Ah Seng Blog (Part 2): Furinkazan Japanese Cuisine Seberang Jaya

Saturday, July 23, 2022

Furinkazan Japanese Cuisine Seberang Jaya - 風林火山

There is a new opening Japanese cuisine restaurant at Seberang Jaya (formerly the buiding is belonging to 富满楼酒家 HOK MUN RESTAURANT....whereby this Chinese Cuisine Restaurant being closed down in March, 2020)

29,jalan todak 4,bandar sunway,seberang jaya, 13700 Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia

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Fūrinkazan, is a popularized version of the battle standard used by the Sengoku period daimyō Takeda Shingen. The banner quoted four phrases from Sun Tzu's The Art of War: "as swift as wind, as gentle as forest, as fierce as fire, as unshakable as mountain."

The original version of the banner is mentioned in the Kōyō Gunkan, a record of the military exploits of the Takeda clan. It is based on four phrases from Sun Tzu, which in the original Chinese appear in two consecutive passages:

Chapter 7, passage 17: "故其疾如風，其徐如林" Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your gentleness that of the forest.

Chapter 7, passage 18: "侵掠如火，不動如山" In raiding and plundering be like fire, be immovable like a mountain.

風林火山（ふうりんかざん）是日本戰國时期甲斐国將領武田信玄所使用的軍旗，旗帜上书「疾如風，徐如林，侵掠如火，不動如山」。

文字出自中國《孫子兵法·軍爭篇》：「其疾如風，其徐如林，侵掠如火，不動如山，難知如陰，動如雷震」（日语：疾（はや）きこと風の如く、徐（しず）かなること林の如し、侵掠（しんりゃく）すること火の如く、動かざること山の如し）。武田信玄在讀過《孫子兵法》後拜訪和尚快川紹喜，訴說他想設計新武田軍旗，於是從中挑選出上述的句子作為旗印。

其實風林火山旗並非武田信玄原創，早在200年前的南北朝時代，在奧州舉兵的年輕武將北畠顯家就曾經在對抗足利尊氏時使用此一旗印。北畠顯家是名門村上源氏的後代，學識非常高，深深被孫子兵法吸引。

風林火山旗的原始型式並非大家所熟悉的長方形陣旗，據甲陽軍鑑及川中島合戰圖屏風（米沢市上杉博物館藏）和武田信玄配陣圖屏風（大阪城博物館藏）中的文字和圖畫紀錄，風林火山旗應為方形黑底四行直書的陣旗。日本戰國時代中期的陣旗多為方形旗。日本至今藏有一面戰國時代晚期的長方形藍底的風林火山旗，以致多數書籍、影視作品及電玩皆引用此款式的風林火山旗，反令真正的風林火山旗湮沒無聞。

日本文學家井上靖曾以「風林火山」為題，發表以武田信玄軍師山本勘助為主角的同名小說。