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Flag of Fūrinkazan.
Fūrinkazan (風林火山?), literally "Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain", was the battle standard used by the Sengoku period daimyo Takeda Shingen, quoting chapter 7 of Sun Tzu's The Art of War: "as swift as wind, as orderly as forest, as fierce as fire, as unshakeable as mountain."
The original Chinese appears separated in two consecutive passages:
Chapter 7, passage 13: “故其疾如風，其徐如林“ Let your rapidity be that of the wind, your compactness that of the forest.
Chapter 7, passage 14: “侵掠如火，不動如山“ In raiding and plundering be like fire, be immovable like a mountain.