight from above." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "This method is essential for knowing the Way of the long sword well. If you can use this method, you can freely wield a heavy long sword." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "I .cannot describe in detail how to use these five approaches. You must become well acquainted with my \"in harmony with the long sword\" Way, learn large-scale timing, understand the enemy's long sword, and become used to the five approaches from the outset. You will always win by using these five methods, with various timing considerations discerning the enemy's spirit. You must consider all this carefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The\"Attitude No-Attitude\" Teaching" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "\"Attitude No-Attitude\" means that there is no need for what are known as long sword attitudes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even so, attitudes exist as the five ways of holding the long sword. However you hold the sword it must be in such a way that it is easy to cut the enemy" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "well, in accordance with the situation, the place, and your relation to the enemy. From the Upper attitude as your spirit lessens you can adopt the Middle attitude, and from the Middle attitude you can raise the sword a little in your technique and adopt the Upper attitude. From the Lower attitude you can raise the sword a little and adopt the Middle attitudes as the occasion demands. According to the situation, if you turn your sword from either the Left Side or Right Side attitude towards the centre, the Middle or the Lower attitude results." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The principle of this is called \"Existing Attitude-Nonexisting Attitude\"." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "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 enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. More than anything, you must be thinking of carrying your movement through to cutting him. You must thoroughly research this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Attitude in strategy on a larger scale is called \"Battle Array\". Such attitudes are all for winning battles. Fixed formation is bad. Study this well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Hit the Enemy \"In One Timing\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "\"In One Timing\" means, when you have closed with the enemy, to hit him as quickly and directly as possible, without moving your body or settling your spirit, while you see that he is still undecided. The timing of hitting before the enemy decides to withdraw, break or hit, is this \"In One Timing\"." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must train to achieve this timing, to be able to hit in the timing of an instant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The \"Abdomen Timing of Two\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you attack and the enemy quickly retreats, as you see him tense you must feint a cut. Then, as he relaxes, follow up and hit him. This is the \"Abdomen Timing of Two\".\t." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very difficult to attain this by merely reading this book, but you will" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "soon understand with a little instruction." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "No Design, No Conception38" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this method, when the enemy attacks and you also decide to attack, hit with your body, and hit with your spirit, and hit from the Void with your hands, accelerating strongly. This is the \"No Design, No Conception\" cut." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the most important method of hitting. It is often used. You must train hard to understand it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Flowing Water Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The \"Flowing Water Cut\" is used when you arc struggling blade to blade with the enemy. When he breaks and quickly withdraws trying to spring with his long sword, expand your body and spirit and cut him as slowly as possible with your long sword, following your body like stagnant water. You can cut with certainty if you learn this. You must discern the enemy's grade." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Continuous Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you attack and the enemy also attacks, and your swords spring together, in one action cut his head, hands and legs. When you cut several places with one sweep of the long sword, it is the \"Continuous Cut\". You must practise this cut; it is often used. With detailed practice you should be able to understand it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fire and Stones Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Fires and Stones Cut means that when the enemy's long sword and your long sword clash together you cut as strongly as possible without raising the sword even a little. This means cutting quickly with the hands, body and legs-all three cutting strongly. If you train well enough you will be able to strike strongly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "38No Design, No Co11ceptio11: \"Munen Muso\"-this means the ability to act calmly and naturally even in the face of danger. It is the highest accord with existence, when a man's word and his actions are spontaneously the same." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Red Leaves Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The RedLeavesCut39 means knocking down the enemy's long sword. The spirit should be getting control of his sword. When the enemy is in a long sword attitude in front of you and intent on cutting, hitting and parrying, you strongly hit the enemy's Jong sword with the Fire and Stones Cut, perhaps in the spirit of the \"No Design, No Conception\" Cut. If you then beat down the point of his sword with a sticky feeling, he will necessarily drop the sword. If you practise this cut it becomes easy to make the enemy drop his sword. You must train repetitively." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Body in Place of the Long Sword" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Also \"the long sword in place of the body\". Usually we move the body and the sword at the same time to cut the enemy. However, according to the enemy's cutting method, you can dash against him with your body first, and afterwards cut with the sword. If his body is immoveable, you can cut first with the long sword, but generally you hit first with the body and then cut with the long sword. You must research this well and practise hitting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cut and Slash" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To cut and to slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy. Even if you slash strongly, and even if the enemy dies instantly, it is slashing. When you cut, your spirit is resolved. You must appreciate this. If you first slash the enemy's hands or legs, you must then cut strongly. Slashing is in spirit the same as touching. When you realise this, they become indistinguish able. Learn this well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red Leaves Cut: Presumably Musashi is alluding here to falling, dying leaves." