Musashi would officially become the retainer of the Hosokowa lords of Kumamoto in 1640.

Mifune's portrayal of Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy is deliberately made to become the epitome of samurai honour and manners.

As each is thought of as an attitude, it could be thought of that Musashi means to practice with each " attitude " so that you do not become over-reliant upon one, something which Musashi repeatedly notes as being worse than bad technique.

At the end of the fifth volume, we learn that Takezo has for the moment shed his rage and become a more graceful person-Miyamoto Musashi.

As he painfully reminisces about his uncle, Matahachi spies Musashi arriving from afar and quickly runs away, praising Musashi for how strong he appears to have become.

Ueda states that if Musashi kills Denshichirō then the Yoshioka clan will become solely fixated on killing him.

Losing his composure, Musashi antagonizes Ueda, who then makes light of the fact that Musashi would become so angry at his own imminent death but feel nothing for killing Denshichirō and his brother.

After his mother dies, Gonnosuke seeks for Musashi again, intending to become his disciple.

On March 31, 2006 Kunisaki absorbed the towns of Aki, Kunimi and Musashi, all from Higashikunisaki District, to become the new city of Kunisaki.

* On March 31, 2006 the old town of Kunisaki absorbed the towns of Aki, Kunimi and Musashi to become the new city of Kunisaki.

the final entry into the series taking place three years after the final episode, Fubuki has become the captain of a new batch of Team EYES members and fights with the ideals of Musashi in mind.

This may seem unlikely since Ieyasu was in his 70s and was in poor health already, but it remains unknown how Musashi came into Ieyasu's good graces.

Around this time, Musashi developed a number of disciples for his Enmei-ryū although he had developed the school considerably earlier ; at the age of 22, Musashi had already written a scroll of Enmei-ryū teachings called " Writings on the Sword Technique of the Enmei-ryū " ( Enmei-ryū kenpo sho ).

In 1181, Yoshinaka sought to regain his father's domain in Musashi which was already under the control of his cousin Minamoto no Yoritomo.

There is a tribute / in game joke at the end of the game when Gandrake is impatiently waiting for Musashi just as he did in real life at the beginning and there is also a hint that the duel had already taken place in Musashi's homeworld when Gandrake says " I never thought we would repeat those words again "

Musashi apparently fought on the side of the Toyotomi's " Army of the West ", as the Shinmen clan ( to whom his family owed allegiance ) had allied with them.

In 1611, Musashi began practicing zazen at the Myōshin-ji temple, where he met Nagaoka Sado, vassal to Hosokawa Tadaoki ; Tadaoki was a powerful lord who had received the Kumamoto Domain in west-central Kyūshū after the Battle of Sekigahara.

Musashi killed his opponent with a bokken that legend says he had carved from an oar used on the boat that carried him to the island.

The war had broken out because Tokugawa Ieyasu saw the Toyotomi family as a threat to his rule of Japan ; most scholars believe that, as in the previous war, Musashi fought on the Toyotomi side.

Other accounts claim he actually served on the Tokugawa side, but such a claim is unproven, although Musashi had a close relationship with some Tokugawa vassals through his duel with Sasaki Kojirō, and in the succeeding years, he did not drop out of sight as might be expected if he were being persecuted for being on the losing side.

In his later years, Ogasawara and Hosokawa supported Musashi greatly — an atypical course of action for these Tokugawa loyalists, if Musashi had indeed fought on behalf of the Toyotomi.

Six years later, in 1633, Musashi began staying with Hosokawa Tadatoshi, daimyo of Kumamoto Castle, who had moved to the Kumamoto fief and Kokura, to train and paint.

Musashi had mentioned that the footwork shall be accommodating to whatever terrain or purpose that is given.

Timing is essential in the use of this technique, and Musashi had advised that the double-sword technique should be learned early-on.

Gion Toji reappears, looking noticeably worse for the wear ( he seems to symbolize Musashi had he remained so angry ).

Denshichirō solemnly states that he is glad to have had Musashi as his final opponent and perishes.

