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Miyamoto, Musashi

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Miyamoto, Musashi (c. 1584–1645)

Japanese samurai. His manual on military strategy and sword fighting, Gorinsho/The Book of Five Rings (1645), became popular in English translation in 1974 in the USA as a guide to business success.

In Japan, Miyamoto Musashi is popular as the hero of a long historical novel that glamorizes his martial-arts exploits and has been the basis for a series of films and comic books. The historical Miyamoto was a painter as well as a fencer, and spent his life travelling Japan in search of Zen enlightenment.



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