Last Updated: May 26, 2024

Musashi’s Miyamoto

The Birthplace of this Iconic Legend

This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium.

Ever since first reading the Japanese historical novelist Yoshikawa Eiji’s book Musashi, I’ve had a bit of an obsession with Japan’s most notorious swordsman. Known to history as Miyamoto Musashi, this famed fencer from the early days of the Edo period (1603–1868) originally hails from an extremely…