EPISODE 103: The Lone Samurai, Miyamoto Musashi (Part 2)

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 133 minutes

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“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.” Miyamoto Musashi Ever since I started History on Fire, one topic has been the most consistently requested by listeners. Over the years, I received hundreds of messages asking me to cover the life of Miyamoto Musashi. That time has come. Here we go. Musashi has been the subject of one of the greatest bestsellers ever written, a novel by Eiji Yoshikawa that sold over 120 million copies. And yet, the story of his life is mixed with so many myths and legends that it’s rather difficult to separate fact from fiction. He lived across the late 1500s and early 1600s, during the waning phases of the Warring States period. By that point, after over 100 years of on and off civil war, Japan was a country suffering with PTSD. Soldiers and civilians alike had all been exposed to insane amounts of bloodshed and brutality during the Sengoku Jidai. Musashi was born in the midst of that, so it’s little surprised that his is a tale filled with intensity and violence. In this second and final chapter of this series, I’ll explore some of the key events in the latter parts of Musashi’s life: from the siege of Osaka to the Shimabara Rebellion, from his adopting sons to his grief over the death of his daughter, from his exploration of Zen Buddhism to his writing of the Book of Five Rings, and much more! If you feel generous and enjoy History on Fire, please consider joining my Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/historyonfire to access plenty of bonus content. All the links to History on Fire social media can be found at https://linktr.ee/danielebolelli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 103. This is the second and final part of this
0:07.0	series on the life of Miamoto Musashi. I'd like to remind you that the main thing that's keeping history on fire and business at the moment are listeners like you supporting the show through Patreon or substock.
0:22.0	On Patreon there are multiple options you can support at various
0:26.1	levels the entry level is five dollars a month which is less than you would give to
0:31.6	a waiter you don't like if you just go one time out for dinner in a month.
0:37.6	So it's not a...
0:38.6	I mean I still appreciate it a lot, you know, it's like anything that you decide to part with your harder money to just share them with me, that's
0:46.2	insanely appreciated. But hopefully is not a prohibitive cost and with $5 a month you get
0:52.3	bonus episodes that I release exclusively for supporter on
0:56.3	Patreon and sub-stock.
0:59.2	Patron as I was mentioning allows multiple levels to donate and at the highest level I want to give a shout out to
1:06.2	Mark Chang, Chimimoxam, Charsa Corsa, and Justin Bourne.
1:11.6	If you would like to join this brave band of heroes you can check out
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1:29.9	subscribe for free just to get some mini history on fire documentaries I released there that is link three forward slash Danielle bollale link three spelled L-I-N-K-T-R dot E-E-4-Wor-S-My name which is Daniel
1:47.0	Boley-D-A-N-I-E-L-E-B-O-L-E-L-L-I. Having said that, three quick shout-outs before we got going. First one and I'll do this as quick
2:00.8	as quick as possible because I know some of you guys just want to get to the episodes.
2:03.8	So just to get to business in late April 2024, I'll be heading to Japan as part of a tour organized
2:12.0	by Geek Nation Tours.
2:14.0	There are not many, but there are I think two or three spots left available if anybody's interested.
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