Ichijoji

Sumi-e, strategy and swordsmanship - inspired by the arts of Miyamoto Musashi

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Saturday, 23 February 2013

Recent Publications

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In the interest of those readers of this blog whose first language is not English, I have been a little remiss in not publicizin...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013

In Business - The Book of Five Rings

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Corporate Kendo - Tips for the Marketplace ( from  Samurai Businessman , New York, June 29, 1981) Back in the 1980’s, T...
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Saturday, 26 March 2011

Neko No Myojutsu - The Mysterious Skills of the Old Cat

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The Cornered Rat Attacks the Cat - Ogata Gekko (1892) Neko no Myojutsu is a story that many people will be familiar with. I first came a...
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Sunday, 20 March 2011

The Inner secrets - Questioning Old Manuals

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Issun saki wa yami - an inch ahead is darkness Of course, here,  the disastrous events of the 11th are on everyone's mind. With a risi...
Sunday, 30 January 2011

Musashi takes a Bath

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Musashi breaks out of the bath-house, and he's not happy. A triptych by Utagawa Kuniyoshi The fictional Musashi has a life of hi...
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Saturday, 8 January 2011

The Bushu Denraiki - source document for the Musashi story

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This was my winter reading - well a bit of it, anyway. The commonly told of Miyamoto Musashi is a much patched version taken from a var...
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Chris Hellman
The title of this blog, Ichijoji, refers to the site of the battle between Miyamoto Musashi and the massed forces of the Yoshioka clan. It was also, as it happens, not more than ten minutes away from where I used to live, on the eastern edge of Kyoto. It is, for me, powerfully redolent of the mystery and romance of Japan. Musashi himself is an emblematic figure, and his skill in a range of arts to which I have devoted years of study myself -swordsmanship, strategy and sumi-e, make it an apt title for this blog.
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