During three y ears of solitary confinement, he delves into the classics of Japan and Chin a. The lovely Otsu, seeing in Musashi her ideal of manliness, frees him from h is 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 stan dstill-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 regain s 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 decad es of civil strife. The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swords man. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition.
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