Miyamoto Musashi facts for kids
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Quick facts for kids Japanese name |
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| Kanji | 宮本 武蔵 | ||||
| Hiragana | みやもと むさし | ||||
| Katakana | ミヤモト ムサシ | ||||
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Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584 – June 13, 1645), was also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku. He was a Japanese Samurai and rōnin. Even from a young age Musashi became well known for his excellent swordsmanship and won some sixty duels. He always had money and had a number of other rōnins as followers. Musashi is best known as the author of The Book of Five Rings. It is a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy. The book is very popular in modern Japan and the western world among successful business people.
Images for kids
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The Miyamoto Musashi Budokan in Ōhara-chō (Mimasaka), Okayama prefecture, Japan
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Miyamoto Musashi story.
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Miyamoto Musashi's grave in Ōhara-chō, province of Mimasaka
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Miyamoto Musashi kills a shark fish (Yamazame) in the mountains across the border of Echizen Province, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
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Calligraphy by Musashi
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Miyamoto Musashi Budokan located in Ōhara-chō, Mimasaka province where Miyamoto Musashi was born on March 12 of the Tenshō era.
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Sasaki Kojiro (right) engages Miyamoto Musashi on the shores of Ganryū Island.
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"Seishin Chokudo" (earnest heart, straight way) monument dedicated to Miyamoto Musashi, located in Kokura. These characters were engraved by Musashi on his bokken. It stands on the place where Musashi is supposed to have lived, at the foot of the castle. The Hombu dojo of a main branch of Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryū is in Kokura and demonstrates every year in front of this monument.
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Miyamoto Musashi,a Self-portrait
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Shrike in a barren tree, by Miyamoto Musashi
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Statue of Hosokawa Tadatoshi within Suizen-ji Jōju-en
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Mon of the Hosokawa clan
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Mon of Tokugawa Shogunate
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Statue of Miyamoto Musashi à Ōhara-chō.
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Statue of Musashi & Kojiro Battle
