![]() ![]() During three years of solitary confinement, he delves into the classics of Japan and China. ![]() The lovely Otsu, seeing in Musashi her ideal of manliness, frees him from his tortuous punishment, but he is recaptured and imprisoned. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive, and brings life in his own village to a standstill - until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk. 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. ![]() Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. ![]()
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