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	Musashi Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami, Shimōsa, and Shimotsuke Provinces.
		Musashi was the largest province in the Kanto region.
		Edo Castle was the headquarters of Tokugawa Ieyasu before the Battle of Sekigahara and became the dominant city of Japan during the Edo period, being renamed Tokyo during the Meiji Restoration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Musashi_Province (158 words)

	Provinces of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Provinces as part of the system of addresses were not abolished but, on the contrary, augmented.
		Provinces are nonetheless today considered obsolete, although their names are still widely used in names of natural features, company names, and brands.
		Some of the province names are used to indicate distinct parts of the current prefectures alog with their cultural and geographical characteristics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_provinces_of_Japan (806 words)

	A Book of Five Rings - Concerning the life of Miyamoto Musashi
		Musashi waited concealed in the shadows, and just as they were thinking that he had thought better of it and had decided to leave Kyoto, he suddenly appeared in the midst of them, and cut the boy down.
		Musashi writes about the various aspects of Kendo in such a way that it is possible for the beginner to study at beginner's level, and for Kendo masters to study the same words on a higher level.
		Musashi's life study is thus as relevant in the twentieth century as it was on the medieval battleground, and applies not just to the Japanese race but to all nations.
	www.samurai.com /5rings/transintro/life.html (2712 words)

	Musashi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The master swordsman and author known as Miyamoto Musashi, who wrote the famous Book of the Five Rings.
		The novel Musashi about the famous Japanese swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa.
		The battleship Musashi of the Imperial Japanese Navy, named after the province.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Musashi (151 words)

	The Samurai Trilogy (1967)
		Musashi wrote his name on the challenge and the challenge was accepted.
		Dorin tried to beg off in Musashi's name, but Kihei insisted that the only way Kihei's honor could be cleared was if Musashi apologized to him at the time the duel was scheduled.
		Musashi was injured by a thrown rock while scouting in the front line.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/samuraitrilogy1967.html (849 words)

	Miyamoto Musashi
		The famed swordsman Miyamoto Musashi was born Shinmen Takezo in Harima Province and may have fought at Sekigahara under the Ukita as a common soldier.
		Musashi the man must have cut a forbidding appearance: he was said to have rarely bathed or changed his clothes as well as suffering from a somewhat disfiguring skin condition.
		Musashi's own book, the Gorin no shô, was quite well thought of in the United States during the 1980's as a glimpse into the Japanese mind, and was thus consumed by American businessmen - perhaps to the ironic amusement of their Japanese counterparts.
	www.samurai-archives.com /musashi.html (560 words)

	Untitled Document
		Musashi looked different from the typical 17th century samurai, and in fact in both his appearance and talent set, was very different from his contemporaries.
		Musashi carved the wooden sword to be of greater length, and when he arrived on the beach for the dual, he kept it hidden behind him until the dual started.
		Musashi, by request made one hour before his death, wished to be buried in the armor of a samurai general, standing with sword in hand, guarding the Tokaido road to Edo (Tokyo) at the border of the Kumamoto prefecture (today’s name).
	www.musashiusa.org /pages_F/History.htm (1906 words)

	Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
		"Musashi" is the name of an area southwest of Tokyo, and the appellation "No Kami" means noble person of the area, while "Fujiwara" is the name of a noble family foremost in Japan over a thousand years ago.
		Musashi's next contest was when he was sixteen, when he defeated Tadashima Akiyama.
		Musashi lingered on in the capital, and his continued presence further irked the Yoshiokas.
	thor.prohosting.com /kijaji/archive/KIAI27/art4.html (2441 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Miyamoto Musashi was born in 1584, in a Japan struggling to recover from more than four centuries of internal strife.
		Musashi was one such samurai, a "ronin" or "wave man".
		To sum up, Musashi was a ronin at the time when the samurai were formally considered to be the elite, but actually had no means of livelihood unless they owned lands and castles.
	www.aikidoaus.com.au /dojo/docs/rings1.htm (4545 words)

	Encyclopedia of Japanese History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sagami bordered on Izu, Kai, Musashi and Suruga Provinces.
		Hideyoshi defeated the later Hojo clan of Sagami province in the conquest and siege of Odawara (Odawara Seibatsu).
		Shinano bordered on Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces.
	www.openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/s.html (1855 words)

	MUSASHI'S BOOK OF 5 RINGS
		Arima Kihei, the samurai whom Musashi killed at the age of thirteen, was a fencer of the Shinto school associated with the shrines.
		Musashi advocates this "level mind" kind of walking, although he is emphatic about the significance of these parameters - issues of right and left foot arise in the Wind book of Go Rin No Sho.
		Musashi is held to be the inventor of the Two Sword style.
	hometown.aol.com /miyansubijano/myhomepage/books.html (21567 words)

	Art-of-Budo.com \|\| Samurai Biography of Myamoto Musashi © Karateschool Wadokan Gorinchem
		Musashi was born in Miyamoto village of the Ohara town (Mimasaka province).
		The young Musashi has an early talent for fencing, but the relationship with his father is not calm, because Munisai is extremely harsh with him.
		In Hozoin Temple (1605), Musashi defeats twice (with wooden sword) the chief pupil of the Temple, and renowned spearman Oku Hozoin.
	www.art-of-budo.com /samurai/musashi/musashi.htm (2949 words)