He spies the Yoshioka amassing under the same great pine as where Musashi had his confrontation with Ueda Ryōhei.

Musashi takes up a journey to visit a cave back in his hometown where he had promised a skeleton that he would return if he was stronger.

The match was probably set in such a remote place because by this time Kojirō had acquired many students and disciples, and had Kojirō lost, they would probably have attempted to kill Musashi.

Musashi had been late for the duel on purpose in order to psychologically unnerve his opponent ( a tactic he used on previous occasions, such as during his series of duels with the Yoshioka swordsmen ).

* July 22, 1878-Tama District, It had long been part of former Musashi Province, was divided into four parts: Higashitama ( Eastern Tama ), Kitatama ( Northern Tama ), Minamitama ( Southern Tama ) and Nishitama ( Western Tama ).

Sagami bordered on Izu, Musashi, Suruga provinces ; and had access to the Pacific Ocean through Sagami Bay.

With Musashi gone, Kurita had four battleships but only three cruisers remaining, and all of his ships were damaged and low on fuel.

Miyamoto Musashi, a kenjutsu master, was renowned for fighting fully armed foes with only one or two bokken.

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 ).

The " Gate ", as referred to by Miyamoto Musashi is the opening between two fighters at a given time.

" In the following years, similar awards were given to seven other films: one from Italy ( The Bicycle Thief ), two from France ( Monsieur Vincent and Forbidden Games ), three from Japan ( Rashomon, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ), as well as a Franco-Italian co-production ( The Walls of Malapaga ).

Miyamoto Musashi in his prime, wielding two bokken.

The stories of his many duels rarely reference Musashi himself wielding two swords, although, since they are mostly oral traditions, their details may be rather inaccurate.

However, Musashi states within the volume that one should train with a long sword in each hand, thereby training the body and improving one's ability to use two blades simultaneously, though the aim of this was only for training purposes and wasn't meant to be a viable fighting style.

Musashi kills five members of higher rank, until finally Yoshioka Denshichirō, the more serious of the two sons of Yoshioka Kempo, decides to kill Musashi himself.

Granny Hon ' iden states that they are to look for Musashi and Otsu, whom she states " ran off together ", though she is completely unaware that the two have not been with each other since they ran away from the village.

The two engage in a playful stick fight with thin tree branches in which Musashi " wins ", however, the fight takes a serious tone when Kojirō then eagerly draws his sword in the hopes of a real fight.

When he awakens, it is revealed that Musashi cannot walk because of the severe wound in his right calf ( caused by Ueda Ryōhei's final slash ) and, according to " one of the two best physicians in Kyōto ", his fighting days are over.

Musashi Miyamoto grew up amidst the turn of two great eras.

Note that in this rendering, Musashi is using two bokken.

The area now known as Meguro was originally two towns, Meguro proper and Hibusuma, all parts of the former Ebara District of Musashi Province.

Miyamoto Musashi in his prime, wielding two bokken.

Miyamoto Musashi, samurai swordman, author of The Book of Five Rings and founder of the Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryū, famous for its use of two swords, lived in the Kokura castle under the patronage of the Ogasawara and Hosokawa clans briefly during 1634.

* Tomoe Gozen is one of the characters resurrected on the planet of Riverworld, in both the science fiction novels of Philip José Farmer and the 2010 miniseries adaptation of the same name ; in the latter she is depicted as wielding two blades ( one definitely a katana and the other, smaller-tsuka blade potentially being an elongated tantō ) in the style of Musashi Miyamoto and the Go Rin No Sho, or Book of Five Rings.

Sean entered K-1 on December 31, 2004 with a second round knockout loss to Musashi and then went on to compete in two WGP rounds held in Las Vegas ( 05, 06 ) where he racked up losses to both Gary Goodridge ( 1st round 0: 55 tko ) & Chalid Arrab ( 1st round 0: 23 ko ) to round off his K-1 record to 0 / 3.

* Teuri Island, population 366, is located west of Yagashiri, and the two islands are separated by the Musashi Channel.

His experiences, which would climax in his two duels with the famous swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, led him to create a set of techniques for the jō.