![]() Resident in Japan since 1952, he also received a master's degree in Chinese history from the University of Tokyo and has since been active as a translator of works on Japanese art, architecture and history. It took me about 3 months to get through the first 30 pages of this. ![]() Musashi has to learn to control his own arrogance, and accept instruction from a number of mentors along his path. I find that this book teaches a lot about values (if indirectly). Navy during WW II and after the war received a master's degree from Columbia University in Japanese history. The book is a coming of age story about the birth of Japan's foremost samurai warrior 'Mushashi'. TERRY, the translator, was born in Mississippi in 1926 and graduated from Duke University. He received the Cultural Medal, the highest award for a man of letters, and other cultural decorations, including the Order of the Sacred Treasure. At the time of his death in 1962, he was one of Japan's best-known and best-loved novelists. During his thirties he worked as a journalist while continuing to write stories and novels, reaching a large and appreciative readership through having his work published, often serially, in newspapers and popular magazines. It follows his life after the monk Takuan forces him to reinvent himself as Miyamoto Musashi. ![]() ![]() The book follows Shinmen Takez starting after the Battle of Sekigahara. He began his literary career at the age of twenty-two. Musashi ( Japanese:, Hepburn: Miyamoto Musashi) is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the life and deeds of legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. ![]() EIJI YOSHIKAWA was born in 1892 in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. ![]()
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