	Choshu - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Although the ancient capital of the province was Shimonoseki, Hagi was usually the seat of the han (fief).
		In 1871 with the abolition of feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures (Haihan Chiken) after the Meiji Restoration, the provinces of Nagato and Suo were combined to eventually establish Yamaguchi prefecture.
		Historically, the oligarchy that came into power after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 had a strong representation from the Choshu province, as Ito Hirobumi, Yamagata Aritomo, and Kido Koin (as known as Katsura Kogoro) were from there.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Choshu (193 words)

	Japan Karatedo Organization : JKO Forums : GO RIN NO SHO (1645 AD)
		Musashi was a member of the field staff at Shimabara where the Christians were massacred.
		Musashi wandered about for a long time, and when he was over 50 years old he enjoyed the patronage of Hosokawa Tadatoshi, the feudal master of Kumamoto.
		Musashi remains a source of fascination for the Japanese, as well as for those of us in the West who have more recently discovered the ideals of the samurai and Zen Buddhism.
	www.jko.com /portal/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=22&PN=1 (6920 words)

	HIJMS Musashi - Wikimedia Commons
		Musashi, named after the ancient Japanese Musashi Province, was a battleship belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the second and final ship of the Yamato class to be completed as a battleship.
		With her sister ship, Yamato, she was a member of the largest and most heavily armed and armored class of battleships ever constructed.
		Japanese battleship Musashi is hit, during attacks by Task Force 38 aircraft in the Sibuyan Sea.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/HIJMS_Musashi (215 words)

	Hojo Ujitsuna
		By the time Ujitsuna had become daimyô, the Hôjô controlled Izu Province, most of Sagami Province, and was starting to exert some influence in Musashi.
		The Satomi of Awa Province staged a naval landing at Kamakura and in the course of the fighting that resulted much of the town was burned, including the famous Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine.
		This in effect legitamized the Hôjô's rule of Izu Province and Hôjô control of Sagami was implied as well.
	www.samurai-archives.com /ujitsuna.html (741 words)

	Concerning the Life of Miyomoto Musashi - Deluxe Martial Arts Forums
		He was also a complete bastard, and took part in the massacres of thousands of Christians, so realize that he was not perfect, just tough.
		Musashi was a historical character, but just like King Arthur, I'm sure his stories are romanticized a bit.
		Also, Musashi killed his first man at the age of 13, so I don't think they viewed teenagers the same way we do.
	www.defend.net /deluxeforums/showthread.php?t=782 (3694 words)

	Sarashina
		On the fifteenth, in heavy dark rain, we crossed the boundary of the Province and lodged at Ikada in the Province of Shimofusa.
		People say that purple grass[10] grows in the fields of Musashi, but it is only a waste of various kinds of reeds, which grow so high that we cannot see the bows of our horsemen who are forcing their way through the tall grass.
		In the Province where I was brought up [from which she begins this journey] I saw that mountain far towards the West.
	history.hanover.edu /texts/diaries/diaryall.htm (16047 words)

	Miyamoto Musashi - Wikiquote
		It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways.
		Miyamoto Musashi 宮本武蔵 (c.1584 - 13 June 1645) was a famous Japanese swordsman, believed to have been one of the most skilled swordsmen in history.
		I am a warrior of Harima province, Shinmen Musashi No Kami Fujiwara No Genshin, age sixty years.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi (5790 words)

	The Book of Five Rings - About Miyamoto Musashi
		Musashi's ancestors were a branch of the powerful Harima clan in Kyushu, the southern island of Japan.
		Niten means "Two Heavens", said by some to allude to his fighting attitude with a sword in each hand held above his head.
		In the same way that Musashi seems to have been a horribly cruel man, yet was following logically an honest ideal, so successful business seems to most people to be without conscience.
	www.bookoffiverings.com /MiyamotoMusashi.htm (2727 words)

	The Sarashina Diary.
		grows in the fields of Musashi, but it is only a waste of various kinds of reeds, which grow so high that we cannot see the bows of our horsemen who are forcing their way through the tall grass.
		We crossed it in a boat, and it is the Province of Sagami.
		High personages, Governors of Provinces or other nobles, travelled with a great retinue, consisting of armed horsemen, foot-soldiers, and attendants of all sorts both high and low, together with the luggage necessary for prolonged existence in the wilderness.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/omori/court/sarashina.html (15825 words)

	Senju in Musashi Province Giclee Print by Hokusai Katsushika at AllPosters.com
		Senju in Musashi Province Giclee Print by Hokusai Katsushika at AllPosters.com
		This art print was created using a sophisticated digital printer.
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	www.allposters.com /-sp/Senju-In-Musashi-Province-Posters_i1365543_.htm (91 words)

	The Book Of Five Rings (Gorin No Sho) by Miyamoto Musashi
		I have been many years training in the Way of strategy, called Ni Ten Ichi Ryu, and now I think I will explain it in writing for the first time.
		I have climbed mountain Iwato of Higo in Kyushu to pay homage to heaven, pray to Kwannon, [God(dess) of mercy in Buddhism.
		After that I went from province to province dueling with strategist of various schools, and not once failed to win even though I had as many as sixty encounters.
	www.eisshinryu.com /b_fiverings_intro.htm (399 words)

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	Akira Rabelais / A Book of Five Rings
		Harima province, Shinmen Musashi No Kami Fujiwara No Genshin, age
		After that I went from province to province dueling with strategists of
		Kantori's shrines of the province Hitachi received instruction from the gods,
	www.akirarabelais.com /musashi/bookoffiverings.html (11872 words)

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