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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 ...
Miyamoto Usagi is also featured in Samurai Warrior: The Battles of Usagi Yojimbo. Usagi's first appearance in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus, based on his appearance in the 2003 animated series. He was a combatant in the game's Battle Nexus mode, but was not a playable character.
Japanese tradition is to decorate the room of a newborn baby boy with Kintarō dolls on Children's Day (May 5) so that the child will grow up to be strong like the Golden Boy. A shrine dedicated to the folk hero lies at the foot of Mount Ashigara in the Hakone area near Tokyo. Nearby is a giant boulder that was supposedly chopped in half by the ...
Most significantly, the main character's name, Miyamoto Usagi, is a play on "Miyamoto Musashi", Japan's most famous historical samurai and the author of The Book of Five Rings, and Usagi the Japanese language word for "rabbit" (The story notes for one volume also cite as an influence Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy, which features Miyamoto ...
More foreign tourists than Japanese people approach him. [3] Miyamoto is ambidextrous but usually favors his left hand, which is why his characters Mario and Link were designed to be left-handed. [142] Miyamoto spends little time playing video games in his personal time, preferring to play the guitar, mandolin, and banjo. [143]
featuring Miyamoto Usagi and the crew of the Space Ark issue #23 Jul/1990 The Way of the Samurai: issue #24 Sep/1990 Lone Goat and Kid: issue #25 Nov/1990 The Bridge: issue #26 Jan/1991 The Dual: issue #27 Mar/1991 My Lords Daughter: issue #28 May/1991 Circles part 1. Winds over the Tombstones. issue #29 Jul/1991 Circles part 2. Remembrances ...
Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings. Boston: Shambhala Publications Inc. The Book of Five Rings has been published in English multiple times. The Thomas Cleary translation is the most widely available and has been reprinted multiple times. A translation by William Scott Wilson is aimed towards practitioners of Japanese classical swordsmanship.
View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.