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	Alibris: Miyamoto Musashi
		Written in 1643 by the preeminent samurai warrior Miyamoto Musashi, this classic text is presented in full in a new translation and is accompanied by numerous comments and drawings that originate from the period of the samurai.
		The BOOK OF FIVE RINGS is a legendary Japanese text written in the 17th century by an undefeated samurai, Miyamoto Musashi.
		The famous Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi, originally wrote the work in 1645.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Musashi,Miyamoto (638 words)

	Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)
		Shinmen Musashi No Kami Fujiwara No Genshin more commonly known as Miyamoto Musashi was a samurai and swordsman whose life and writings have had great influence.
		Detailed footnotes add to the translation and the text is very interesting for any interested in Kendo or the martial arts, mixing philosophy with strategy, giving a real insight into the life and beliefs of a samurai.
		Mostly known for his excellent book on swordsmanship and strategy, "A Book of Five Rings", his life was filled with events that made him a legend in his own lifetime to be known as a Kensei or sword saint.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/people_miyamoto_musashi.html (357 words)

	Martial Arts Book Reviews: the Best Budo Books
		The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
		by Miyamoto Musashi; translated by William Scott Wilson
		Clouds in the West: Lessons from the Martial Arts of Japan
	www.koryu.com /books/bookreviews.html (404 words)

	MIYAMOTO MUSASHI, biography/part1
		Musashi was born in Miyamoto village of the Ohara town (Mimasaka province).
		Musashi uses again two wooden swords against a samurai who used an eight foot long hexagonal wooden pole.
		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.
	musashi1584.netfirms.com /musashi/bios/bios1/bios1.htm (1834 words)

	Samurai Sword Legend Musashi - Master of the Way of Martial Arts and Strategy
		Musashi Miyamoto was a legendary samurai who lived from 1584 to 1645.
		Musashi Miyamoto's book on his school of sword fighting and on the Way of the the Warrior.
		"The Way of the Warrior does not include other Ways...but if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything." - Musashi Miyamoto
	www.musashimiyamoto.com (131 words)

	Samurai 1-- Musashi Miyamoto
		Musashi Hjemmeside Musashi Shotokan Karate-do er opkaldt efter den største strateg indenfor orientalsk kampkunst, Miyamoto Musashi.
		CSK Miyamoto Musashi [Ferrara] Centro studi kendo: attrezzatura, immagini, dizionario giapponese, contatti.
		The Musashi World Brief biography of Miyamoto Musashi, one of Japan's great feudal age swordsman.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Samurai_1--_Musashi_Miyamoto.html (353 words)

	Samurai Miyamoto Musashi's Book of 5 Rings - Zen Buddhist chapter
		Musashi's condemnation of reliance on tradition is simultaneously strongest and most subtle in the enigmatic "Book of Emptiness".
		The garden was well respected in Musashi's time, so there's a good chance he visited it.
		This lack of reliance on preconceived ideas is what enabled Musashi to take out two swords to beat 30 men.
	artofwar.thetao.info /japan/emptiness.htm (422 words)

	Amazon.com: The Book of Five Rings: Books: Miyamoto Musashi
		The book is written by Miyamoto Musashi perhaps the most well known Samurai leader in history and is a unique opportunity to read his thoughts and strategies.
		Musashi's work should be studied, not simply read, and Cleary's translation lacks commentary; it also makes the prose seems flat and the philosophy simplistic.
		Most important of all is Miyamoto's concept of rhythm, how all things are in harmony, and that by working with the rhythm of a situation we can turn it to our advantage with little effort.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553351702?v=glance (1733 words)

	Miyamoto Musashi master katana sword from the forge of ChenChao-po
		Epitomizing the art of the Samurai sword maker, the Miyamoto Musashi is crafted at the Dalian, Hanwei (China) forge of Paul Chen, a widely respected authority on the art of oriental swordmaking.
		Miyamoto Musashi, arguably the most famous swordmaster in Japanese history, fought more than 60 duels before retiring and writing his famous treatise on swordplay, the Book of Five Rings".
		Musashi was well above average height and his Daito (long sword) was made to match his size.
	www.swordarmory.com /katanas/101617gt.htm (422 words)

