What is Miyamoto Musashi?
[[File:Miyamoto Musashi Self-Portrait.jpg|thumb|left|200px|{{Center|Miyamoto Musashi,a [[Self-portrait]]}}]] {{Infobox Chinese |kanji=宮本 武蔵 |image=miyamoto_Musashi-Portrait-Edo-period.png |hiragana=みやもと むさし |katakana=ミヤモト ムサシ |romaji=Miyamoto Musashi }} {{Commonscat|Miyamoto Musashi}} '''Miyamoto Musashi''' (c. 1584 – June 13, 1645), was also known as '''Shinmen Takezō''', '''Miyamoto Bennosuke''' or, by his [[Buddhist]] [[wikt:name|name]], '''Niten Dōraku'''.<ref>Toyota Masataka, 'Niten Ki (A Chronicle of Two Heavens)', ''Gorin no Sho'', ed. Kamiko Tadashi (Tokyo: Tokuma-shoten, 1963), p. 239</ref> He was a [[Japan]]ese [[Samurai]] and [[Ronin|rōnin]].<ref>Matt Doeden, ''Life as a Samurai: An Interactive History Adventure'' (Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2011), p. 76</ref> Even from a young age Musashi became well known for his excellent [[swordsmanship]] and won some sixty [[duel]]s.<ref>Nick Evangelista, ''The Encyclopedia of the Sword'' (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995), p. 318</ref> He always had [[money]] and had a number of other rōnins as followers.<ref>Kenji Tokitsu; Sherab Chodzin Kohn, ''Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings'' (Boston: Shambhala: Distributed in the U.S. by Random House, 2004), p. 124</ref> Musashi is best known as the [[author]] of [[The Book of Five Rings]]. It is a book on [[strategy]], [[Military tactics|tactics]], and [[philosophy]]. The book is very popular in modern Japan and the [[western world]] among successful [[Businessperson|business people]].<ref>Leo Gough, ''Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings: A modern-day interpretation of a military classic'' (Oxford, UK: Infinite Ideas, 2009), p. 8</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Musashi, Miyamoto}} [[Category:1584 births]] [[Category:1645 deaths]] [[Category:Japanese philosophers]] [[Category:Japanese martial artists]] [[Category:Duels]]