In preparation for my classes this fall I have been doing a great deal of reading. In The Precepts of Kato Kiyomasa I found this intriguing line: Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intention should be to grasp the long and short swords and die.But a contemporary general of Kato named Kuroda Nagamasa wrote in Notes on Regulations that:The arts of peace and the arts of war are like
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