Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi,a Self-portrait

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584 – June 13, 1645), was also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku. He was a Japanese Samurai and rōnin. Even from a young age Musashi became well known for his excellent swordsmanship and won some sixty duels. He always had money and had a number of other rōnins as followers. Musashi is best known as the author of The Book of Five Rings. It is a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy. The book is very popular in modern Japan and the western world among successful business people.

Miyamoto Musashi
Japanese name
Kanji	宮本 武蔵
Hiragana	みやもと むさし
Transcriptions - Romanization Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi Media

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  The Miyamoto Musashi Budokan in Ōhara-chō (Mimasaka), Okayama prefecture, Japan

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  Statue of Miyamoto Musashi (Gleizé) (宮本武蔵像 (グルエーズ)).

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  Sasaki Kojiro (right) engages Miyamoto Musashi on the shores of Ganryū Island.

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  Gorinto dedicated to Sasaki Kojiro in Musashi Temple (Ohara).

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  "Seishin Chokudo" (earnest heart, straight way) monument dedicated to Miyamoto Musashi, located in Kokura. These characters were engraved by Musashi on his bokken. It stands on the place where Musashi is supposed to have lived, at the foot of the castle. The Hombu dojo of a main branch of Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryū is in Kokura and demonstrates every year in front of this monument.

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  Miyamoto Musashi's grave in Ōhara-chō, province of Mimasaka

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  The grave-marker of Miyamoto Musashi, in present-day Kumamoto Prefecture (熊本県)

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  Miyamoto Musashi kills a shark fish (Yamazame) in the mountains across the border of Echizen Province, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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  Miyamoto Musashi in his prime, wielding two bokken; woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi