>japans greatest swordsman>cheated constantly
>>747648303didn't they lose WWII?
The famous of story of how he beat Sasaki Kojiro was that he fought him with the sun to his back to blind the guy cause he knew he'd get his ass kicked
>>747648357Only because usa cheated with atomic bombJaps owned muricans elsewhere
Yeah, he was an asshole serial killer that just went around killing other swordsman, using underhanded methods. Most japs portray him as such.
>>747648357You mean that famous war that was fought exclusively with swords? Yes, they lost.
>cheating BADAccording to who? Also, why would I adhere to your moral standings?
>>747648303>>747648381That was kind of the point and the point of his book. It was basically him demystifying the samurai bullshit and doing a tell-all"Hey, swords are fun. You know what's not fun? Fucking dying. Cheat. Cheat constantly. Kill that fucker any way that works. Also swords don't have mystic power or anything, use two of them. Use a gun. Stab that fucker with a rusty nail idk fuck."
>>747648303The point was being pragmatic, either way Redditmoto Twittersashi was a total fraud.
>>747648479japanese society at the time
>>747648495No. In the Book of Five Rings, Musashi writes nothing about cheating. He studied the sword intensely, was proud of his skills and fully believed he won because he was just that fucking good. In his own mind, he was fighting honorably and with genuine skill. He took many magical-seeming elements of swordsmanship as hard fact and developed his beliefs. Yoshikawa's novel "Musashi" is pure fiction.
>>747648303Niten Ichiryu is the SCHOOL OF VICTORYDo whatever you can to win and stay alivePlay to your strengths and the enemies weaknessesThrow your wakizashi as your opener just in case you get a lucky instant downand his most important lesson from his book, excluding the VoidPRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICEIs his earnest plea to readers so that no matter what you do in life, you'll be capable. His line that swords should only think about cutting is also almost always applicable too
>>747648357That wasn't a goddam sword fight. you first post, should be exiled to a gulag in /k/ poster
He's a Kensei that's Sword Saint, he's basically Jesus in Japan.
>>747648394>Japs owned muricans elsewherelol no they didn't, they had an abysmal track record. Which makes you wonder how retarded the chinese were given the japanese slaughtered them by the million.
>>747648381Who cares neither of these people existed in real except MAYBE Musashi
>>747648923>No. In the Book of Five Rings, Musashi writes nothing about cheating.Well he calls it strategy. And some of the things he wrote do imply that he "cheated" in some of his fights.
>>747648394They owned them until Midway then it was the end for the Japs after thatJapan knew it couldn't win a protracted war with the US btw. The hoped to cripple the US quickly at Pearl Harbor and get a quick end in the Pacific
>>747648394Except the part where Japan lost island after island and most of their fleet, including their GUREATESTO BATTEROHSHIPPUH EVAH.
