Besides fencing, he is also a master of shuriken, Body Art (unarmed martial arts) and other martial arts. In his twenties, he started a school called "first-class"; In the tenth year of the Qing Dynasty (1605), he wrote the fencing work "Bing Dao Jing". During the reign of Kuan Yong (1624 ~ 1644), he completed the skill of two knives, which is called "two days first-class".
Among Musashi's dueling deeds, the most well-known one is "Dueling on Ada Island", which is the story of the duel between Changmen State (now Shimonoseki City, Shankou County, Honshu) and Ada swordsman Sasaki Kojiro in the Qing Dynasty.
Most people think that Musashi Miyamoto defeated Sasaki Kojiro in this duel, but in fact, the duel process, the outcome and even the name of Musashi Miyamoto's opponent are recorded in different materials, which remains to be verified. In addition, it is also said that Sasaki Kojiro was taken aboard after being knocked unconscious by Musashi Miyamoto, and was secretly killed by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Musashi Miyamoto's influence in Japan is so great that there is a saying that "Makita's gun is Musashi Miyamoto's knife". He claimed: "I studied fencing since I was a child and traveled all over the country. I have seen swordsmen of all factions, and I have tried more than 60 times without losing. " Japan is a country that worships force and swords. Although the Ming Dynasty had friction with the Japanese ruling and opposition parties, it imported a large number of swords from Japan. From a commercial point of view, Japanese swords are equivalent to silk and tea before the Opium War in China, and occupy a considerable proportion in foreign trade.
The grass-shaved sword still preserved in Japan is regarded as a national treasure by the Japanese. Japan has many such national treasures. In Japan, they are not only valuable as cultural relics, but also regarded as sacred objects or sacred objects. The History of Japan also records the story of Kusanagi's sword showing its spirit. Among the three treasures used as a token (equivalent to a jade seal) when the Japanese emperor acceded to the throne, there was Yun Jian, a genius-of course, as the author of Chrysanthemum and Knife said, the original sword had sunk to the bottom of the sea in a turmoil, and now the royal family only uses imitations.
Until the Meiji period, the sword was regarded as a part of the samurai's body. Bushido in Nitobe Inazo said that even if you accidentally cross the other's knife, it is regarded as a great disrespect and insult to your master. In the TV series "Familiarity and Matsuzaka", Nobuyoshi Oda inadvertently gave the nod given by Sassa Narimasa to others, and Sassa Narimasa was quite depressed and alarmed.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Musashi Miyamoto