Miyamoto Musashi Research Paper

Miyamoto Musashi lived during the Edo period also known as the Tokugawa period which lasted for about 265 years, from AD 1603-1868. During this period, a samurai named Tokugawa Ieyasu was the shogun of Japan which was a political leader that was second in command after the emperor. About 3 years before this period on the 24th of October 1600 there was a great battle called the battle of Sekigahara which was a war between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (the pervious shogun who had passed away) and his son Hideyoris loyal daimyo (feudal lords who were given access to the use of land in return for their military services) to determine who would be the shogun. Tokugawa Ieyasu was declared victorious after winning, by sending someone in the middle of the battle to one of his enemy’s leader to come join him. Also for about a century between the years 1467-1564 there was a great hardship that came to be known as ‘the age of the country at war’. This was a great civil war in which …show more content…
He was born in the year 1584 in Harima Province and die on the 13th of June 1645 in Higo Province. As a child he had a …… for causing trouble and grew up watching his successful samarium father train people. At the age of about 13 he got his first kill using only a wooden sword by entering a tournament and then later decided to leave his village at the age of 15 with nothing but his wits and his saying that stated “win at any means”. Miyamoto Musashi then fought in his first battle at the age of about 17 against Tokugawa Ieyasu army in the battle of Sekigahara and managed to survived after the loss of his troop so he decided to travel around japan and master his fighting technics, compete in many duels and meet summaries that where masters of the sword. By the time he was 28 or 29 he had and won about 60 duels without using any particular strategy as found at the age