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...Matrix-shmatrix... Samurai!:)
Jan. 7th, 2009 06:12 pmJapan is so cool, dude! Even when there wasn't J-rock there were those cool samurai guys jumping with the swords all around the place - huzzzah!:D
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В Японии всегда было круто. Даже когда джап-рока не было там все равно было круто - кругом прыгали такие классные чуваки с мечами, самураями назывались... хазза! Угу, "жапанизЬм - это так изыскано":)
( ДУЭЛЬ МУСАСИ И КОДЗИРО )
You may remember Miyamoto Musashi, my fan-girlish obsession from feudal Japan:) He was a seriouspunk samurai, duelist, a founder of a swordsmanship style/school and overall a legend. He also was a painter, a sculptor, a poet and a writer and had some other cool hobbies as well, like making of fancy tsuba (handguards for the swords). One of the most famous episodes from Musashi's life is a duel with another master swordsman Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryujima island in 1612.
As legend goes, Musashi intendedly was for some three hours late to the place of the duel, and, as he expected, he found Kojiro boiling and hoofing the sand of the island beach. Kojiro used a nodachi sword during the combat (as the legend says he had the longest sword amongst samurai of his time), while Musashi defeated and killed him with a oversized wooden bokken, that he made with his wakizashi from a spare oar, while sailing to the island, even though Musashi's usual weapon of choice and the technique he became famous for was a daisho pair of swords. The legend also has it that Musashi kept Kojiro facing the blinding sunset during the duel, and some people call it cheating... I bet that Musashi called it "strategy". He wrote a book about the strategy later in his life, you know...:) Another Musashi's wise strategic move was that immediately right after the end of the duel he jumped back in his boat and departed from the island before Kojiro's apprentices (he was an instructor in a fighting school at the time and brought a bunch of his students with him) get over the shock and killed him. That was the last fatal duel of Miyamoto Musashi, he had never killed his opponents not in a battle after it. Cool story, huh? :)
Here are two different movie-versions of the duel (1, 2). Notice how the details are almost the same... I like the version that I put here the best, though, because: first - it seems more historically correct - at the time of the duel Konjiro was 27 and Musashi about 29 years old; second - Kojiro is a very cutel guy here, even his voice is beautiful. Though Kojiro is usually played by good-looking actors... for a dramatic contrast with Musashi's vagabond appearance, I guess.... But hey, punks rule!;))
Musashi and Kojiro are still fighting on Ganryujima island - in the sculptural form.:
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на острове Ганрюдзима поединок Миямото Мусаси и Сасаки Кодзиро продолжается вечно - в скульптурной форме:
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В Японии всегда было круто. Даже когда джап-рока не было там все равно было круто - кругом прыгали такие классные чуваки с мечами, самураями назывались... хазза! Угу, "жапанизЬм - это так изыскано":)
( ДУЭЛЬ МУСАСИ И КОДЗИРО )
You may remember Miyamoto Musashi, my fan-girlish obsession from feudal Japan:) He was a serious
As legend goes, Musashi intendedly was for some three hours late to the place of the duel, and, as he expected, he found Kojiro boiling and hoofing the sand of the island beach. Kojiro used a nodachi sword during the combat (as the legend says he had the longest sword amongst samurai of his time), while Musashi defeated and killed him with a oversized wooden bokken, that he made with his wakizashi from a spare oar, while sailing to the island, even though Musashi's usual weapon of choice and the technique he became famous for was a daisho pair of swords. The legend also has it that Musashi kept Kojiro facing the blinding sunset during the duel, and some people call it cheating... I bet that Musashi called it "strategy". He wrote a book about the strategy later in his life, you know...:) Another Musashi's wise strategic move was that immediately right after the end of the duel he jumped back in his boat and departed from the island before Kojiro's apprentices (he was an instructor in a fighting school at the time and brought a bunch of his students with him) get over the shock and killed him. That was the last fatal duel of Miyamoto Musashi, he had never killed his opponents not in a battle after it. Cool story, huh? :)
Here are two different movie-versions of the duel (1, 2). Notice how the details are almost the same... I like the version that I put here the best, though, because: first - it seems more historically correct - at the time of the duel Konjiro was 27 and Musashi about 29 years old; second - Kojiro is a very cutel guy here, even his voice is beautiful. Though Kojiro is usually played by good-looking actors... for a dramatic contrast with Musashi's vagabond appearance, I guess.... But hey, punks rule!;))
Musashi and Kojiro are still fighting on Ganryujima island - in the sculptural form.:
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на острове Ганрюдзима поединок Миямото Мусаси и Сасаки Кодзиро продолжается вечно - в скульптурной форме:
