Speaking of Miyamoto Musashi, perhaps some people have not heard of it before, but with the promotion of various film and television dramas and games, it should now be a character that everyone knows; and when it comes to Miyamoto Musashi, many people first think of "Japan's first master" and "Japanese sword saint"; and Miyamoto Musashi's resume is indeed very dazzling, and he has never lost a single duel more than sixty times in his life.
Moreover, Miyamoto Musashi also created two martial arts schools, "Yuanming Stream" and "Second Heaven First Class", which were truly amazing. However, throughout Miyamoto Musashi's life's achievements, in fact, there are very few who win by pure sword skills, and most of them are carefully arranged to win with wisdom, such as Miyamoto Musashi's famous battle - the duel of Iwaguchi Island.
Before the duel on Iwakushi Island, Miyamoto Musashi was just an unknown swordsman, while his opponent Kojiro Sasaki was already a world-famous swordsman. Kojiro Sasaki was a disciple of the famous swordsman Tomita Shigen, who later learned Nakajō from the swordsman Nakamaki, and after the beginning of his swordsmanship, he traveled to various countries in order to continue to improve his martial arts, and founded his own school, the Iwabayashi school.
It is said that this Sasaki Kojiro uses a famous knife named Captain Hikari Bizen, this blade is three feet and two inches (that is, about 98 centimeters), because the sword body is quite long, so the attack range is very large; Sasaki Kojiro based on the characteristics of this knife, combined his sword skills, created a unique move called "Yan Hui", it is said that even the flying swallows in the sky can not fly out of its attack range, and everything is two.
Although it is not known how Sasaki Kojiro accepted the challenge of such an unknown swordsman as Miyamoto Musashi, it actually happened; it was supposed to be a thrilling fight, but the result was jaw-dropping. Kojiro Sasaki was quite conceited about his martial arts, so he arrived at Iwaki Island (Kokura Island), the site of the decisive battle.
The two sides originally agreed that the time of the confrontation was noon, but they did not expect that Miyamoto Musashi would not show his face for a long time, and seeing that the sun had turned west, Miyamoto Musashi appeared in the sight of everyone leisurely in a small boat. He also constantly uses psychological tactics to verbally stimulate Sasaki Kojiro. Finally, he took out an overweight (supposedly four feet two inches long) wooden sword against Sasaki Kojiro.
If that's all there is to it, Miyamoto Musashi also occupies a geographical position to use the sun to shake Sasaki Kojiro's eyes so that Sasaki Kojiro can't see himself. It can be said that everything Miyamoto Musashi did was entirely aimed at Sasaki Kojiro; he did not feel any psychological burden of bullying a senior over sixty years old (Miyamoto Musashi was supposed to be about twenty or thirty years old at the time).
In short, in the end, Sasaki Kojiro was defeated and died of his wounds, while Miyamoto Musashi became famous in the war. However, according to the martial arts genre created by Miyamoto Musashi later, he rarely talked about swordsmanship, but basically talked about how to use the environment and psychology to create an advantage, and then defeat his opponents. Therefore, many people think that Miyamoto Musashi is not so much a swordsman as a martial artist.
His sword skills are not evaluated, but his understanding of the art of war and Zen Tao should be extremely deep; and he also integrates the art of war and Zen Tao into his sword skills. The lord of Kumamoto Castle, Hosokawa Tadaotoshi, invited Miyamoto Musashi to move to Kumamoto Castle to teach the art of war, during which time he began to write works related to the theory of the art of war, calling it "the art of war second-class".
In general, Miyamoto Musashi may not have had enough talent in kendo, but he was really smart, he gave up the traditional way of fighting and integrated the art of war into his kendo; perhaps many people think that Miyamoto Musashi is not victorious, or simply say that he is despicable; but as long as he can win, who cares how he operates?
But no matter what, Sasaki Kojiro is still a pity, became the stepping stone of Miyamoto Musashi, and this is also the end of the traditional Japanese samurai, after the Japanese samurai, the spirit of Bushido is completely absent, all kinds of despicable and despicable tricks emerge in an endless stream, and even there are combat methods that throw sand to confuse the other side's vision; it can be said that the rise of Miyamoto Musashi means the end of traditional Bushido.