Question What is this sentence ?

[Alan69]

Hello,

What is exactly this sentence ?

https://zupimages.net/up/20/23/gc3r.jpg

Especially how translate this one in the more exact romaji form ?

 

[Toritoribe]

Where did you get it from? In what context is it used?

 

[Alan69]

In a book about art of war or about the name of a kind of strategy

 

[Toritoribe]

What are the sentences preceding or following it?

 

[Alan69]

Nothing following. Preceding it seems a quotation of SunTsu about spy.

 

[Alan69]

There's some characters :
XXXX本X(固?)XXX傳

 

[Toritoribe]

Can you give us the preceding parts?

 

[Alan69]

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。

 

[Majestic]

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.

The Art of War (Sun)/Section XIII - Wikisource, the free online library

en.wikisource.org

 

[Megumigumi]

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

Kouza

I don't know what the sentence means, but probably Toritoribe can read it.

 

[Alan69]

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 ?

 

[Majestic]

Sue wo taete, moto wo kataku suru den

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

wo = を/ヲ

 

[Toritoribe]

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.