Furinkazan

In Japanese, "furinkazan" means "wind, forest, fire, mountain." Like Chinese proverbs, the whole in this case is much greater than the sum of its parts. Furinkazan actually refers to the motto painted on the battle standards of Takeda Shingen, a Sengoku period daimyo who quoted (partially) Sun Tzu's Art of War when he decided to focus on the first four of Sun Tzu's maneuver recommendations:

"Swift like the wind"
"Silent like a forest"
"Aggressive like fire"
"Unmovable like a mountain"
"Mysterious like a shadow"
"Move like a trembling of a thunder"

Quite the nice imagery, no? I have to admit, when I first started this post I was going somewhere with it, but now I don't remember why anymore. Woe to me for not updating more often :( In any case, I think this goes very well with my posts with Japanese themes (i.e. my post on Hokusai and Project Gutenberg)