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Musashi - From the Book of Five Rings, pg. 130 (1991)

Location: Manga - Interior Pages
Artist: Jiro Kuwata (All)

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Location: Manga - Interior Pages
Title: Musashi - From the Book of Five Rings, pg. 130 (1991)*
Artist:  Jiro Kuwata (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Interior Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 204
Likes on CAF: 2
Comments: 1
Added to Site: 10/17/2024

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Jiro Kuwata was a well known mangaka (manga artist) who began working in the field at the age of only 13. Kuwata is most well known in the US as the mangaka on the 1960s manga adaptation of Batman.

Musashi - From the Book of Five Rings is a short manga that adapts some of what can be found in The Book of Five Rings and tells stories from Miyamoto Musashi's life. The pages that I own (125-130) describe the (fictional/mythical) encounter between Musashi and Tsukahara Bokuden. Like Musashi, Bokuden is considered a "kensei" (sword saint). However, Bokuden died before Musashi was born, so their meeting would have been impossible. If you look through the translation in the description of each of these pages, you'll see that the manga explains this by suggesting that the encounter was a hallucination.

Translation (please excuse any mistakes):

No! The spirit of Tsukahara Bokuden appeared. I'm sure of it.

If it had a tail, it was definitely a raccoon!

What a stupid thing to say.

Now, which one was it? I wonder...

After three years of training myself, I thought it was time to show the world what I could do.

First, I set my sights on the famous Yoshioka Dojo in Kyoto!

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Marcus Wai Member Since 2005
Posted On 10/17/2024

Even though it's read right to left, the main image is left to right having our focus begin on the more inked areas and the lone figure looking outward.