Sword and Pen

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More from Donohue, the chapter entitled "Void":

The feudal Japanese, with a dominant class
of warriors, developed a tradition that, in part,
emphasized the potential that martial training
had for human development. They came to believe
that the high standards and fidelity to form and
principle found in martial training were not, in
a spiritual sense, different from those embodied
in more scholarly and "refined" activities. Hence
the widely known saying *bun bu ichi*--the way of
the pen and the way of the sword are the same.