Musashi
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the turbulent backdrop of feudal Japan in the early seventeenth century, Musashi chronicles the extraordinary life of Miyamoto Musashi — history's most celebrated samurai — as he transforms from a wild, unruly youth who survives the catastrophic Battle of Sekigahara into a peerless warrior, philosopher, and artist. Eiji Yoshikawa's epic masterpiece traces Musashi's relentless quest for enlightenment through the ancient code of Bushido, weaving together breathtaking duels, complex rivalries, and profound moral reckonings against a richly rendered landscape of temples, mountain passes, and bustling castle towns. Yoshikawa's prose, masterfully translated for Western audiences, carries the sweeping grandeur of classical Japanese literature while maintaining the propulsive energy of the finest adventure writing. Beneath the steel of every sword stroke lies a meditation on discipline, honor, love, and what it truly means to perfect one's spirit — questions as urgent today as they were four centuries ago. Whether Musashi is read as a thrilling saga of combat and survival or as a deeply humanist portrait of a man at war with his own nature, it stands as one of the great novels of the twentieth century, leaving readers to wonder: can a warrior ever truly find peace?
Author: Eiji Yoshikawa
Format: Paperback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the turbulent backdrop of feudal Japan in the early seventeenth century, Musashi chronicles the extraordinary life of Miyamoto Musashi — history's most celebrated samurai — as he transforms from a wild, unruly youth who survives the catastrophic Battle of Sekigahara into a peerless warrior, philosopher, and artist. Eiji Yoshikawa's epic masterpiece traces Musashi's relentless quest for enlightenment through the ancient code of Bushido, weaving together breathtaking duels, complex rivalries, and profound moral reckonings against a richly rendered landscape of temples, mountain passes, and bustling castle towns. Yoshikawa's prose, masterfully translated for Western audiences, carries the sweeping grandeur of classical Japanese literature while maintaining the propulsive energy of the finest adventure writing. Beneath the steel of every sword stroke lies a meditation on discipline, honor, love, and what it truly means to perfect one's spirit — questions as urgent today as they were four centuries ago. Whether Musashi is read as a thrilling saga of combat and survival or as a deeply humanist portrait of a man at war with his own nature, it stands as one of the great novels of the twentieth century, leaving readers to wonder: can a warrior ever truly find peace?