Episode #55- Who Was Japan's Greatest Swordsman? (Part I)

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The samurai swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is the archetypal lone-wolf warrior. Legend has it that in course of his life he fought over sixty duels and never once lost. His psychological strategies and unique two sworded fighting style made him one of the most famous martial artists in Japan's history. However, many of Musashi's most celebrated exploits have been distorted by centuries of myth-making. What should we believe about the famously scruffy swordsman? Tune in and find out how flabbergasted monks, Harry Potter, and the Samurai Forest Gump all play a role in the story.
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0:42.6	There's a story that in the late 1500s, there was a renowned martial arts master
0:49.0	who set out on a journey across his native Japan.
0:53.2	His name was Arima Kihei, and he had been schooled in a unique form of martial arts
0:59.4	that the Shinto priests claimed had been taught to them by the gods.
1:04.2	In an attempt to perfectly prepare his mind for the art of swordsmanship,
1:09.6	Kihei secluded himself in a Shinto temple, spoke to no one,
1:14.0	and lived the life of an ascetic monk.
1:17.2	After 1,000 days of this seclusion, the gods blessed him with a revelation,
1:24.4	a completely new style of sword fighting that he dubbed the single sword technique.
1:32.4	To test this new style, Kihei set out on a journey across Japan.
1:37.7	His plan was to stop in every village he passed and post a general challenge in the town square.
1:44.4	He would put up a note that simply read,
1:47.2	he who wishes to fight me with the sword should write his name and the date of the duel here on this
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