7 SAMURAI MUSASHI MIYAMOTO GORINSHO HISTORICAL FIGURE

MUSASHI MIYAMOTO (1584 - 1645) Musashi Miyamoto is a master swordsman of the whole country matchless of well-known. Musashi is told that there was no defeat during his life of 60 years. The story of the fight in Ganryu-Jima (island) (*1) with Kojiro Sasaki is very famous. There are a lot of uncertain points of the real image though it is a person known by the story and the novel. Also in his birth home, there are various guesses such as Harima (Hyogo-ken), Bisaku (Okayama-ken) and other. Moreover, the fight with a lot of master swordsmen can be confirmed only by about ten in present material. The story after the fight of Ganryu-jima told when he was 19 years old is the uncertainty of most parts of his life. He is told roaming around a Japanese country for the training of further samurai. Also he is told that the temporary employment with Hanshu-Akashi and the work of Machi-wari (*2) was done. Also he is told employment to Ogasawara Family of Buzen-Kokura and participation to repress Shimabara-no-Ran (*3). He became a guest in the Kumamoto-Hosokawa clan in the fall of life. He shut himself up in the rock-cave named Reigando, spent every day of a silence alone, and wrote Gorin-sho. This book is read now for lesson of sword technique and philosophy book to know Bushi-do (Japanese chivalry) as a esoteric technique book to a lot of people now. *1 Ganryu-jima Funa-jima, Shimonoseki-shi, Yamaguchi-ken *2 Machi-wari It is a city design done so that the lord may rule the territory. It readjusted the samurai area, the tradesman area, and the temple area, etc. centering on the castle. *3 Shimabara-no-Ran It is a revolt that Shiro Amakusa who leader for Christian and farmer caused the oppression of Shimabara lord's Matsukura Family from 1637 to 38. They fought against the shogunate during half a year but they were defeated.

Product information Box size:5" x 3" x 2" Product maker:F-toys confect. Product name:Historical Figure Museum/Nananin no Kengo(Seven Samurai) Figure name:No.16 MUSASHI MIYAMOTO Figure size:Height 3-1/2"(w/base) Director for sculpting:Takayuki Takeya (The most famous sculptor in Japan) Sculptor:Yuji Oniki

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