The Best Scenes from Musashi Author:Eiji Yoshikawa Written in the early twentieth century, this indigenous Japanese novel recounts the life & times of Japan's greatest swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi -- a man who began life as an over-eager and rather brutish young lout but who, through the discipline of Japan's "way of the sword," turned himself into a master of his chosen weapon. — The original ver... more »sion of MUSASHI is 970 pages long. This version is 231 pages and contains some of the best parts of the original version. (Translated into English by Charles S. Terry.)« less