Samurai Wisdom Stories

"If you look at one leaf

You only see that.

If you don't look at any of them

the whole tree appears."

An interesting collection of short stories related to samurai and Bushido that I've had on my to-read list the longest (so far). Some were fun and funny, others were serious, but all of them had some sort of hidden meaning or lesson to learn. I think my favorite of the collection was 'Hideyoshi's Eighth Thought', if only because I could sympathize with the official who kept getting new orders from his lord just as he was about to act on them. Sometimes management do be like that.