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Post by MaCi{QAW} on Apr 18, 2007 15:55:04 GMT -5
Is anyone wondered by this kind of books?
My favourite is The book of the 5 rings by the samurai Miyamoto Musashi. Do you know any other interesting book of this kind?
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Post by J_Bourne{QAW} on Apr 18, 2007 17:55:36 GMT -5
The Art of War by sun tzu. It's Chinese, not Japanese but its THE classic of military books.
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Post by JiMinY{QAW} on Apr 18, 2007 19:35:54 GMT -5
::looks over at bookshelf::
You should start with Heike Monogatari (Tale of Heike), Various Complilers
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Genji Monogatari (Tale of Genji), Murasaki Shikibu
The second one has considerably less ass kicking, but it is still a classic, must-read kind of book.
Anyway, I reccomend you look into Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong), which is Chinese and extremely good. Don't be thrown by the title: it just means that it is a romance on (fictionalization of) the Three Kingdoms (a classic Chinese history). I quote:
"We have just rescued this menial in a bloody fight," cried he, "and now he is rude to us! Nothing but his death can slake my anger."
"Happily, Sir, your son is unhurt," said Zhao as he drew him forth and presented him in both hands. Xuande took the child but threw it aside angrily, saying, "To preserve that suckling I very nearly lost a great captain."
If you liked 5 Rings, you really should like Romance of the Three Kingdoms. You would also probably like another Chinese classic, Water Margin / All Men Are Brothers / Outlaws of the Marsh (all titles are the same book), Shi Naian. It can be pretty brutal.
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Post by J_Bourne{QAW} on Apr 18, 2007 22:05:16 GMT -5
Jiminy got him da Asian fever.
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Post by Bone{QAW} on Apr 18, 2007 23:32:50 GMT -5
hey jimi, did u just read english translations or you read the chinese also? how were the translations for those 2? (every time i see the name the water margin, i think of song jiang, and it pisses me off)
anyways, art of war is such an awesome book, if i remember correctly, jimi was gonna quote from it every week/month, and apply the strats in et...
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Post by JiMinY{QAW} on Apr 18, 2007 23:51:53 GMT -5
Yeah I did that roughly twice before deciding it was too time consuming.
No, I read the English - they are a couple thousand pages each, and if I read them in Chinese it would take me ... a freaking long time.
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Post by Ivanhoe{QAW} on Apr 19, 2007 6:15:38 GMT -5
in some part of my life i read a lot of haiku, cos it was something i found amasing: to put so much feelings and pictures in so little words. (sorry for misspelling but i have no strength to look at dic.)
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Post by Ivanhoe{QAW} on Apr 19, 2007 11:12:54 GMT -5
i am little off these days
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Post by Dire.Wolf{QAW} on Mar 21, 2008 11:16:21 GMT -5
look for the book, watch the movie: "The Seven Samurai" 1954, takes place around 1587/88
the story and plot structure is what many stories have been built on ever since
about the movie (from wikipedia) Seven Samurai is frequently described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made...It is the subject of both popular and critical acclaim; it was voted onto Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1982 and 1992, and remains on the director's top ten films in the 2002 poll.
Seven Samurai was among the first films to use the now-common plot element of the recruiting and gathering of heroes into a team to accomplish a specific goal...(also a common plot device in role-playing game adventures)...introducing the main hero with an undertaking unrelated to the main plot...other plot devices such as the reluctant hero, romance between a local girl and the youngest hero, and the nervousness of the common citizenry had appeared in other films before this but were combined together in this film
The single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry
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