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Question What is this sentence ?

Where did you get it from? In what context is it used?
 
In a book about art of war or about the name of a kind of strategy
 
What are the sentences preceding or following it?
 
Nothing following. Preceding it seems a quotation of SunTsu about spy.
 
There's some characters :
XXXX本X(固?)XXX傳
 
Can you give us the preceding parts?
 
Nothing following. Preceding it seems a quotation of SunTsu about spy :

間事未發而先聞者,間與所告者皆死。
 
Drawing blanks. The Japanese doesn't seem to make sense.
末ヲ絶ラ本ヲ固リスル伝(傳)
The quote from Sun Tzu is easy enough to find (line 19 below in Chinese/English translation), but there is nothing following the Sun Tzu quote that looks remotely like the Japanese phrase originally posted.
 
Hi,

I just found this website.

You can see the sentence under 木村家伝
・末ヲ絶テ本ヲ固クスル伝


I don't know what the sentence means, but probably Toritoribe can read it.
 
I think the sentence is something like that :
"This tradition is/is named : "cut off the tips for consolidate the origin" ."
According to you, what is the better way to read/write the most exactly this sentence in romaji ?
 
Sue wo taete, moto wo kataku suru den

(Not 100% sure. Waiting for Toritoribe-san's validation.)

wo = を/ヲ
 
I think the sentence is something like that :
"This tradition is/is named : "cut off the tips for consolidate the origin" ."
Your interpretation is correct in meaning, but speaking strictly, it's not a sentence but a noun phrase like "tradition - cutting off ~". Sorry for nitpicking.

Interestingly, it denies SunTsu in the preface.

Sue wo taete, moto wo kataku suru den
It's "Sue wo tachite" since を shows that 絶 is transitive. I agree with the rest.
 
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