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Historical person
Takuan Sōhō is represented in the linked historical fiction through exploration, travel and cultural encounter. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Eiji Yoshikawa’s Earth, Water and Fire, captured and disciplined by the Zen monk Takuan Sōhō, he emerges under the name Miyamoto Musashi and begins a wandering search for mastery.
Series
This three-volume edition presents Alexander Bennett’s unabridged English translation of Eiji Yoshikawa’s novel Musashi. Beginning in the aftermath of the Battle of Sekigahara, it follows Takezō’s transformation into Miyamoto Musashi, his duels and rivalries, his search for discipline and his eventual confrontation with Sasaki Kojirō.
All books in this series
