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Musashi Miyamoto (Japanese: 宮本 武蔵, Hepburn: Miyamoto Musashi), born Shinmen Takezo (新免 武蔵, Shinmen Takezō), is the protagonist of Takehiko Inoue's manga series Vagabond. Seeking strength from a young age, Takezo involves himself in several battles, regardless of danger.
Vagabond won the Grand Prize for manga at the fourth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2000. The following is an excerpt from the speech congratulating Takehiko Inoue: "From Toyotomi to Tokugawa. Musashi Miyamoto grew up amidst the turn of two great eras. Mr. Inoue has taken the powerful Musashi who was sometimes called a 'beast' and drawn him as a ...
This is a list of chapters for the Japanese manga series Vagabond, 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 .
武蔵 MUSASHI (2003). Kabuki actor Ichikawa Shinnosuke VII (now Ichikawa Ebizō XI) held the lead role as the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, whose lives spanned the end of the sengoku and the beginning of the Edo periods. The series was based on the Yoshikawa Eiji novel that forms the basis for most modern fiction based on the events of Musashi's ...
Takehiko Inoue (井上 雄彦, Inoue Takehiko, born 12 January 1967) is a Japanese manga artist.He is best known for the basketball series Slam Dunk (1990–1996), and the jidaigeki manga Vagabond, which are two of the best-selling manga series in history.
The manga series Vagabond is loosely based on Musashi, with protagonist Takezō later renamed Miyamoto Musashi and seeking to become the greatest swordsman in the land. The Necromancer , the fourth installment in Michael Scott's The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, refers to Niten.
Musashi, a 1935 novel by Eiji Yoshikawa; Musashi's, a Japanese feline musical group; Musashi, a 1974 manga written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki; Brave Fencer Musashi, a 1998 PlayStation video game; Musashi: Samurai Legend, a 2005 PlayStation 2 video game; Vagabond (manga), a 1998 manga by mangaka Takehiko Inoue
Musashi no Ken received the 1984 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga. [4] The manga was adapted as a 72-episode anime television series by Eiken. The manga was also adapted into a Famicom platform game called Musashi no Ken – Tadaima Shugyō Chū (六三四の剣 ただいま修行中, lit. ' Sword of Musashi - Now in the Middle of ...