By Alex

Wait, wait, who’s this Musashi guy anyways???

Musashi’s rise to fame

Musashi the Movie! And other thingsthat do with Musashi

The End

Who the heck is Musashi?

Although relatively unknown in the U.S.A., Musashi was a veryfamous Japanese swordsman who practiced kenjutsu, thepredecessor of kendo (fighting with fake swords), kenjutsu isfighting with real swords in life or death battles. Musashi was arguably the best swordsman in all of Japan during his lifetime.Musashi fought and won 60 kenjutsu matches and died of old age.

Musashi the artist Musashi the movie

Musashi the video game

Although Musashi was a fierce warrior, he also was a peaceful artist, although not very famous, some of Musashi’s work still exists to today.

Examples of Musashi’s art

A mountain

A sculpture

Self-Portrait of MusashiA shrike

MUSASHI THEMOVIE

There were many movies made about Musashi, but one, wait,actually three stand out from the rest. These movies are theSamurai Trilogy. Made about 50 years ago, this trilogy is thought ofas the Japanese Gone With the Wind because of its popularity in Japan. These movies are based on the book Musashi and chronicleMusashi’s life.

Musashi seems to turn upeverywhere, doesn’t he?In the videogame Brave FencerMusashi for the Playstation, achild with freakishly deformedhair named Musashi goes ona quest, and anyways, its nota very good game. The gameis extremely loosely based onthe real Musashi and has a stupid title to boot.

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1584 saw the birth of one of the greatest swordsmen in the knownworld, Miyamoto Musashi! Having his first fencing duel at 13, he defeated and killed the regionally famous Arima Kibei.After a few more years of normal life Musashi dueled again at 16,winning of course. A few years later, in 1605, Musashi traveled toKyoto to see if there were any fencers as good as him. Musashichallenged Yoshioka Genzaemon of the Yoshioka family, theYoshioka family weremartial arts instructors for a past shogun.Of course, Musashi won, but he spared Yoshioka Genzaemon.That was not the end ofMusashi’s problems with the Yoshiokafamily. Yoshioka Genzaemon’s relatives challenged Musashitwo more times to restore the family honor, Musashi won thefirst one but the second one wasn’t a duel, but an ambush!Miraculously, Musashi survived a trap of more than 80 samurai.Musashi dueled many more times after that, recording about 60 duels.One of Musashi’s last duels was one with Sasaki Ganryu Kojiro,Musashi defeated Kojiro with a wooden sword carved out of an oar.For the rest of his life, Musashi lived in a cave and wrote his book,Book of Five Rings.