Fūrinkazan
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thumb|Fūrinkazan banner is a popularized version of the battle standard used by the Sengoku period daimyō Takeda Shingen. The banner quoted four phrases from Sun Tzu's The Art of War: "be like a wind in a rapid march, a woods in a steady march, a fire in a raid, a mountain in a standoff."
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- Original version
- Four-character version
- Use in popular culture
- See also
- Notes
thumb|Fūrinkazan banner is a popularized version of the battle standard used by the Sengoku period daimyō Takeda Shingen. The banner quoted four phrases from Sun Tzu's The Art of War: "be like a wind in a rapid march, a woods in a steady march, a fire in a raid, a mountain in a standoff."
==Original version== The original version of the banner is mentioned in the Kōyō Gunkan, a record of the military exploits of the Takeda clan. It is based on four phrases from Sun Tzu, which in the original Chinese appear in two consecutive passages:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fūrinkazan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.