Miyamoto Musashi

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Sports and Martial Arts

Kenji Tokistu

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412 pages – 2023 – 176 898 words

The man and the work – myth and realit

A new edition enriched by QR codes :This new edition includes QR codes leading to videos demonstrating Miyamoto Musashi’s sword techniques as described in his work.

The adventurous life of Miyamoto Musashi has inevitably made him into a mythical figure in Japanese culture. Famous for his combats, master in the art of the sabre, this warrior was also a calligrapher, painter, sculpture, and author of an influential work.
Miyamoto Musashi became famous in the 20th Century for he was responsible for lifting nume- rous controversies and polemics that clouded the line between myth and reality.

Kenji Tokitsu holds a PhD in Oriental Languages and Civilizations and is himself a sabre master and specialist in martial arts, and strives to get the best out of both.
From a new, commented translation of Mayamoto Musashi’s work and through his personal experience in martial arts, Kenji Tokitsu paints an original portrait of this legendary character whose life was lived during the period when feudal wars were on the wane in Japan.

Miyamoto Musashi is the story of an exceptional warrior but also of martial arts in a Japanese society that is in the midst of living a new page in its history.

Kenji Tokistu

A sabre adept, a master of martial arts and the founder of the Tokitsu Ryu Interna- tional Martial Arts Aca- demy, Kenji Tokitsu gives us here an in-depth reflection on a notion profoundly rooted in the history of his country, revealing the underlying meaning of many Japanese values.

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