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chinese Monkey's Body" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Chinese Monkey's Body40 is the spirit of not stretching out your arms. The spirit is to get in quickly, without in the least extending your arms, before the enemy cuts. If you are intent upon not stretching out your arms you are effectively far away, the spirit is to go in with your whole body. When you come to within arm's reach it becomes easy to move your body in. You must research this well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glue and Lacquer Emulsion Body" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spirit of \"Glue and Lacquer Emulsion Body\"41 is to stick to the enemy and not separate from him. When you approach the enemy, stick firmly with your head, body and legs. People tend to advance their head and legs quickly, but their,body lags behind. You should stick firmly so that there is not the slightest gap between the enemy's body and your body. You must consider this carefully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Strive for Height" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "By \"to strive for height\" is meant, when you close with the enemy, to strive with him for superior height without cringing. Stretch your legs, stretch your hips, and stretch your neck face to face with him. When you think you have won, and you are the higher, thrust in strongly. You must learn this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Apply Stickiness" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "When the enemy attacks and you also attack with the long sword, you should go in with a sticky feeling and fix your long sword against the enemy's as you receive his cut. The spirit of stickiness is not hitting very strongly, but hitting so" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cbi11eseM011key's Body, A Chinese monkey here means a short-armed monkey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glue and lacquer emulsion: The lacquer work which takes its name from Japan, used to coat furniture and home utensils, architecture, weapons and armour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "that the long swords do not separate easily. It is best to approach as calmly as possible when hitting the enemy's long sword with stickiness. The difference between \"Stickiness\" and \"Entanglement\" is that stickiness is firm and en tanglement is weak. You must appreciate this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rody Strike" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Body Strike means to approach the enemy through a gap in his guard. The spirit is to strike him with your body. Turn your face a little aside and strike the enemy's breast with your left shoulder thrust out. Approach with the spirit of bouncing the enemy away, striking as strongly as possible in time with your breathing. If you achieve this method of closing with the enemy, you will be able to knock him ten or twenty feet away. It is possible to strike the enemy until he is dead. Train well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three Ways to Parry llis Attack" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are three methods to parry a cut:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "First, by dashing the enemy's long sword to your right, as if thrusting at his eyes, when he makes an attack." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or, to parry by thrusting the enemy's long sword towards his right eye with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "the feeling of snipping his neck." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Or, when you have a short \"long sword\", without worrying about parrying the enemy's long sword, to close with him quickly, thrusting at his face with your left hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are the three methods of parrying. You must bear in mind that you" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "can always clench your left hand and thrust at the enemy's face with your fist. For this it is necessary to train well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Stab at the Face" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To stab at the face means, when you are in confrontation with the enemy, that your spirit is intent on stabbing at his face, following the line of the blades with the point of your long sword. If you are intent on stabbing at his face, his face" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "and body will become rideable. When the enemy becomes as ifrideable, there are various opportunities for winning. You must concentrate on this. When fighting and the enemy's body becomes as if rideable, you can win quickly, so you ought not to forget to stab at the face. You must pursue the value of this technique through training." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Stab at the Heart" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To stab at the heart means, when fighting and there are obstructions above or to the sides, and whenever it is difficult to cut, to thrust at the enemy. You must stab the enemy's breast without letting the point of your long sword waver, showing the enemy the ridge of the blade square-on, and with the spirit of deflecting his long sword. The spirit of this principle is often useful when we become tired or for some reason our long sword will not cut. You must understand the application of this method." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Scold \"Tut-TUT!\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "\"Scold\" means that, when the enemy tries to counter-cut as you attack, you counter-cut again from below as if thrusting at him, trying to hold him down. With very quick timing you cut, scolding the enemy. Thrust up, \"Tut!\", and cut \"TUT!\" This timing is encountered time and time again in exchanges of blows. The way to scold Tut-TUT is to time the cut simultaneously with raising your long sword as if to thrust the enemy. You must learn this through repetitive practice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Smacking Parry" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "By \"smacking parry\" is meant that when you clash swords with the enemy, you meet his attacking cut on your long sword with a tee-dum, tee-dum rhythm, smacking his sword and cutting him. 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 intent on quickly cutting him. If you understand the timing of smacking, however hard your long swords clash" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "together, your swordpoint will not be knocked back even a little. You must research sufficiently to realise this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "There arc Many Enemies" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "\"There arc many enemies\"42 applies when you are fighting one against many. Draw both sword and companion sword and assume a wide-stretched left and right anitude. The spirit is to chase the enemies around from side to side, even though they come from all four directions. Observe their attacking order, and go to meet first those who attack first. Sweep your eyes around broadly, carefully examining the attacking order, and cut left and right alternately with your swords. Waiting is bad. Always quickly re-assume your attitudes to both sides, cut the enemies down as they advance, crushing them in the direction from ll'hich they attack. Whatever you do, you must drive the enemy together, as if tying a line of fishes, and when they are seen to be piled up, cut them down" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "strongly without giving them room to move." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Advantage when coming to Blows" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can know how to win through strategy with the long sword, but it cannot be clearly explained in \\Hiting. You must practise diligently in order to understand how to win." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oral tradition:43 \"The true \\Vay of strategy is revealed in the long sword.\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tbere are nhrn)' enemies.- ,'\\1usashi is held to he the inventor of the Two Sword style. llis school is sometimes called \" ito Ryu\" (two sword school) and sometimes \"Niten Ryu\" (n1..•o heavens school}. I le \\1,:rites that the use of two swords is for when there arc many enemies, but people practise a style of fencing with a sword in each hand to give practical advantage in fencing. Musashi used the words \"two swords'' when meaning to use all one's resources in comhat. He never used two swords \\\\.·hen up against a skilled swords" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oral tradition, Other Kenda schools also have oral traditions as opposed to teachings" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "passed on in formal techni4ue." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "One Cut" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can win with certainty with the spirit of \"one cut\".44 It is difficult to attain this if you do not learn strategy well. If you train well in this Way, strategy will come from your heart and you will be able to win at will. You must train diligently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Direct Communication" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spirit of \"Direct Communication\" is how the true Way of the NiTo lchi school is received and handed down." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oral tradition: \"Teach your body strategy.\"" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]

[ { "from": "human", "value": "Recorded in the above book is an outline of !chi school sword-fighting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" } ]