Sword Saint Miyamoto Musashi (Immortal Legend of a Generation of Japanese Sword Saints)

【Media Comments】

　　★ I hope that through this book, we can awaken the sensitive, impetuous, and weak modern people, and find the strong spiritual outlook, dreams and sincere pursuit of life that our ancestors had. --Hideharu Yoshikawa

　　★ Miyamoto Musashi was not only a sword, but also a sword god. The revelation of this book goes beyond the orthodox classics and beyond the so-called martial arts novels in general. - Bai Yang

　　★ Mr. Eiji Yoshikawa describes that in the face of tempered people and lives, there is no foolish superstition and unfairness about fate, but focuses on how to improve and self-improvement in difficulties, does not compromise with people's weakness, and has a healthy sense of trust in people's solid tenacity. - Jin Yong

　　★ The chapter "Peony Messenger" in "Sword Sacred Miyamoto Musashi" I think is a wonderful martial arts scene that has never been written in all Chinese martial arts novels. "Sword Sacred Miyamoto Musashi" expresses Musashi's indomitable spirit of perseverance and perseverance. After reading the Chinese translation, I also thought that this book had great appeal. - Jin Yong

　　★ Eiji Yoshikawa's work is like an altar of aged wine, and the longer it lasts, the more mellow it becomes. Of all the works, this work has spent almost twenty years of Yoshikawa's painstaking efforts, * can not fail to read - it makes people in adversity have a sense of belonging, but also makes people in good times wash away the dust of their hearts after reading it. --Nebula Master

　　★ I think Miyamoto Musashi may have been a Japanese who thought thoroughly about pragmatism. ——Hideo Kobayashi (Japanese literary critic)

　　★ "The masses are great knowledge" is the belief of Mr. Hideharu Yoshikawa. It is no wonder that his works have a readership of "middle school to old people, from civilians to university professors", and can touch the "heart of the masses". --Daisaku Ikeda

　　★ Miyamoto Musashi's choice of kendo for his lifelong practice may be difficult for ordinary people to understand, but his Battle of Iwakuyama and many of his practices will always be enjoyed. This serious attitude towards life can be called a thorough kendo practitioner. --Lin Gufang (Zen, musician, cultural critic)

　　★ Every time I shoot Miyamoto Musashi, I learn something new from the original. --Hiroshi Inagaki (famous Japanese director and one of the founders of early Japanese cinema)

　　★ When I read The Sword Shrine Musashi as a young man, I felt that it had a lot in common with the Bible. --Shigego Kuroiwa (Naoki Prize-winning writer)

　　★ Among Mr. Eiji Yoshikawa's works, I was fascinated by "Sword Sacred Miyamoto Musashi". For those of us young people at that time, "Sword Sacred Miyamoto Musashi" was not only a literary work for appreciation, but also taught us how to face the crises and challenges encountered in the process of growing up. --Tsunadechi Kending (Naoki Prize-winning writer)

　　★ For me, Sword Sacred Miyamoto Musashi is the story of fulfilling my teenage dream of entering the adult world. --Kaoru Furukawa (Naoki Prize-winning writer)

　　★ Mr. Eiji Yoshikawa's works have three pillars: "flesh and blood love", "impermanence" and "seeking the tao". The masterpiece "Sword Saint Miyamoto Musashi" perfectly interprets the tenet of Mr. Yoshikawa's life. - Masazo OGANI (critic, winner of kikuchi Hiroshi Award)

　　★ After reading "Sword Saint Miyamoto Musashi", you will understand the reason why it is selling well in Japan. - Publishers Weekly

　　★ Sword Shrine Miyamoto Musashi is a work full of charm. - The Atlanta Charter

　　★ Sword Shrine Miyamoto Musashi, a touching heroic novel. —The Washington Post

　　★ Sword Shrine Miyamoto Musashi tells a dramatic story. - The Philadelphia Gazette

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【About the Author】

　　Eiji Yoshikawa (1892-1962)

　　Japanese writer, winner of the Mainichi Art Prize, the Asahi Culture Prize, and the Kikuchi Hiroshi Award, and was awarded the Cultural Medal for outstanding contributions.

　　Known as the "Literature of a Million People", the complete works were published repeatedly after his death and were regarded as classics by generations. Representative works include "Sword Saint Miyamoto Musashi" and "Shinhei Family Story".

