By Alex
Wait, wait, who’s this Musashi guy anyways???
Musashi’s rise to fame
Musashi the Movie! And other things
that do with Musashi
The End
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 (fighting 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.
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 sculpture
A shrike
Self-Portrait of Musashi
A mountain
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 about 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 the book Musashi and chronicle
Musashi’s life.
Musashi seems to turn up
everywhere, doesn’t he?
In the videogame Brave Fencer
Musashi for the Playstation, a
child with freakishly deformed
hair named Musashi goes on
a quest, and anyways, its not
a very good game. The game
is extremely loosely based on
the real Musashi and has a
stupid title to boot.
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Thanks for watching my
presentation
1584 saw the birth of one of the greatest swordsmen in the known
world, 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 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 ofMusashi’s problems 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 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.