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Ron Webb
22 de julio de 2026
Rich story telling
There is history and there is story telling, mix the two and you get an epic novel. Eiji Yoshikawa does this to perfection. He creates some fictional characters but preserves the real culture and daily life of the period. His detailed knowledge of place, and understanding of samurai traditions gives the reader a stunning view of Japan in the period between 1600 and 1612.Ver másVer menos
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Kenny Weaver
12 de julio de 2026
Must Read!
Absolutely incredible—I couldn’t put this book down. The author brings the world to life with vivid detail and creates characters that are truly memorable. It’s not only beautifully written but also grounded in impressive historical accuracy. I was completely hooked from beginning to end.Ver másVer menos
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Mason Bush
25 de julio de 2026
10/10. This is a book I will read time and time again.
Jocko podcast led me to this book. This is a phenomenal read front to back. Don’t worry about the thin paper, it fits the atmosphere of the book. The book is full of triumph, loss, lessons, and blood. If you are at all interested in reading about The Way, get this book. I will now be buying everything I can from this author.Ver másVer menos
charley
30 de mayo de 2024
An Beautiful Journey
This book is hard to rate. It is long and sometimes inconsistent in its character arcs and subplots, which left me feeling a bit disconnected at times. Over the course of its dense 970 pages, it seemed to go in a thousand directions—sometimes rapidly, sometimes at a snail’s pace. All that said, this book felt less about the story, the battles, or even the conclusion. Instead, it offered a deep dive into the life, mind, and way of a samurai in feudal Japan.Packed with history, culture, philosophy, and personality, the book takes you on a non-linear adventure through the imagined life of Musashi and the many characters involved in his story. Honestly, it’s probably the best three-star book I’ve ever read, and I would still recommend it to anyone interested in feudal Japan, so I’m giving it a 4 out of 5.Ver másVer menos
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silas carlos
6 de agosto de 2026
Hella dopee
Hella dope
Mad Max
9 de febrero de 2017
Brilliant
True masterpiece, unique in its kind, and superbly written. This is one of the few books which I've read in a long time that I didn't want the story to end. Despite seeming a dauntingly long and hefty novel, the story flows at a neckbreaking pace, full of surprises and clever plots at every turn. The book I would most compare it to is James Clavell's epic "Shogun", but besides the fact that both stories take place more or less in the same time period in Japan (beginning of Edo period), the comparison ends there. Whereas "Shogun" describes Japan from the eyes of a foreigner, and deals with high-court intrigues, Musashi's fictional story (albeit loosely based on events in his life including all his ill-fated duels) deals with the common day-to-day life in Japan, the peasantry, the samurai, the secret lives of Geishas and pleasure quarters, Buddhist priests and itinerant monks, of families torn by the everlasting conflicts that was raging between North and South daimyo factions at that time (Osaka vs Edo courts), the tribulations of ronin who were left masterless after the battle of Sekigahara and who were roaming the country incessantly in search of odd jobs or who would become evil doers. Such a man was Musashi, who being on the losing side of the Sekigahara battle, started a life long wandering journey throughout Japan, perfecting his sword techniques and becoming, slowly, the most prestigious swordsman of all time. Although the book only recounts 12 years of this journey, these were without doubt his formative years, and the characters he meets, loves or fights with along the way all edge him, little by little, towards achieving his goal, the Way of the Sword. Every encounter Musashi goes through is a lesson of life and death, something that even we, as readers, can apply in our daily lives centuries later. It's timeless advice.The second thing I thoroughly enjoyed about the book was the translation. The way the story flows, the vocabulary used as well as the dialogues are very well rendered to the point where I was actually believing the text to be written originally in English. There's also quite a lot of light-hearted, downright comical dialogues, which give the story a lighter tone despite the somber aspect and seriousness of the background story. I actually wonder if this is the work of the translator (by the mere fact that eastern languages are not always easy to transpose into western ones) or if Eiji Yoshikawa himself inserted those funny passages. In any case, this novel was a hidden gem that I would highly recommend to anyone looking for brilliant historical fiction or simply who wants to learn more about Japanese culture during the Edo period.

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Rich story telling

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10/10. This is a book I will read time and time again.

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