Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa - Review

Musashi
by Eiji Yoshikawa
Publisher: Kodansha International
Publication Date: July 1995
ISBN: 9784770019578
970 Pages
Historical Fiction


Publisher's Description:

The classical samurai novel about a genuine exploits of a most important swordsman.

Miyamoto Musashi was a kid of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to a great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by a hope of becoming a samurai--without unequivocally meaningful what it meant--he regains alertness after a conflict to find himself fibbing defeated, dazed as good as bleeding among thousands of a dead as good as dying. On his approach home, he commits a unreasonable act, becomes a refugee as good as brings hold up in his own village to a standstill--until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk.

The poetic Otsu, seeing in Musashi her ideal of manliness, frees him from his curved punishment, though he is recaptured as good as imprisoned. During 3 years of solitary confinement, he delves in to a classics of Japan as good as China. When he is set free again, he rejects a position of samurai as good as for a next multiform years pursues his goal relentlessly, seeking neither to left nor to right.

Ever so slowly it dawns upon him which following a Way of a Sword is not simply a matter of finding a aim for his beast strength. Continually striving to undiluted his technique, which leads him to a unique impression of fighting with dual swords simultaneously, he travels distant as good as wide, challenging fighters of most disciplines, receiving inlet to be his ultimate as good as severest clergyman as good as undergoing a severe precision of those who follow a Way. He is magnificently successful in his encounters, though in a Art of War he perceives a approach of pacific as good as prosperous governance as good as disciplines hims! elf to b e a genuine human being.

He becomes a demure favourite to a horde of people whose lives he has touched as good as been touched by. And, inevitably, he has to array his ability opposite a naked knife edge of his biggest rival.


My Opinion:

I review Musashi as partial of a readalong with Jenners during Life...With Books. we previously posted about my celebration of a mass practice of Book 1, Book 2, as good as Books 3 & 4. Since we didn't continue to post about a after books in this epic story we longed for to put together a wrap-up review to simulate upon my perspective of a book as a whole.

What we liked:

• Learning about Musashi's life.
• Seeing a course of his skills, philosophy, as good as personal majority over a course of a book.
• The story was good written.
• The main characters were precocious as good as interesting.
• The story included wit as good as humor.
• Learning about what hold up was similar to for a Japanese people in Musashi's time.
• Entertaining conflict scenes.

What we didn't like:

• The length - While a epic length of a story gives a feel for a breadth as good as abyss of Musashi's personal growth as good as training, it was very long, as good as there were sections in a center which we had to work to push through.
• The repeated tract elements - For a most partial a tract elements were engaging as good as fun to read, though there were sure aspects which were repetitive, such as: Musashi precision up a immature child who wanders off as good as crosses paths with Otsu (who is acid for Musashi), as good as in general how everyone is always acid for any alternative with slight misses - meeting friends of those they have been seeking for though meaningful who they are.
• The abrupt ending. You know who wins a battle, though you don't get to find out what happens to Musashi in his personal life.
• The most supporting impression names which were tough to rem! ember/di stinguish.

Overall Musashi was a good chronological fiction read, though it took some dedication upon my partial to make it through. Although it was a genuine page turner in a beginning (for about a initial 200 pages), a gait did slow in a center of a book.

Musashi's hold up as good as a culture which he lived in were fascinating, however, we frequency felt similar to we was sucked in to a story upon a deeper level (that experience you get when you have been celebration of a mass as good as a genuine universe slips divided whilst a story comes to life). we think which partial of a reason this was difficult for me was since there were so most unknown impression names to remember, as good as we would get jolted out of a story by my inability to recollect who a sure impression was.

I did feel similar to we schooled a lot about what a hold up of a samurai was similar to in Musashi's time, as good as we would suggest this book to anyone who wants to learn some-more about a story of a samurai as good as a samurai lifestyle.

Rating: 4/5















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