Literary and Military Arts

The four-character idiom 文武両道 signifies one who is skilled in both the "sword and the pen", that is, one who is skilled in both the martial arts and the literary arts. The archetype being Miyamoto Musashi who was Japan's greatest swordsman and also a master calligrapher. 文武両道 is composed of the kanji 文 (read bun) meaning "art; literature", 武 (read bu) meaning "military; arms; chivalry", 両 (read ryou) meaning "both; two" and 道 (read dou) meaning "the way; teachings".