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If the wind turns, row the last miles to harbor.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, Fire (Crossing the Ford)

The source

"If the wind turns, row the last miles to harbor." Miyamoto Musashi said it in The Book of Five Rings, Fire (Crossing the Ford). Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.

"若し風替りても、二里三里はろかぢをもつても港に着を心得て"

Original Japanese, The Book of Five Rings, Fire (Crossing the Ford). Japanese: Miyamoto Musashi (Kinkodo, 1909), NDL digital text.

Who said it

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645). Undefeated swordsman who wrote The Book of Five Rings in a cave a few weeks before he died.

Questions

Who said "If the wind turns, row the last miles to harbor."?
Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645). Source: The Book of Five Rings, Fire (Crossing the Ford).
What is the original Japanese?
若し風替りても、二里三里はろかぢをもつても港に着を心得て. Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.

Filed under Water.

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