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Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

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By (author): Eiji Yoshikawa

Translated by: Charles Terry

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai-without really knowing what it meant-he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1090g
  • Dimensions: 155 x 217mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Sep 2012
  • Publisher: Kodansha America Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781568364278

About Eiji Yoshikawa

EIJI YOSHIKAWA was born in 1892 in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo. He began his literary career at the age of twenty-two. 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. At the time of his death in 1962 he was one of Japan's best-known and best-loved novelists. He received the Cultural Medal the highest award for a man of letters and other cultural decorations including the Order of the Sacred Treasure.CHARLES S. TERRY the translator was born in Mississippi in 1926 and graduated from Duke University. He first studied Japanese in the U.S. Navy during WW II and after the war received a master's degree from Columbia University in Japanese history. 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. He died in 1982.

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