	The Tokugawa Clan's Legendary Enemies
		Too much has been said about Miyamoto Musashi, the masterless samurai that wandered around Japan after the Sekigahara battle that installed Tokugawa clan to supremacy (click here for story and pictures).
		He was reputedly very good-looking in a brawlish way, and he was as good as Miyamoto Musashi and Yagyu Munenori in this art -- the latter was formerly his mentor.
		His reputation was such that in 20th century and back his rare appearance in pop culture was as a bad guy, just because all of his opponents in duels ended up dead.
	uk.geocities.com /rainforestwind/tokugawa6.htm (1401 words)

	Legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi's Book of 5 Rings
		In the early 1600's, a samurai named Miyamoto Musashi (
		Legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi's Book of 5 Rings
	artofwar.thetao.info /japan (151 words)

	eBay - miyamoto musashi, Nonfiction Books, DVD items on eBay.com
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	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=miyamoto+musashi&... (514 words)

	Miyamoto Musashi
		The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi by William Scott Wilson
	faculty.washington.edu /~kendo/musashi.html (12 words)

	Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai of all times
		Miyamoto Musashi - Japan's Greatest Samurai of all times
	www.miyamotomusashi.com /index.html?currentDir=Aikido&actualDir=Magazines (116 words)

	Miyamoto Musashi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Musashi came late and unkempt — possibly as an attempt to unnerve his opponent — and killed him with a bokken that he had made from an oar to be longer than the nodachi, an impressive feat by the standards of any Samurai or Swordsman.
		While Musashi used two swords and had a rival named Kojiro in the first game, and an arch nemesis named Gandrake (also based on Kojiro), the plot of both games involve Musashi and these two getting sent to an alternate world and bear no relation to the life of Miyamoto Musashi.
		Musashi was raised as a buddhist by his uncle, after his father died when he was at the age of seven.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi (5878 words)

	Samurai, The Legend of Musashi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samurai, The Legend of Musashi is a film directed by
		Hiroshi Inagaki and starring Toshiro Mifune as the 17th-century warrior Miyamoto Musashi.
		The film chronicles roughly the first half of Musashi's life, in which he leaves his village to become a warrior in a civil war and later returns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samurai_1--_Musashi_Miyamoto (5878 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto
		The comparison is valid, for the tale of the medieval samurai Musashi Miyamoto is played out against a background of civil war and wholesale destruction.
		Hiroshi InagakiÂ’s Samurai Trilogy, of which this release is the first part, was adapted from Eiji YoshikawaÂ’s epic novel Musashi Miyamoto, which has been called JapanÂ’s Gone with the Wind.
		That same year, a rival production called Musashi Miyamoto Â—not based on YoshikawaÂ’s book, but covering the same historical incidentsÂ—emerged from the Toei studio, directed by Yasuo Kohata and starring Rentaro Mikuni (who plays Matahachi in Samurai).
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=14&eid=27§ion=essay (5878 words)

	Musashi: Samurai Legend - ps2 Review - Game Revolution
		Musashi Miyamoto was a 16th century samurai who won fame as an unbeatable swordsman, writing the Book of Five Rings and generally beating down Japan’s best blades with naught but a wooden stick.
		Musashi: Samurai Legends may carry the name of a great samurai, but it’s more of a fungus on the trunk of the family tree than a legitimate heir.
		Today, this legend lives on in the aptly-titled Musashi: Samurai Legend, a third-person action platformer from Square-Enix.
	gr.bolt.com /games/ps2/action/musashi_samurai_legend.htm (1036 words)

	GameSpy: Musashi: Samurai Legend Review
		Mushashi Miyamoto may be an ancient samurai hero, but Square's version of the swordsman is a brash young kid.
		But the kid hasn't aged a day, and he arrives for Musashi Samurai Legend with a manga-inspired graphics engine.
		Musashi has been summoned to a new planet where he's tasked with typical hero stuff: saving a princess, rescuing elementals and their swords, and defeating an evil corporation bent on taking over the world.
	ps2.gamespy.com /playstation-2/musashi-samurai-legend/595336p1.html (537 words)

	hs1992004.htm
		Readings: “Miyamoto Musashi: Gorin no Sho (Book of Five Elements) in Sato, Legends of the Samurai, pp.
		Sato, Legends of the Samurai, pp.
		“Oda Nobunaga: The Warlord and Poetry,” in Sato, Legends of the Samurai, pp.
	departments.juniata.edu /history/syllabi/hs1992004.htm (1330 words)

