金曜日の読書「五輪書」は「風の巻」の2回目です。この巻では前回紹介したものを含めて全部で９つの流派を批判しています。
1 長い刀を使う流派 Schools that use a particularly long large sword
2 力任せに太刀を使う流派 Schools that use the sword with brute force
3 短い刀を使う流派 Schools that use a short sward
4 多くの技をもつ流派 Schools that have a large number of techniques
5 構えを重視する流派 Schools that insist on the importance of the guard position in the art of the sword
6 いろいろな足遣いをする流派 Schools that teach various kinds of footwork
7 特殊な目つきを教える流派 Schools that teach particular ways of gazing
8 速い動作を強調する流派 Schools that stress speed
9 教え方に初心者向けと奥義を分けている流派 Schools that distinguish depth and surface
ちょっと面白そうな4,7,9を英語で見てみましょう。
4 Whatever the place and situation of combat might be, … All five are necessary…. Because you cannot perform the act of cutting a man down by pivoting, twisting, jumping or pulling back. These are entirely futile movements. In the strategy of my school,… , the essence is to defeat him in the moment when, in his mind, he is pivoting and twisting.
戦いの場のパターンがいろいろあるのに対応するのに技の数は5つあれば十分である。敵が身体をひねったり飛んだりする技を繰り出している間に切ってしまうのが我が流儀である、というのは面白いです。
7 In the way of strategy, by accumulating experiences with different opponents, you will learn the lightness or weight of the mind of each one. By practicing the way in this manner, you can see everything that is far away or close and asses the speed or slowness of the adversary’s sword. Generally, in strategy you place your gaze on the mind of your opponent.
経験を積むことで敵の心に目を据えることで心の軽重を測ることができるようになり、太刀の動きの速い遅いもわかるようになる、とのこと。
・・・深いですね
9 In my school’s teaching of strategy, you teach techniques that are easy to assimilate for those who are beginning … Observing the degree of their advancement, you progressively give them explanations that direct the toward more and more profound principle… This can be connected with the adage according to which if you continue to go deeper and deeper into the mountains, you will come out by a different entry.
assimilate 吸収する、消化する、同化する level 11 例 carbonic acid assimilation 炭酸同化作用
adage 「ア」ダッジ 金言、格言、ことわざ level 6 例 Remember the old adage, “mind over matter.” 精神は物質に勝るという古い格言を思い出しなさい。
奥義を求めていくと別の入口に出る、というのは真理ですね。熱力学と機械学習に密接な関係があるのが一つの例かもしれません。
この巻のまとめも余韻があります。
I have written succinctly about the strategy of other schools in nine sections. I mentioned neither the name nor the technique of the schools, thinking about their development in the future.
右、他流の兵法を九か条として、あらまし書き付けるところ、。。。後々迄の為に、ながれ筋ども書き残せず。
succinctly 簡潔に サク「スィ」ンクトり level 15
In my school there is neither depth nor entry for the art of the sword, and there are no fixed guard positions. The essence of strategy is solely that the mind learns virtue from it.
我が一流におゐて太刀に奥口なし。構に極りなし。唯心をもって、その徳をわきまゆる事、是兵法の肝心也。
※次回、空の巻は短いので、再来週から何を読むかを考えないといけません。次は唐の詩にするか、ドン・キホーテにするか迷っています。