Budoshoshinshu - Required Readings

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

Thus, when a boy passes the age of ten, he should be instructed to read such works as the Four Books, the Five Classics, and the Seven Books, and to practise calligraphy and writing. Moreover, by the age of 15, as his physical strength increases and his health becomes sound, he should learn archery and horsemanship. These should be one's basic intentions in bringing up a child of a warrior in times of peace.

Budoshoshinshu - Daidoji Yuzan - 1730
www.cjp.fi/liikan/liikan-jitsu/classic-extracts/warriorcode-budoshoshinshu/yuzan1.html

William Scott Wilson explains:

Four Books

• The Great Learning
  
• The Doctrine of the Mean
  
• The Analects
  
• The Mencius
  

Five Classics

• The Book of Changes
  
• The Book of Documents
  
• The Book of Poetry
  
• The Book of Rites I II
  
• The Spring and Autumn Annals

Seven Books (A list of Chinese Military Classics - are these the same to which Daidoji referred?)

• Sun Zi Bing Fa (Sun Tzu's Art of War)
  
• Huang Shi Gong San Lue (3 Strategies of Huang Shi Gong)
  
• Si Ma Bing Fa (Sima's Rules of War)
  
• Wu Zi Bing Fa (Wu Zi's War Strategies)
  
• Wei Liao Zi Bing Fa (Wei Liao Zi's Strategies For War)
  
• Jiang Tai Gong Liu Tao (6 Strategies for War)
  
• Tang Tai Zong, Li Wei Gong Wen Da Lu (Wisdom of Tang tai Zong & Duke Li of Wei)
  From www.bingfa.info/
  

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

I was able to find many of these available online under Chinese Classics at Sacred Texts:
www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/index.htm

I have linked these translations above.

There are other translations available if you search around the net.

[Otagiri Tatsuzou]

:happy anniversary: