By Alex

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• By Alex

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Wait, wait, whos this Musashi guy anyways???
Musashis rise to fame
Musashi the Movie! And other things
that do with Musashi
The End
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Who the heck is Musashi?
Although relatively unknown in the U.S.A.,
Musashi was a very famous Japanese swordsman who
practiced kenjutsu, the predecessor of kendo (fig
hting with fake swords), kenjutsu is
fighting 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.
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Musashi the artist
Musashi the movie
Musashi the video game
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Although Musashi was a fierce warrior, he also
was a peaceful artist, although not very famous,
some of
Musashis work still exists to today.
Examples of Musashis art
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A sculpture
A mountain
Self-Portrait of Musashi
A shrike
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MUSASHI THE MOVIE
There were many movies made about Musashi, but
one, wait, actually three stand out from the rest
. These movies are the Samurai Trilogy. Made abou
t 50 years ago, this trilogy is thought of
as the Japanese Gone With the Wind because of its
popularity in Japan. These movies are based on t
he book Musashi and chronicle Musashis life.
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Musashi seems to turn up everywhere, doesnt he?
In the videogame Brave Fencer Musashi for the
Playstation, a child with freakishly deformed ha
ir named Musashi goes on a quest, and anyways, it
s not a very good game. The game is extremely lo
osely based on the real Musashi and has a stupi
d title to boot.
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1584 saw the birth of one of the greatest
swordsmen in the known world, Miyamoto Musashi! H
aving his first fencing duel at 13, he
defeated and killed the regionally famous Arima
Kibei. After a few more years of normal life Musa
shi dueled again at 16, winning of course. A few
years later, in 1605, Musashi traveled to
Kyoto to see if there were any fencers as good as
him. Musashi challenged Yoshioka Genzaemon of the
Yoshioka family, the Yoshioka family weremartial
arts instructors for a past shogun.
Of course, Musashi won, but he spared Yoshioka
Genzaemon. That was not the end ofMusashis probl
ems with the Yoshioka family. Yoshioka Genzaemon
s relatives challenged Musashi
two more times to restore the family honor,
Musashi won the first one but the second one wasn
t a duel, but an ambush! Miraculously, Musashi s
urvived a trap of more than 80 samurai.
Musashi dueled many more times after that,
recording about 60 duels. One of Musashis last d
uels was one with Sasaki Ganryu Kojiro,
Musashi defeated Kojiro with a wooden sword
carved out of an oar. For the rest of his life, M
usashi lived in a cave and wrote his book,
Book of Five Rings.