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Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵), born Shinmen Takezō (新免 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), [1] also known as Miyamoto Bennosuke and by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, [2] was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 ...
Hyohō Niten Ichi-ryū (兵法 二天 一流), which can be loosely translated as "the school of the strategy of two heavens as one", is a koryū (ancient school), transmitting a style of classical Japanese swordsmanship conceived by Miyamoto Musashi.
Zatoichi (Japanese: 座頭市, Hepburn: Zatōichi) is a fictional character created by Japanese novelist Kan Shimozawa.He is an itinerant blind masseur and swordsman of Japan's late Edo period (1830s and 1840s).
Katanagatari is the story of Yasuri Shichika, a swordsman who fights without a sword, and Togame, an ambitious young strategist who seeks to collect 12 legendary swords for the shogunate. Shichika is the son of an exiled war hero and the seventh head of the Kyotouryuu school of fighting who lives on the isolated Fushou Island with his elder ...
[1] [5] Though Kohei is old, he is still a skilled swordsman. [6] Daijirō Akiyama (秋山 大治郎, Akiyama Daijirō) : Kohei's son [1] who manages school of swordplay. Oharu (おはる, Oharu): Kohei's wife. She is 40 years younger than Kohei. [7] Mifuyu Sasaki (佐々木 三冬, Sasaki Mifuyu) Okitsugu Tanuma (田沼 意次, Tanuma Okitsugu)
Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection, known in Japan as Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- Seisōhen (Japanese: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚- 星霜編, "Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story – Time"), is a Japanese original video animation (OVA) which serves as a sequel to the 1996–1998 anime television series Rurouni Kenshin, an adaptation of Nobuhiro Watsuki's 1994 ...
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (Japanese: るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-, Hepburn: Rurōni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Roman Tan-) [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki.
Blade of the Immortal (Japanese: 無限の住人, Hepburn: Mugen no Jūnin, lit. ' The Inhabitant of Infinity ') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroaki Samura. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from June 1993 to December 2012, with its chapters collected in 30 tankōbon volumes.