He is supposed to have been born around 1584 in Miyamoto, Mimasaka province, although that is perhaps the place where ... As many ronin (lordless samurai) had joined the insurgents, the services of ...

The legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi ... In Gorin no sho, Musashi describes himself as the Samurai of Harima, his birth province. According to his son Iori, Musashi was born into a samurai ...

restlessly inventive look at 17th-century master swordsman Musashi Miyamoto, from the pen of the famed Mamoru Oshii (“Ghost in the Shell”). Full of digressions (even into Western and Chinese ...