The sword saint Miyamoto Musashi in the glory of the king is real in history, he was a famous warrior, swordsman, and thinker in the Warring States period of Japan (roughly in the early Qing Dynasty in China), and his annotation of the "Book of Five Wheels" is still a guide book for Japanese people in all aspects of philosophy, management, and even movement. Miyamoto Musashi founded nichi-ichi (Japanese samurai master pays attention to stream, stream is the genre) kendo, and has fought more than sixty duels in his life, and it is difficult to defeat. From a violent teenager to a generation of masters, Miyamoto Musashi's life has been written as a story blueprint for countless novels, movies and television series. Among them, Mr. Eiji Yoshikawa, known as the Japanese Jin Yong, wrote "Miyamoto Musashi - Sword and Zen", which is the most legendary.
kendo
Before we get to know Miyamoto, let's first understand what kendo is. Japanese people love to use swords, and the Japanese samurai sword is also one of the cultural symbols of Japan. Miyamoto also uses knives, from single to double, but why is Miyamoto called a swordsman and not a swordsman? Essentially, this is a bias caused by different definitions of knives in different cultures. In Chinese martial arts, the sword is double-edged, the knife is single-edged, the sword master pierces, and the knife master slashes. There are many kinds of sword techniques, pay attention to dexterity and agility, the knife method is thick and simple to just fierce, in order to increase the strength of the slash and the lethality at the same time, the back of the knife also needs to be supplemented with steel thickening. This kind of large knife has never appeared in Western history, and they collectively call the Chinese big knife sword (sword), and later also translated as blade (blade).
As for the Japanese sword, it is mainly influenced by the Tang sword, and there are still two Tang swords enshrined in the Shosoin Temple in Nara, Japan, one called the Gold and Silver Tang Dao, and the other called the Water Dragon Sword. However, due to some reasons of the system and materials, the Japanese knife cannot reach the hardness of the Tang knife, the curvature is relatively unique, it is a machete system, and it is impossible to be as strong as the Chinese knife method in use. In this regard, the Japanese sword method is closer to the sword method, more dexterous to use, called the sword more accurate, the only feature that does not conform to the sword is that there is no double blade. In addition, the sword has always been considered a dangerous thing, which is not very auspicious for the cultivation gentlemen of the great elegance, so it is still said that the sword is more gentle and soft.
According to the shape and size, the Japanese knife can be divided into a knife, a knife, a knife (rib finger), a short knife, etc., and the knife is often paired with a knife or a knife around the waist, which is a spare weapon and is not usually used. Miyamoto created the second knife flow, "two knives" means tai knife and coercion, the left hand threatens the main defense and raid, the right hand tai knife main attack and confusion, the king glory of Miyamoto opened the big move after the first-class two days of double knife form is derived from this.
Miyamoto became famous
Miyamoto, who had been instructed by his father as a child, was an authentic nomako player, but he defeated Arima Kibei of the "Shindō-ryo" in his first duel at the age of 13, and defeated Akiyama, a warrior of The Japanese empire, at the age of 16. The teenager Miyamoto and his friend HonjiTa yuhachi fled to their hometown after the defeat of the army, and then they were lured by the widow of the wind and tyranny halfway through the way, and since then they have been mistaken for a lifetime of jealousy and hatred. As a defeated soldier, Miyamoto returned to his hometown to be hunted by shogunate soldiers, and in the conflict, Miyamoto, who had just raped and killed several people, fled back to the mountains.
The Void Monk Sawa-an transforms Miyamoto and captures him, hanging him under a thousand-year-old cedar tree to let the wind and rain temper his stubborn disposition. Ato, the fiancée of Ato, is heartbroken after being abandoned by Aohachi, only to find that the man who fell on the tree is the one he has entrusted all his life. So he secretly released Miyamoto and wanted to exile him to the end of the world. Atomoto was an infatuated woman who has been pursuing Miyamoto all her life, but Miyamoto has gone farther and farther in pursuit of the unity of sword and Zen.
The captured Miyamoto was imprisoned in the Keige cabinet full of literary scripts for three years, and Miyamoto, who was supplemented by a wide range of books, was completely angry. Miyamoto, who was not in a hurry to understand the true kendo, embarked on the path of cultivation. But Miyamoto was too powerful to look like a samurai at this time. At the Nara Okzoin Temple, the gun master was killed; the Kyoto Battle of Yoshioka's boxing faction, Rentai Terano first killed the head of kiyoshirō; the thirty-three halls then defeated Kiyoshirō's brother Nobuchirō; and finally the entire Yoshioka dojo was about to fight Miyamoto, and at Ichijoji Temple, he had to face a seventy-three-on-one duel, Musashi deliberately arrived late and took full advantage of the terrain, quickly killing Yoshioka's 14-year-old young lord and then immediately withdrew, and the Yoshioka family was destroyed. The brutal killings also provoked the resentment of many prestigious figures in Japan's Bushido.
