Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

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I Shall Taunt You: Musashi, seeing a battle as beginning before the actual fight, does this. He was famous for it in real life.

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I suppose it's interesting to get a perspective on a VERY different culture, but half the time I couldn't fathom any conceivable logical or moral reason why the characters would be doing what they were doing, and this only got worse as the book went along. All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them. Yagyu Sekishusai (former Muneyoshi) – aging master of the Yagyu style of swordsmanship, lord of Koyagyu fiefEntretenido primer volumen de una de las clásicas novelas niponas de samurais. Algunas partes enganchan más que otras, pero por lo general mi visión del libro es muy positiva. Estoy ansioso por leer el resto de volúmenes. However, he is more valuable than material history by creating his own school of two-handed combat using long (katana) and short (wakizashi) swords, which no one had done before him. The theoretical justification of this practice is the "Book of the Five Rings". Also, his frequent use of short swords as throwing weapons is considered a precursor to ninja shurikens. I know that I am in the minority regarding these opinions, but this book just wasn't for me. The fact that it took me 9 months to listen to it says enough, it wasn't what I wanted it to be and I know that's on me. I don’t now Japanese literature and culture well enough, but I get the impression that, as a consequence, he also created a new genre of Japanese literature. I see all sorts of familiar tropes here, characters and themes I recognize out of Saturday morning karate movies by way of Kurosawa. In some ways, this is the blueprint for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, complete with the hero who follows the way of the sword, his chaste lover, and the old crone who’s sworn vengeance on him.

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Aoki Tanzaemon (aka Scraggy Beard) – an official of the Tokugawa government, the representative of Lord Terumasa in Miyamoto, Jotaro’s father Musashi proves it does. In a society where the strongest warriors are kings, Musashi--arguably the strongest samurai that has ever lived--walks through the world as a beggar. He doesn't take advantage of his skills to wine and whore, neither to make money and fame. Instead he's focused and pure. His sole goal is to walk the path of the sword with all his heart until the very end, to face the strongest and become the most powerful samurai in Japan, to beat the game and find out what's waiting for him on the other side.Having finished this, it feels like I've been on an epic journey. It was an intimidatingly long book, but after six months or so I'm finally done. Este es sólo el primer volumen de una saga de aventuras que describe las costumbres, creencias y formas de vida de este Japón de guerreros y monjes. After The Spreading Pine, though, the book is not as cohesive. In almost every chapter new characters are introduced. Even the final two chapters introduce new characters. And the characters are rarely developed much, so they are hard to visualize, hard to remember.