The Book of Five Rings

Wilson, Sean Michael/ Wilson, William Scott (Translator)/ Kutsuwada, Chie (Illustrator)

ISBN 10: 1611800129 / ISBN 13: 9781611800128

Published by Shambhala Pubns, 2012

About this Item

160 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # __1611800129

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Five Rings
• Publisher: Shambhala Pubns
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1611800129
• ISBN 13: 9781611800128
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Kutsuwada, Chie
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.25 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

A graphic novel retelling of the classic martial arts manifesto on swordsmanship, strategy, and winning—by the legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi
 
This graphic novel version of The Book of Five Rings, the iconic book of confrontation and victory by the famed seventeenth-century duelist and undefeated samurai Miyamoto Musashi, illuminates this brilliant manifesto, which has long inspired martial artists and anyone interested in cultivating a strategic mind.
 
With evocative drawings and a distilled but faithful text adapted by acclaimed manga writer Sean Michael Wilson, The Book of Five Rings comes alive both as a guide to swordsmanship and strategy, and as a view into Musashi’s world.

About the Author

SEAN MICHAEL WILSON is a comic book writer from Scotland, living in Japan. He has had many books published with a variety of US, UK, and Japanese publishers, such as The Book of Five Rings, and edited the critically acclaimed AX: alternative manga (Publishers Weekly’s “Best Books of 2010” in comics). In 2016, his book Lafcadio Hearn’s “The Faceless Ghost” and Other Macabre Tales from Japan was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award. And in 2017, his book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award from the Japanese Government.