【Content Appreciation】

　　Sword Shrine Miyamoto Musashi. The second series" is a trial reading

　　Excerpt from The 4 Empty Scrolls – The Guiding Mother's Staff

Five

With a real knife! The old woman must have been taken aback after hearing Musashi's words. "Wait a minute!" She said suddenly from the side. But at this time, Musashi and Kwonnosuke's momentum was already difficult to shake with such a sentence alone.

Kwon's wooden stick was clamped under his armpit, as if absorbing all the essence of the plateau, only for a roar to burst out, while one of Musashi's hands was attached to the sword's protective hand, and his eyes were directly pierced in the eyes of the other party. The two were already fighting together inside, and the confrontation of eyes had won the battle of swords and sticks. First suppress the momentum of the opponent with your eyes, and then follow them with weapons such as sticks or knives.

"Wait a minute!" The old woman shouted again.

"What?" In response, Musashi stepped back four or five feet.

"You said you were going to use a real knife?"

"Nice. Whether you use a wooden knife or a real knife, the next competition is the same. ”

"I'm not stopping you from using a real knife."

"Now that you understand, the knife is fair... Once in hand, there will be no more five or seven points of mercy, otherwise there will only be one way to escape. ”

"Of course. But that's not what I'm blocking. It just occurred to me that such an important contest, if you don't disclose your name, you will regret it afterwards. ”

"Well, it makes sense."

"I'm not real, but no matter which side you look at, the other side is a rare opponent, which is completely a kind of dust. Kwon Nosuke, you first report your name. ”

"Yes." Kwon Nosuke performed a straight salute and said, "According to legend, the ancestor's name was Taifu Fang Jueming, under Lord Nogi Tsang. After the death of Lord Ranmuzeng, kyaw Ming became a monk and entered the Fa Ran shangren's door, under the lower or for his family. Over the years, he has been passed down as a commoner, but his father was insulted when he was alive, and he felt very sorry, so he made an oath with his mother to visit the Mitake Shrine and swore that he would stand out in martial arts. Therefore, this staff technique, which was enlightened before the gods, called itself a 'dream stream', and people called for help in the right to dream. ”

When he had finished his briefing, Musashi also returned the salute, saying, "A branch of Akamatsu in Shimo-no-bo prefecture, the descendant of The Hirata Shogun, lives in Mimasaka Miyamoto Village, the son of Miyamoto Nojisai, named Musashi." Nor are there any relatives. Even if you devote yourself to martial arts, you will die under your staff, and you don't need to bother to collect corpses under them. After the briefing, he added, "Come on! ”

Musashi stood up again, and Kwon nosuke regained his grip on the stick and replied, "Come on! ”

Six

At this time, the old woman sitting under the pine tree did not seem to even breathe. If it is a disaster from heaven, there is nothing to say, but this is his own initiative to send to the door, it is his own son sent to the blade of others. This is a psychology that ordinary people can't understand, but this old mother is calm and self-assured. No matter what others say, she has a firm belief. I saw her sitting firmly under the tree, her shoulders slightly inward, her hands folded upright on her knees. I don't know how many children she has given birth to, how many children have died, and the flesh that has been suffering in poverty is so thin and dry.

However, just as Musashi and Kwonnosuke were facing each other a few feet apart, with a "Come on", the moment the end of the battle was about to open, the old woman's eyes immediately emitted a dazzling light, as if the gods and Buddhas between heaven and earth were all gathered in her eyes, spying on the scene in front of her. Her son had exposed his fate to Musashi's sword. At the moment when Musashi's blade came out of its sheath, Kwon Nosuke seemed to understand his fate, and his whole body was suddenly cold.

Hey, how about this guy... Kwon Nosuke instantly felt something strange. The enemy in front of you is completely different from the last time you fought behind your house. If he were to use calligraphy as an analogy, the last time he saw only Musashi's cursive, he thought that Musashi could only cursive, but today when he saw Musashi's meticulous italics, he found that he had made a careless mistake and misjudged the enemy. Due to the inferior momentum, the wooden stick that was full of confidence and beat hard last time could only be held stiffly above his head today, and he could not even make a roar.

At this moment, the fog of the word plain gradually faded, and a bird was leisurely flying over the hazy mountain in the distance. syllable! The air between the two suddenly chirped. It was a completely invisible vibration, and it seemed that even the birds would be shaken off. Whether this movement is the sound of a wooden stick hitting the air or a knife in the atmosphere seems to be unclear, just as it is unknown in Zen as the so-called "how the sound of a hand is" in Zen. Not only that, the five bodies and weapons of the two sides are integrated, and it is difficult to see them with the naked eye alone. syllable! In a fraction of a second from the eye to the eye and then from the visual transmission to the brain, the position and posture of the two people have completely changed.

