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The Legend of Musashi

Imaginary Worlds

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Mushashi, the Book of Five Rings

The book of five rings is what cements musashi into the popular imagination. Chie says there's this one painting that musashi did of a bird perched on top of a very skinny, vertical tree branch. That painting just amazes her because it shows her much focus, an concentration musashi had. Mushashi always believed that there were different elements of battle that you had to master and to pay attention to. It parallels, or at least he thought it paralleled, the different physical elements in life.

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