* 1612 – Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.

In a famous legend, he defeated Sasaki Kojiro with a bokken he had carved from an oar while traveling on a boat to the predetermined island for the duel.

One famous user of the suburi-sized bokken is Miyamoto Musashi who used one in his duel against Sasaki Kojiro.

He continues to maintain friendships with many of his former students: Gerald Beauregard, Martin McKinney, Ray Guillette, John Puterbaugh, Ted Coffey, Anu Kirk, Yuri Spitsyn, Ted Apel, Kojiro Umezaki, Steve Berkley, Vanderlei Lucentini, Courtney Kennedy, Ileana Perez, Kevin Parks, Colby Leider, Matthew B. Smith, Leslie Stone, Tae Hong Park, Sean Peuquet, Andrew Tomasulo, Paul Botelho the Triple OG, Iroro Orife, Bruno Ruviaro, Masaki Kubo, Will Haslett, Irina Escalante Chernova, Michael Chinen, Kristina Wolfe, Aki Onda, Bill Brunson and Russell Pinkston.

Defeated but defiant Hisahide committed suicide, he ordered his head destroyed to prevent it becoming a trophy ( in which his son, Matsunaga Kojiro grabbed Hisahide's head and jumped off the castle wall with his sword through his throat ) and also destroyed a priceless tea kettle ( Hiragumo ) that Nobunaga coveted before he died.

The training exercise in Star Trek II describes the Kobayashi Maru as a Class III neutronic fuel carrier-ship commanded by Kojiro Vance with 81 crew members and 300 passengers.

Yoshihime insisted Masamune resign the succession to her second son, Kojiro.

Sasaki Kojiro ( right ) engages Miyamoto Musashi on the shores of Ganryū Island.

Kojiro attempted his famous " swallow's blade " or " swallow cut ," but Musashi's oversized bokken hit Kojiro first, causing him to fall down ; before Kojiro could finish his swallow cut, Musashi smashed Kojiro's left rib, puncturing his lungs and killing him.

Harada Mukashi and a few other scholars believe that Kojiro was actually assassinated by Musashi and his students – the Sasaki clan apparently was a political obstacle to Lord Hosokawa, and defeating Kojirō would be a political setback to his religious and political foes.

Kabuki actor Ohtani Tomoemon as Sasaki Kojiro in the fated duel with Miyamoto Musashi at Ganryu Island.

Sasaki Kojiro has appeared in many forms in pop culture in Japan.

In the manga Vagabond, Sasaki Kojiro is portrayed as a deaf man raised by a retired samurai after he is found in the ocean clinging to a long sword.

In the PlayStation 1 video game Brave Fencer Musashi, Kojiro appears as a result of a second " hero summoning " to save the princess of the Allucaneet Kingdom.

Sasaki Kojiro also appeared as one of the servants in the Fate / Stay Night anime and visual novel of 2006 and played the role of the Assassin Servant.

Left to right: Beginner Pilots Emi and Yumi Hanner, Second Lt. Kojiro Sakai ; First Lt. K. Kim ; Sub Lt. Makoto Yamamoto ; Lt.

Soon Tsubasa and his Nankatsu team start taking on the best of elementary school football, meeting such talented players as Kojiro Hyuga, Ken Wakashimazu, Jun Misugi, Hikaru Matsuyama, and many others.

J. J. Thomson created a technique for separating atom types through his work on ionized gases, which subsequently led to the discovery of stable isotopes.

Sweephull is a fast hybrid technique for 2D Delaunay triangulation that uses a radially propagating sweep-hull ( sequentially created from

She was created using the technique of somatic cell nuclear transfer, where the cell nucleus from an adult cell is transferred into an unfertilised oocyte ( developing egg cell ) that has had its nucleus removed.

Wilmut, who led the team that created Dolly, announced in 2007 that the nuclear transfer technique may never be sufficiently efficient for use in humans.

Some doubted the discovery at first, arguing that the appearance of the structure was merely an optical illusion created by the observation technique used by Golgi.

The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.

In improv, this is more commonly known as ' space object work ' or ' space work ', not ' mime ', and the props and locations created by this technique, as ' space objects '.

The exercise routine he created for his own rehabilitation became the world's first complete technique for learning jazz dance.

Lomography ’ s website showcases many high-contrast photographs – with unusual saturation and color – that were created using the technique called cross processing in which film intended for developing in slide chemistry ( E-6 ) is processed in photographic negative chemistry ( C-41 ), and vice versa.

Musashi created and perfected a two-sword kenjutsu technique called niten ' ichi ( 二天一, " two heavens as one ") or nitōichi ( 二刀一, " two swords as one ") or " Ni-Ten Ichi Ryu " ( A Kongen Buddhist Sutra refers to the two heavens as the two guardians of Buddha ).

This technique is not to be confused with the stop motion technique, in which the entire shot is created frame by frame.

degli Antoni had invented a technique to combine live performance with real time manipulation of his created samples.

The essential criterion of type identity was met by medieval print artifacts such as the Latin Pruefening Abbey inscription of 1119 that was created by the same technique as the Phaistos disc.

; Pairwise exchange, or Lin – Kernighan heuristics: The pairwise exchange or 2-opt technique involves iteratively removing two edges and replacing these with two different edges that reconnect the fragments created by edge removal into a new and shorter tour.

The roping technique allowed Viking crews to remain strong in numbers and act as a unit, but this uniformity also created problems.

In this way a solid object is created indirectly by using wireframe technique.

Artist Mark Summers, well known for his scratchboard technique, created this portrait for the stamp referencing a black-and-white photograph of Ferber taken in 1927.

These lines were created by using a randomization technique where random samples were taken from one of four categories.

Heterodyning is a radio signal processing technique invented in 1901 by Canadian inventor-engineer Reginald Fessenden, in which new frequencies are created by combining or mixing two frequencies.

" It is commonly used in contrast to de jure ( which means " concerning the law ") when referring to matters of law, governance, or technique ( such as standards ) that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or contrary to a regulation.

In this tense ambiance, Falcone introduced an innovative investigative technique in the Spatola investigation, seizing bank records to follow " the money trail " created by heroin deals to build his case, applying the skills he had learned unraveling bankruptcies.

Freeman and Watts gradually refined the surgical technique and created the Freeman-Watts procedure ( the " precision method ", the standard prefrontal lobotomy ).

Around 1832, Augustus Jackson, an African American confectioner, not only created multiple ice cream recipes but also invented a superior technique to manufacture ice cream.

Handicraft goods are generally considered more traditional work, in traditional non-industrial and transitional societies created as a somewhat more necessary part of daily life ( in comparison to industrial societies ), while arts and crafts implies more of a hobby pursuit and a demonstration / perfection of a creative technique.