Miyamoto Musashi, the Swordsman Who Stopped Fighting | The Book of Five Rings
Fall asleep to the true story of Miyamoto Musashi... the most famous swordsman in Japanese history, and the thirty quiet years the legend forgot to keep. Everyone knows the sentence. More than sixty duels, and never beaten. What almost nobody mentions is where that sentence comes from... Musashi wrote it himself, near the end of his life, and it only covers the years up to about twenty-nine. He lived for another thirty years after that. He served at castles. He taught. He carved, and wrote, and painted. And in his last two years he sat down with a brush and tried to set out everything he had understood, so that it would not go with him. Tonight we also go looking for his most famous opponent... and find something quieter than the legend. In the earliest record we have, the man on that island is given only the name of his school. The narration repeats three times in total, each time a little quieter, so you can fall asleep at any point without the room going suddenly silent. No mid-roll ads. 1 hour 50 minutes. ⚠️ Narration is AI-assisted, with an original script based on historical research. Where the record is uncertain, this story says so. Also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cFpYitg9iQQ