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Becoming Miyamoto Musashi, the Invincible Samurai in Kumamoto
Duration
1 hour 30 minutes
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The world famous samurai “Miyamoto Musashi” is the strongest samurai in Japan, and is said to have never been defeated. Miyamoto Musashi spent his later years in Kumamoto and wrote the “Book of Five Rings” in a cave called “Reigan-do” in Kumamoto City, and completed his own style “Niten Ichiryu”.
Miyamoto Musashi has the following two features:
(1) He was a samurai that pursued artisticity. He thought that improving artisticity was important for polishing swordsmanship, and created various works of art. Ink paintings and "tsuba" (metal fittings attached to the sword) created by Miyamoto Musashi are stored at the Shimada Museum of Art in Kumamoto City.
(2) He mastered his swordsmanship to protect the house and the lord. As the times shifted from the Sengoku period, the era of war, to the Edo period, when peace was sought, he tried not only to win, but to protect. This kind of swordsmanship and spirituality are inherited as “Iaido”.
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