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Life of an Expert Swordsman (Japanese: 或る剣豪の生涯, Hepburn: Aru kengo no shōgai) is a 1959 samurai film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its story is an adaptation of the 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac , and its basic plot faithfully follows that of the play.
Seigen was reputed as a master of the Chūjō-ryū style of sword fighting, excelling in the kodachi art. [1] It is thought that Toda Seigen was the teacher of the famous swordsman Sasaki Kojirō.
Asano Yoshinaga. Asano Yoshinaga (浅野 幸長, 1576 – October 9, 1613) was a Japanese samurai and feudal lord of the late Sengoku and early Edo periods.His father served as one of the Go-Bugyō in the late Azuchi–Momoyama period.
Minamoto no Yoshiie (源 義家; 1039 – 4 August 1106), also known as Hachimantarō Yoshiie (八幡太郎義家) and his title Most Valorous Warrior in the Land (天下第一武勇之士), was a Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period, and Chinjufu-shōgun (Commander-in-chief of the defense of the North).
Katsumoto's anguish after the fall of the Toyotomi clan was later dramatised in kabuki theatre where Katsumoto cut a tragic figure in Hamlet's mould. In Tsubouchi Shōyō's play Kiri-hitoha, which describes the fall of the house of Toyotomi, Katsumoto, the main character, is a faithful servant with good intentions and keen sense of reality but rendered powerless caught in the whirlwind of ...
Sessai Chōrō (雪斎長老) (died 1557) or Imagawa Sessai, also known as Taigen Sessai (太原雪斎), was a Japanese abbot and mountain ascetic ().He was an uncle of Imagawa Yoshimoto, and served him as military advisor and as commander of Imagawa's forces, despite his lack of any formal battle training or experience.
It has been translated into English by Arthur Lindsay Sadler as The Code of the Samurai (1941; 1988), William Scott Wilson as Budoshoshinshu: The Warrior's Primer [1] and by Thomas Cleary. [ 2 ] Yūzan was the son of Daidōji Shigehisa (大道寺繁久), the grandson of Daidōji Naoshige ( 大道寺直繁 ) and the great-grandson of Daidōji ...
Tomoe Gozen (巴 御前, Japanese pronunciation: [5]) was an onna-musha, a female samurai, mentioned in The Tale of the Heike. [6] There is doubt as to whether she existed as she doesn't appear in any primary accounts of the Genpei war. She only appears in the epic "The tale of the Heike".