	Other samurai movies
		Movie review: Toshirô Mifune defines the quintessential samurai in Hiroshi Inagaki's 1954 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, the first feature in a trilogy based on the epic novel by Eiji Yoshikawa.
		The 1963 sequel, Sanjuro, is more lighthearted and less cynical, a rousing adventure with Mifune becoming an unlikely big brother to a troupe of nine naive samurai.
		One of the inspirations for the spaghetti Westerns of director Sergio Leone and the 1996 Bruce Willis vehicle Last Man Standing, this film offers insight into a director who influenced American films even as he was influenced by them.
	favoritesamuraimovies.com /others.asp (1330 words)

	1955 Oscar Winners
		Samurai, the Legend of Musashi * ( Miyamoto Musashi) from Japan, directed by Inagaki Hiroshi, screenplay by Hojo Hideji, Inagaki Hiroshi, Wakao Tokuhei based on the novel of the same name (1935-39) by Yoshikawa Eiji.
		Samurai, the Legend of Musashi from Japan, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
		Marty garnered a surprising eight Academy Award nominations* (it won four) and proved that common tales about everyday life, previously thought suitable only for the television market, were still viable productions for the cinema.
	www.britannica.com /oscars/y_1955.htm (1330 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (REGION 1) (NTSC)
		Set in 1600 A.D., in a civil war period, Musashi relates the first years of samurai apprenticeship of Takezo who, with his friend, Matahachi, decides to go to war in order to obtain fame.
		This is the first part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy, an adaptation of Eiji Yoshikawa magnificent 1000 page novel Musashi which sold over 120 million copies in Japan.
		The film begins with the rebellious Musashi going off to war and glory, being reformed by a priest and eventually becoming the master of the sword through duels, battles, and a little thinking.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0780021045 (1330 words)

	Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô (1955)
		The first film, titled simply "Musashi Miyamoto," introduces us to the characters of this and the third film.
		I've watched the entire trilogy of the Musashi Miyamoto films, of which this film is the second part.
		Two women are trailing after him, as Kurosawa films would say, "like goldfish dung." Musashi himself is a flat character on whom Toshiro Mifune's acting skills are wasted.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0048579 (1330 words)

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		Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto - Criterion Collection
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	Filmography -- Toshiro Mifune -- Japanese Film Star
		1956 - SAMURAI PART III: DUAL ON GANRYU ISLAND (Miyamoto Musashi Yori: Ketto Ganryujima), Hiroshi Inagaki
		1954 - SEVEN SAMURAI (Shichinin No Samurai), Akira Kurosawa
		1960 - THE GAMBLING SAMURAI (Kunisada Chuji), Senkichi Taniguchi
	moby.icebox.org /film.html (1330 words)

	Ex Astris Scientia - Federation Ship Names L-Z
		Miyamoto Musashi, a legendary Japanese samurai and swordsmith from the Tokugawa era, also name of a Japanese dreadnought of WW II that sunk during the Battle of Leyte Gulf on October 25, 1944
		This was an in-joke referring to John LithgowÂ’s character in the film "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension".
		The ship was named for Eric Nash, motion control technician at Image G. Unless he is starting a great political career, Starfleet probably wouldn't remember him despite all his merits.
	www.ex-astris-scientia.org /articles/name_origins2.htm (1330 words)

	The Legend of Miyamoto Musashi - Part II,
		The Legend of Miyamoto Musashi - Part II,
		The Legend of Miyamoto Musashi - Part II Harga Special
		He undergoes a mythic spiritual quest for inner harmony, disrupted by the presence of a rival samurai and the loss of the woman he loved.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Indonesian/Products/6989.htm (1330 words)

	HKFlix.com DVDetails™ samurai 1: musashi miyamoto [taiwan version] dir.: hiroshi inagaki cast: toshiro mifune, rentaro mikuni, kuroemon onoe, kaoru yachigusa, mariko okada, mitsuko mito, eiko miyoshi, akihiko hirata
		The Samurai Trilogy is based around the life of the historical character Musashi Miyamoto.
		Several versions of his life have been produced for cinema and television in Japan, but none more prestigious than Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy.
		Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1955, it was also Toho's first foray into colour.
	www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/filmID.1981/aid.006349/qx/details.htm (1330 words)

	The Legend of Miyamoto Musashi - Part IIINLA,
		In the final part of this samurai trilogy, Miyamoto resolves the personal and professional tensions in his life, confronting the emotional pain of the two women who love him and the roguish swordsman who challenges his domain.
		The Legend of Miyamoto Musashi - Part IIINLA,
		The Legend of Miyamoto Musashi - Part IIINLA
	www.worldlanguage.com /Indonesian/Products/6991.htm (1330 words)

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