The name of miyamoto Musashi is believed to be very familiar to many friends, whether it is in the artistic processing of later generations, or the shaping of its image in various works such as film and television games, we need to make it clear that Miyamoto Musashi is not a fictional character, he is a real person in history.
Today, I will introduce this Miyamoto Musashi to learn more about the story of this swordsman from the island country.
Miyamoto Musashi was a Japanese swordsman, warrior, and artist from the end of the Sengoku period to the early Edo period. He became famous for his duel with Kojiro Sasaki. In his later years, he was born in the Hosokawa family. There are swordplay books "Bing Dao Mirror", the art of war theory works "Five Wheels Book", "Five Fangs of the Tai Dao Dao Sequence", and "Thirty-five Solid Articles of the Art of War".
The sword in the hands of the samurai is also the soul in their hearts, and Miyamoto Musashi's swordsmanship is very unbelievable, he has never learned swordsmanship from a teacher, it is all his own thinking and design, coupled with the painstaking training and study in practice, which makes his swordsmanship famous at that time and even in later generations.
When he himself described swordsmanship, he once said that the clear water of the lake was like a clear mirror reflecting everything, and he thought that only the empty sword was the most brilliant swordplay.
Miyamoto Musashi's swordsmanship already has another advanced realm, he believes that when two people face each other, victory and death are on the same line, so in addition to having good swordsmanship, a person must also have a normal heart, and the ordinary heart can not only make himself wait calmly, but also emit the power of the whole body in a split second. Miyamoto Musashi's swordsmanship was enormous at the time, he had dueled with various swordsmen at a very early age, and he had never lost a single duel in more than sixty duels, which showed that his swordplay level had been able to surpass many people in a long time.
In Miyamoto Musashi's book The Book of Five Wheels, Miyamoto Musashi describes himself as having defeated the "Shindō-ryo" Arima Kibei in his first duel at the age of 13, and went to Kyoto at the age of 21 to fight martial artists from various countries, from the age of 13 to 29, more than 60 duels, without losing a single hand.
These victories of Miyamoto Musashi often reflect the ideological characteristics of the Sengoku kendo masters who "do whatever they want". Among them, Miyamoto Takeru's duel with Yoshioka Kazuo and his battle of Yanliu Island with Sasaki Kojiro reflect this idea and characteristic.
Kiyoshirō Yoshioka and Yoshioka Denjuro, who competed with Miyamoto Musashi, were both good at "Kyohachi". Miyamoto Musashi first challenged Kiyoshirō Yoshioka in 1605, the first year of Miyamoto Musashi's ascension to kyo. The two meet in a duel at Rentaino, just outside Kyoto, where Kiyoshiro Yoshioka is knocked down by Miyamoto Musashi with a wooden knife and dies. Kiyoshirō's younger brother, Yoshioka Denchirō, in order to avenge himself, was dueled in the ruins of the suburbs. However, after the agreed time of the competition, until dark, Musashi's figure was still missing, and Chuanqilang could only suppress his anger and wait in the snow. After Denchiro had been standing in the snow for a long time, his hands and feet stiffened, Miyamoto Musashi suddenly appeared on the second floor of the ruins behind him. Chuanqiro hurried upstairs, only to be easily killed by Miyamoto Musashi due to stiffness in his hands and feet, coupled with the unstable breath of running to the second floor.
Later, Yoshioka Ichimon mobilized more than 70 people for revenge. As a result, after Miyamoto Musashi killed his leader, he slipped away unharmed among more than 70 people.
The Battle of Yanliu Island with Kojiro Sasaki is even more classic.
Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro meet for a decisive battle on Kokura Island (Yanliu), and Miyamoto Musashi deliberately arrives late, upsetting Kojiro. In the decisive battle, Miyamoto Musashi wielded a blade longer than the opponent (he bought an oar from a nearby shiphouse, cut it into a long knife for more than four feet, and the wooden knife that absorbed the water in the water was of higher quality, and the damage was greater), and turned his back on the sun, using the sunlight to charm Sasaki's line of sight, killing Kojiro, and then leaving the scene without leaving a footprint on the beach.
Miyamoto Musashi's achievements are due to his distinctive swordsmanship, which is to hold a sword in both hands when fighting. The left hand is a knife (Miyamoto Musashi is left-handed), and the right hand is written as a threat to protect the length and shortness, which is unexpected.
Throughout his life, Miyamoto Musashi did not achieve his goal of being a Chiseki Ryūrō or a 2,000-stone Shiro's family elder, but his fame made him feel free to eat and clothe, and there was no shortage of followers around him. In his later years, Miyamoto Musashi was discouraged or saw through the red dust, and he accepted three hundred stones of support rice from the Hosokawa clan of the Kyushu daimyō, and an old-fashioned house. After living in seclusion in Kyushu, he began to write the Book of Five Wheels, which was regarded as a martial arts classic in later generations.
In 1645, Miyamoto Musashi died with regret at the age of sixty-two.