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A contraction of the slogan on daimyō Takeda Shingen's army banner, 「疾如、徐如、侵掠如、不動如, originally from Sun Tzu's The Art of War.

  • (Tokyo) うりんかざん [fùúríńkáꜜzàǹ] (Nakadaka – [5])
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟ːɾʲĩŋka̠zã̠ɴ]

(ふう)(りん)()(ざん) (fūrinkazanふうりんくわざん (fuurinkwazan)?

  1. (military) "wind-forest-fire-mountain", a military strategy that's based on the premise of being "as swift as the wind, as silent as the forest, as fierce as the fire, as firm as the mountain"