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  2. Musashi (novel) - Wikipedia

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    It is a fictionalized account of the life of Miyamoto Musashi, author of The Book of Five Rings and arguably the most renowned Japanese swordsman who ever lived.. The novel has been translated into English by Charles S. Terry, with a foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer, published by Kodansha International under ISBN 4-7700-1957-2.

  3. The Book of Five Rings - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Many translations have been made, and it has garnered broad attention in East Asia and throughout the world.

  4. Miyamoto Musashi - Wikipedia

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    Musashi gives his full name and title in The Book of Five Rings as Shinmen Musashi-no-Kami Fujiwara no Harunobu (新免武蔵守藤原玄信). [7] His father, Shinmen Munisai (新免無二斎) was an accomplished martial artist and master of the sword and jutte (also jitte ). [ 6 ]

  5. Niten Ichi-ryū - Wikipedia

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    The original title for leaders of Musashi's school were called "Sōke," which translates to leader of the family. The Sōke title was done away with by Imai Masayuki in 2003. [5] Terao Kyumanosuke (Motomenosuke) had received the complete transmission of the School of Musashi, with certification and Musashi's two swords.

  6. Dokkōdō - Wikipedia

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    The "Dokkōdō" (Japanese: 獨行道) ("The Path of Aloneness", "The Way to Go Forth Alone", or "The Way of Walking Alone") is a short work written by Miyamoto Musashi a week before he died in 1645. It consists of 21 precepts.

  7. Vagabond (manga) - Wikipedia

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    Vagabond (Japanese: バガボンド, Hepburn: Bagabondo) is a Japanese epic martial arts manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue.It portrays a fictionalized account of the life of Japanese swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, based on Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi.

  8. Samurai Trilogy - Wikipedia

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    Samurai I won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.. In a review almost 60 years after the release of the trilogy, the late academic and film critic Stephen Prince noted "the absence of gore" in the films: "Severed limbs and spurting arteries hadn't yet arrived as a movie convention, and the fights in The Samurai Trilogy are relatively chaste, not showing the carnage that such ...

  9. Miyamoto Musashi in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The PlayStation game Brave Fencer Musashi and its PlayStation 2 sequel Musashi: Samurai Legend are based on Musashi. In the first game, Musashi must obtain the Five Scrolls of Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, and Sky and obtain the sword Lumina to seal away the evil Wizard of Darkness and later duels his rival Kojiro at the Dragon Island.