At this time, Miyamoto chose to return to nature and return to the hidden mountain forest, cultivating the land to fight against the torrent and teaching the mountain people to fight against thieves. This proximity to nature made the world of Miyamoto, who had previously felt to be useless, suddenly become incomparably vast and awe-inspiring. All the previous killings were shameful even mentioning swords, Taos, and the like. However, Miyamoto lost himself in his attempt to chase the great enlightenment, and after abandoning the worldly and lustful, the state of inaction made people very upset. Fortunately, thanks to the guidance of the Zen master, everything in the world is round, there is no end, no twists and turns, no exhaustion, no confusion. But after cutting, everywhere is the end. It is a circle, and the heavens and the earth are also round. In one person's life, do not mistakenly pick leaves and find branches, increase troubles in vain, everything is good as it should be, and everything before is nothing more than branches and leaves. As long as you see the sexual sincerity and look back, it is the Spirit Mountain.
So Miyamoto set off again. In previous duels, in order to survive, Miyamoto had unconsciously used his double knife against his opponent, but he had never been able to do it. At one point, I watched the drummers play music. Miyamoto Maosei suddenly opened. The drums are slow, broken, and urgent, and the left and right are struck in turn, left and right, right and left, both intentional and unintentional, completely a state of freedom. Miyamoto finally understood the Upanishads of the Double Sword, and in the duel between Iga and the famous lord Ofso, Iga and the famous suzema, stabbed into Shido's chest with the threat of his left hand and won. Miyamoto, who fears his opponents, fears everything, and unites his sword, has since declared a great shock.
A lifelong enemy dueling with Iwakusa Island
This caused the jealousy and dissatisfaction of Kojiro Sasaki, who had always regarded Musashi as his lifelong enemy. Unlike Musashi's Noroko, Sasaki Kojiro was an authentic master, first under the tomita Ryumon of Tomita Goro's right guard, and then with his hometown of Iwakuni hermit Oshumiya, Hokuyasu, who passed on the technique of rapid sword drawing. But both genres belong to the normal-sized Taikoku stream, Kojiro loves the Daidai knife more, and the family heirloom "clothes drying pole" sword is one person tall. Kojiro immersed himself in the study of the sword method, often practicing the sword chopping flying swallow, and combining the swallow return knife method of quickly drawing the sword, chopping the swallow, and collecting the knife, and created the rock school that used the Big Tai Sword. Speaking of Tsubame, everyone must be very familiar with it, isn't this the stunt of Tachibana Right Kyo in the Glory of kings, yes, one of the prototypes of Tachibana Right Kyo is Sasaki Kojiro.
Kojiro is tall (176cm, tall among Japanese), handsome (neither he nor Musashi shaved the ugly head of the Japanese samurai Tsukiyo, but had his forehead hair), but he was arrogant, narrow-minded, and empty-eyed. In duels, after repeatedly defeating opponents, he gradually came to prominence and served the Hosokawa Pan family as the head of the samurai (800,000 forbidden army gods?). Leopard head Lin Chong? ）。 A pair of Lao Tzu is the world's first mentality of Kojiro, naturally can not tolerate Musashi's infinite scenery.
A duel is inevitable. The two sides dueled at noon on a small island that was undisturbed. At the stipulated moment, Musashi once again did not appear in time, and on the way to the duel in a leisurely boat, Musashi carved a wooden knife with a broken oar, as long as a clothes drying pole, and immersed it in water, and an extra heavy wooden knife was enough to deal with Sasaki Kojiro.
Miyamoto's deliberate tardiness completely angered and disturbed Kojiro's mind, and he quickly drew his sword and threw its sheath into the waves to meet Miyamoto. Miyamoto provoked Kojiro again with the words that the winner should not easily throw away the sheath of the sword. Kojiro's large knife slashed at Miyamoto like the wind, but Miyamoto was not in a hurry to make a move, and instantly shifted to a position with his back to the sea to confront Kojiro. The sunlight was strongly reflected by the sea water into Kojiro's eyes, and in an instant, Miyamoto jumped up high, and the wooden knife of the boat slammed into Kojiro's brain, and Kojiro fell. Miyamoto, who has swords in everything, defeats Kojiro who has swords in everything. To commemorate the battle, The island was renamed Iwaki Island and a statue of the duo fighting was erected on the island.
If there is a one-on-one duel in the open and upright, it is not easy to say which is stronger or weaker. Whether it was an earlier duel at Ichijō-ji Temple or at Iwakugawa Island, Musashi deliberately arrived late to chaos his opponent's mind, and then skillfully used external conditions to kill his opponent. Miyamoto defeated Kojiro with his sword as he did with the art of war and Zen. In this way, we can also say that Kojiro's sword technique has indeed not reached the realm of sword-Zen unity, otherwise he would not have been restless.
The good wind, with its strength, sent me to the clouds. Miyamoto gave up the two knife streams he had created and used wooden knives carved from the oars to fight the enemy, and Kojiro's blind response did fall into the inferiority of the art of war. The winner is the king, the loser is the king, as long as the duel can be won, it seems that there is nothing wrong with this. Otherwise, the current Japanese sword saint would be Kojiro Sasaki, right?