Sasaki Kojiro (right) engages Miyamoto Musashi on the shores of Ganryū Island. Arima was said to have been arrogant, overly eager to battle, and not a terribly talented swordsman. Kihei attacked with a wakizashi, but Musashi threw Kihei on the floor, and while Kihei tried to get up, Musashi struck Arima between the eyes and then beat him to death. So when the time set for the duel arrived, Dorin began apologizing for Musashi, who merely charged at Kihei with a six-foot quarterstaff, shouting a challenge to Kihei.
Kihei was adamant that the only way his honour could be cleared was if Musashi apologized to him when the duel was scheduled. Dorin, Musashi's uncle, was shocked by this, and tried to beg off the duel in Musashi's name, based on his nephew's age. A messenger came to Dorin's temple, where Musashi was staying, to inform Musashi that his duel had been accepted by Kihei. In 1596, Musashi was 13, and Arima Kihei, who was traveling to hone his art, posted a public challenge in Hirafuku-mura. The main source of the duel is the Hyoho senshi denki ("Anecdotes about the Deceased Master"). At the age of twenty-one I went up to Kyōtō and fought duels with several adepts of the sword from famous schools, but I never lost.Īccording to the introduction of The Book of Five Rings, Musashi states that his first successful duel was at the age of 13, against a samurai named Arima Kihei who fought using the Kashima Shintō-ryū style, founded by Tsukahara Bokuden (b. At the age of sixteen I defeated a powerful adept by the name of Tadashima Akiyama, who came from Tajima Province. My opponent was called Arima Kihei, a sword adept of the Shinto ryū, and I defeated him. I have trained in the way of strategy since my youth, and at the age of thirteen I fought a duel for the first time. Another story claims that he never took a bath because he did not want to be surprised unarmed. Musashi's eczema developed in his infancy, and this adversely affected his appearance. " Fujiwara" was the lineage from which Musashi claimed descent. As for "Musashi", Musashi no Kami was a court title, making him the nominal governor of Musashi Province. Hirata was relied upon by Lord Shinmen and so was allowed to use the Shinmen name. Munisai, in turn, was the son of Hirata Shōgen (平田将監), a vassal of Shinmen Iga no Kami, the lord of Takayama Castle in the Yoshino district of Mimasaka Province. His father, Shinmen Munisai (新免無二斎) was an accomplished martial artist and master of the sword and jutte (also jitte).
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Musashi gives his full name and title in The Book of Five Rings as Shinmen Musashi-no-Kami Fujiwara no Harunobu (新免武蔵守藤原玄信). he lived in Miyamoto village, in the Yoshino district. Niten Ki (an early biography of Musashi) supports the theory that Musashi was born in 1584: " was born in Banshū, in Tenshō 12, the Year of the Monkey." The historian Kamiko Tadashi, commenting on Musashi's text, notes: "Munisai was Musashi's father . Musashi himself simply states in The Book of Five Rings that he was born in Harima Province. The details of Miyamoto Musashi's early life are difficult to verify. The Miyamoto Musashi Budokan training center, located in Ōhara-chō ( Mimasaka), Okayama prefecture, Japan was erected to honor his name and legend. The Book of Five Rings deals primarily with the character of his Niten Ichi-ryū school in a concrete sense, i.e., his own practical martial art and its generic significance The Path of Aloneness, on the other hand, deals with the ideas that lie behind it, as well as his life's philosophy in a few short aphoristic sentences.
He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū, or Nito Ichi-ryū, style of swordsmanship, and in his final years authored The Book of Five Rings ( 五輪の書, Go Rin No Sho) and Dokkōdō (獨行道, The Path of Aloneness).īoth documents were given to Terao Magonojō, the most important of Musashi's students, seven days before Musashi's death. Musashi, as he was often simply known, is considered a Kensei, a sword-saint of Japan. 1584 – 13 June 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin, who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai). Takemura Yoemon Terao Magonojō Terao Motomenosuke Furuhashi Sōzaemon Niten Dōraku Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Harunobu Harima Province or Mimasaka Province, Japan
Contemporaneous portrait of Miyamoto Musashi (Edo period)
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