Sublime

Avant toute chose, Musashi était un esprit libre. S’il entretenait d’excellentes relations avec nombre d’honorables clans, il est cependant notable qu’il évita toujours de se mettre au service d’un unique daimyō. De surcroît, contrairement à ses contemporains, il était anti-conformiste en ce qu’il n’entretenait pas cette tradition séculaire chez le

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”

The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa, translated by Charles S. Terry.

While not a samurai, Jigoro trained in martial arts and became well known for his meticulous recording of the jujutsu techniques he deemed most effective. He described his work as “keeping what I felt should be kept, and discarding what I felt should be discarded.”