It is estimated that most of my friends know Miyamoto Musashi, and they are among the kings. The real Miyamoto Musashi is much stronger than in the game, and it's no wonder that Miyamoto has been weakened and eventually become a super soldier. Well, without further ado, let's take you to know the real Miyamoto today!
Japan is a nation that advocates force and swords, and at the end of the Warring States period was an era of swordsmen.
Miyamoto Musashi was a swordsman in japan at the end of the Sengoku period and the early Tokugawa shogunate, and his influence in Japan was so great that it was said that "Sanada's (Yukimura) gun and Miyamoto's sword". He said to himself: "Yu studied swordplay since childhood, traveled all over the world, met various swordsmen, and tried more than sixty times, but never lost." "Japan is a people that advocate force and advocate swords, and although the Ming Dynasty has friction with the Japanese government and the public, it still imports a large number of swords from Japan, and from a commercial point of view, Japan's swords are equivalent to silk and tea before the Opium War in China, accounting for a considerable proportion of foreign trade."
Famous swordsmen at that time included Kojiro Sasaki, Yanagi Somon, Marume Nagae, Ito Kazukasa, and Togo Shigeru. Even Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, was known as the "Sword Shogun".
Miyamoto Musashi lived in such an environment. In the 1954 version of Miyamoto Musashi's film directed by Toshiro Mifune, this previous experience is well depicted.
"Only after experiencing the threat of death will the mind be clear. To have strength, not only for oneself, but also for the sake of others, man, God, and all things have compassion, and mortals must fear God. In addition to strength, do not ignore justice and wisdom, you think that you are invincible, only with wisdom and noble character can you be called a complete person. Life is like a battle, there is no second chance, pray for death, the outside world is endless, learn to be strong! ”
It was precisely because of his words that he was enlightened: at the age of 21, he aspired to become a martial artist. Therefore, he gave up the love and affection between him and Atong, but his heart was tied to her for ten years, and later he experienced hardships and hardships, and his footprints traveled all over the place. He won all the competitions with sixty-six masters, but he was famous for his decisive battle with Sasaki Kojiro.
The Battle of Yanliu Island was Miyamoto Musashi's most famous battle, taking place in the 17th year of Keicho (1612 AD), when Miyamoto Musashi was 29 years old.
In this decisive battle that has been passed down to future generations, Musashi is also said to have been delayed in showing his face, and Sasaki Kojiro waited from noon to the west of the sun, and was already impatient, so Musashi appeared in a small boat in front of everyone's sight.
Musashi's weapon and technique against Kojiro was not his usual "two-blade flow", but a wooden knife that was cut into a length of four feet and two inches with a paddle. This was specially prepared by Miyamoto Musashi to restrain sasaki Kojiro's three-foot-long love knife "Tokigan" (formerly known as "Captain Bizen Captain Hikaru"). And in order to increase the lethality, Miyamoto also viciously nailed a lot of nails in the knife head.
In the end, Miyamoto Musashi killed Kojiro Sasaki with a single blow. It can be seen that Miyamoto Musashi himself was a very pragmatic swordsman.
Because in fact, most Japanese swordsmen will not bring a sword sheath during the competition, and bringing a sword sheath will hinder the hands and feet. Miyamoto Musashi was the creator of the two knife streams, so he felt that the sheath of the sword was particularly important. Some people commented that Miyamoto Musashi was too treacherous in this battle and could not win the battle, but some people expressed great appreciation for Miyamoto's strategy of delaying the arrival to interfere with the opponent's mind, first psychologically defeating the enemy, and also confirming the so-called soldiers who are not tired of cheating.
Miyamoto Musashi was not satisfied with victory in kendo duels, so he devoted himself to the study of the art of war and the philosophy of kendo. He once said: "Over thirty years old, looking back on the past course, the art of war is supreme, unprecedented, because of the way of doing and not departing from heaven? Or is he a failure to catch the art of war?...... After that, exercise day and night to realize the deepest truth. If so, when I was fifty years old, I began to have the way of war. ”
At the age of 57, in the seventeenth year of Kanei (1640), Miyamoto Musashi was invited by Hosokawa Echisato, the lord of The Kumamoto Domain (present-day Kumamoto Prefecture), to formally teach swordsmanship there. In the years that followed, Musashi wrote the "Order of the Five-Party Tai Sword Road", the "Thirty-Five Solid Articles of the Art of War", and the "Book of the Five Wheels", collectively known as the "Book of the Two Days of the Art of War".
The so-called "two days" in the second-class class refers to the meaning of "two days of sunbathing", referring to the sun and the moon: that is, yin and yang, that is, symbolic opposites. The technique of the second knife is simply to unify the movements of the two knives on the left and right hands, thus achieving the purpose of defeating the opponent. The fact that this dual pole of opposites has developed from the sublimation and unity of not only swordsmanship, but even the "principle of the world", hence the name "the art of war is second-class".
In Japanese folklore, there are many legends about Miyamoto Musashi:
Legend has it that because Miyamoto Musashi often found people to duel, he made many enemies and was attacked by people many times while taking a bath. Since then, Miyamoto has made up his mind not to leave the sword and not to bathe again, and to remain vigilant at all times.
Miyamoto Musashi had been pursuing the practice of swordsmanship all his life, using kendo to reach the way of heaven and man, so he gave up meeting Atsu, he knew that he could not live an ordinary life, so he never touched women. He is a wonderful book, and his books contain a lot of life wisdom.
As someone said, he was a practitioner of life, a practitioner of his heart, a seventeenth-century kendo. Although he was born 400 years ago, his legend has deeply influenced future generations, he is the elite that shook the times, and touched countless followers of life struggle.
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