Kwon Nosuke swung the stick, but did not hit it. Musashi raised his hand, and the blade swept upwards from Kwon's waist, and although it was also deflected, it was almost skimmed from Kwon's right shoulder against his sideburns. As a unique feature of Musashi's sword method, when the sword is cut empty, it will always turn back like a pine leaf. Just under the blade of his rebound, I don't know how many opponents have lost their lives. As a result, Kwon nosuke did not have the time to give Musashi a second blow, and he could only hold Musashi's sword at the end of the stick at both ends.

Boom! Suddenly, the stick sounded on Kwon's help. Usually when the white blade and the wooden stick collide, the stick will be broken in two, but if the blade is not cut diagonally, it will not be so. Therefore, the side that fights is naturally also aware of it. Raising his stick horizontally, Kwon nosuke stabbed his left elbow at Musashi's hand, while his right elbow curled up slightly, slamming the end of the stick into Musashi's heart, while catching a knife that Musashi had slashed. However, the knife was caught, and this life-fighting move was not successful. At the moment when the stick and knife were bitten into a cross above his head, there was still an inch or so of space between the end of the stick and Musashi's chest.

Seven

If you are eager to get rid of the other party, the anxious side will be defeated in an instant. If it is a knife-to-knife, it can still be called a parity, but now one side is a knife, and the other side is a wooden stick. The wooden stick has no handguard, no blade, no blade and handle, but at another angle, the four-foot round rod is all blades, all blades, and all handles. If used well, the ever-changing nature of the stick is by no means comparable to that of a knife. If you use the sixth sense of the knife to speculate on the other party's moves, the result will be unimaginable. Because the wooden stick not only has the function of a knife, but also has the function of a short spear. Musashi was unable to draw his knife out of the rod and knife that had been broken into a cross because he could not predict its changes.

As for the power to help the party, not to mention. His wooden stick was pressed against his head by Musashi's knife and he was passive. Mo said that as long as the attention of the whole body was slightly distracted, Musashi's sword would take the opportunity to push and immediately smash his head. Although Kwon Nosuke was inspired by his meditation in Mitake and learned the true meaning of the staff technique, he is still in a dilemma. His face grew pale, he bit his lower lip, and the corners of his erect eyes also flowed with sticky oil sweat. The rod on his head rose and fell like a wave like a cross formed by the knife, and Kwonnosuke below breathed heavier and thicker.

That's when it happened. Her face was even paler than Kwon's, and the old woman who had been staring at both sides by the pine tree suddenly shouted, "Kwon-no-suke!" In the instant of screaming, the old woman undoubtedly forgot her own existence. Only to see her raise her waist at once, while desperately tapping, while scolding her son: "Waist! As soon as he finished scolding, he vomited blood, and one of the toes fell straight forward.

At this moment, the rod and knife, which could not be separated even if they were turned into stones, suddenly burst out with more amazing force than when they were bitten together, and snapped apart. This power comes from Musashi. He retreated from a distance of no means two or three feet. I don't know whether it was the left heel or the right heel, but the reaction of the planing-like pedaling made him move back more than seven feet. But Kwon Nosuke immediately leapt over and approached with a four-foot wooden stick.

"Ah!" Musashi managed to pull the stick aside. As soon as he turned from death to attack, Kwon Nosuke was thrown away by Musashi and suddenly planted in front of him in a posture of rushing to the earth, naturally exposing his empty back to Musashi's eyes. Musashi is like a hayabusa in the face of a strong enemy, with its hair standing upside down. A rain-like flash immediately slashed at Kwon's back. Whew! With a calf-like groan, Kwon Took three more steps forward and fell straight to the ground, while Musashi covered his chest with one hand and sat in the grass. "Lost!" Someone shouted, it was Musashi.

Kwon Nosuke had no voice.

