Usagi Yojimbo DojoBoard

Lives of Master Swordsmen
Author: Makoto Sugawara

ISBN number:4-915645-01-0
Softcover - 241 pages
Price: 2,400 Yen
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Meet the pantheon of swordsmen: Tsukahara Bokuden and Miyamoto Musashi, lone wolves who wandered the length and breadth of Japan in search of opponents worthy of them; the Yagyû - hereditary instructors of the Tokugawa - whose Zen-based Kage school is the most illustrious of all fencing schools in the annals of swordsmanship; Itô Kagehisa, the only master blade devoted to swordsmanship as wielding a sword; and Kiyokawa Hachirô and Yamaoka Tesshû, who played active roles in the Meiji Restoration.
Author Makoto Sugawara takes especial pains to separate the Musashi of fact from the Musashi of fiction, and in the process attains a profound insight into the character of the great swordsman who arouses ambivalent feelings in the Japanese.