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Saga of Musashi Miyamoto

by David Kirk 2 books in this series

The Saga of Musashi Miyamoto follows the historical swordsman from his youth in the final years of Japan’s Sengoku period into the new political order created by Tokugawa victory. Child of Vengeance portrays Bennosuke’s upbringing, his conflicted inheritance from his father Munisai Shinmen and his emergence as Miyamoto Musashi after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

Sword of Honour continues Musashi’s journey as a masterless warrior in early Tokugawa Japan. His conflict with the Yoshioka school in Kyoto becomes a wider challenge to inherited ideas of honour, service and obedience. Across both novels, David Kirk combines documented episodes from Musashi’s life with fiction shaped around the gaps in the record.

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Books in this series (2 books)

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#1 – Child of Vengeance

David Kirk

In the closing years of Japan’s Sengoku period, thirteen-year-old Bennosuke lives apart from the other children of his village. His mother is dead, his celebrated father Munisai Shinmen has spent years serving distant lords, and his uncle Dorinbo has tried to guide him towards scholarship and…

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#2 – Sword of Honour

David Kirk

After surviving the Battle of Sekigahara, Miyamoto Musashi rejects the expectation that a defeated samurai should die for his former allegiance. He becomes a masterless wanderer and travels towards Kyoto, arguing that unquestioning service to a lord has turned the warrior code into a system of…

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