Eight

Kwon Nosuke threw himself at him and didn't move for half a day. Seeing this situation, the old woman also fainted. "I hit it with the back of a knife." Musashi reminded her of this, but she still couldn't get up. "Quick, feed him water." Your son should not have been injured anywhere. ”

"Huh?" The old woman then raised her head, looking suspiciously at The Help of Power, and sure enough, as Musashi said, the son was not blurred with flesh and blood. "Oh!" She stumbled and pounced on her son, feeding water, calling names, and shaking desperately, and Kwon Nosuke finally woke up. Seeing Musashi sitting there dazedly, he suddenly stepped forward and knelt on the ground. "I lost."

Musashi turned back to God, hurriedly shook his hand, and said, "No, it wasn't you who lost, it was you who lost." "He said and lifted the placket and showed his heart to the two of them." The blow of the stick left a red mark. If you use some more force, I am afraid that I will have died a long time ago. As he spoke, Musashi was also dazed. How he had been hit by this blow, he really couldn't understand. Kwon noSuke and the old woman also looked at the red spots on his skin and could not speak.

Musashi closed his shirt and asked the old woman. Why did you shout "waist" just now, because you saw that Kwon Nosuke's waist was empty, and then he involuntarily shouted?

The old woman replied, "It's a shame." The dog just held your knife with a wooden stick, and he was out of breath and unable to move his feet. Retreat is also dangerous, sudden is also dangerous, and it is at the end of the road. In the process of watching from the sidelines, even my wife, who knew nothing about martial arts, saw that it was empty. All his attention is drawn to your knife, so he binds himself. Since I only think about how to draw my hands or make a surprise attack, I naturally don't notice these flaws. If the body does not move, the hands do not move, as long as the waist is lowered a little, the end of the wooden stick can naturally pound the opponent's chest... Thinking of this, I cried out involuntarily. ”

Musashi nodded. I am really grateful for this opportunity and benefited myself a lot.

Kwon Nosuke also listened in silence. He no doubt understood something. This is not the dream of the god of Mitake, but the truth of the reality that the mother was born from the great maternal love when she witnessed the danger of her son's dying. As a farmer, Kwon-no-suke was later known as "Dream Right-no-Suke" and became the ancestor of the Dream Flowing Staff Technique. His heirlooms contain the secret art of "one hand of the guide mother", which details the mother's great love and the whole process of the competition with Musashi, but he never mentions "defeating Musashi". Throughout his life, he told the world that he had lost to Musashi and had always regarded failure as precious.

Gossip aside, when Musashi and the mother and son separated and left Izuhara and were on their way to the area around Suwa, a samurai suddenly appeared on the road. "Is there a man named Musashi on this road?" He should have come here. The samurai kept asking for the stopping horsemen or the travelers who came and went, and they chased after them.

【Introduction】

Sword Shrine Miyamoto Musashi. The second series of content introduction: The famous Japanese writer Eiji Yoshikawa wrote a long martial arts novel for 20 years, and the panorama shows the legendary life of A generation of sword saint Miyamoto Musashi. Miyamoto Musashi is a japanese household name and legend. He practiced hard, devoted himself to seeking the Tao, created his own "second-class" kendo school, realized the supreme realm of "sword Zen as one", and grew from a reckless and ignorant teenager to a generation of sword saints. There are two volumes of the Sword Sacred Palace Musashi, which is the second series, a total of three volumes, namely the Empty Scroll, the Second Heaven Scroll, and the Yuanming Scroll.

4 Empty Scrolls: Miyamoto Musashi was on his way to Edo when he inadvertently settled down in the desolate code. Musashi put down his sword and took up his hoe to reclaim the land while teaching the villagers to expel the bandits. He regarded the rocks, wind and rain, and the violent nature as opponents, and regarded the vast land as the perfect dojo for cultivation. Gradually, his heart became clear: the realm of martial arts is not to conquer opponents, but to rule the world and the people.

5 Two Days Scroll: Miyamoto Musashi came to Edo, and his name became blazing. While watching the Kagura performance, Musashi was drunk on the head, and gradually learned the martial arts from drumming, and his cultivation became more and more refined. He was recommended and approached his career, but his martial-based political ambitions suffered many hardships. Musashi was not frustrated, but realized the realm of enlightenment in which both culture and martial arts were taking place.

6 Yuanming Scroll: Martial arts is practice, never ending. Miyamoto Musashi continued his practice in seclusion in the mountains, growing older, but falling into a vortex of inaction. He went to the high monk Yutang Zen Master and sought guidance from the Dharma. In the midst of pitching heaven and earth, in the passage of time, Miyamoto Musashi finally broke through the bottleneck of sword and mental method and reached the realm of martial arts and humanization.