# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T01:40:12.788Z

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description: "A swordsman who fought 62 duels and never lost, then laid down his blades to write the manual. Musashi's Book of Five Rings distilled a life of combat into strategy that outlasted the age of the sword."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1583, Miyamoto Musashi built his reputation through an undefeated record across 62 duels, wielding two blades in a style no one else had mastered. He founded the Niten Ichi-ryū school of swordsmanship and fought alongside Tokugawa forces at Sekigahara, Osaka, and the Shimabara Rebellion. In his final years he turned from steel to ink, writing The Book of Five Rings — a treatise on his martial philosophy — and Dokkōdō, a spare set of precepts on solitude and discipline. He gave both texts to his student Terao Magonojō seven days before his death on 13 June 1645. Japan now calls him kensei: sword saint.