"582.5)}Miyamoto Musashi:" "Kimura Takuya 132)}Miyamoto Musashi attempts to gain a successful career through the sword... 582.5)}Sasaki Kojirō:" "Sawamura Ikki 92)}...by first visiting the Yoshioka dōjō in Kyoto." "578.5)}Otsū:" "Maki Yko 86)}Confronted with their overwhelming numbers... 582.5)}Yoshioka Seijūrō:" "Matsuda Shota to a match." "576.5)}Akemi:" "Kaho 580.5)}Okō:" "Takaoka Saki 574.5)}Yoshioka Denshichirō:" "Aoki Munetaka 576.5)}Hon'ami Kōetsu:" "Morimoto Leo" "Watch out there." "90)}Ahead of his decisive battle with Yoshika Seijūrō... 580.5)}Ueda Ryōhei:" "Azuma Mikihisa 582.5)}Gion Tōji:" "David Ito at Hōzōin Temple." "580.5)}Aoki Tanzaemon:" "Tsurumi Shingo 584.1)}Ikeda Terumasa:" "Sasano Takashi 577.7)}Ishimoda Geki:" "Ry Raita 582.5)}Priest:" "Hiraizumi Sei in accordance with what Nikkan had told him... 580.9)}Iori:" "Suzuki Fuku 582.5)}Agon:" "Ukaji Takashi" "Yagyū Sekishūsai." "580.9)}Kimura Sukekurō:" "Hakamada Yoshihiko 582.5)}Hosokawa Tadatoshi:" "Watanabe Dai 582.5)}Iwama Kakubei:" "Imai Masayuki 584.1)}Sasuke:" "Akeda Yasuto 142)}I will first propose battle with the people of this castle." "579.3)}Akakabe Yasouma:" "Guadalcanal Taka 580.5)}Shōda Kizaemon:" "Takasugi Wataru" "Twin Sword Style!" "What should I do to win against Yoshioka Seijūrō?" "I heard the sound of it." "The sound that should never be heard." "Musashi tastes both suffering and discord." "582.5)}Nikkan:" "Nishida Toshiyuki" "I'm a fledgling!" "while trying to catch up with Musashi in Kyoto... 582.5)}Yoshino Dayū:" "Nakatani Miki who holds an unjustified resentment against her." "582.5)}Osugi:" "Baisho Mitsuko 580.5)}Yagyū Sekishūsai:" "Takeda Tetsuya 86)}Musashi had again reached an hour of destiny." "582.5)}Myōshūni:" "Yachigusa Kaoru 586.5)}Matahatchi:" "Yusuke Santa-Maria 134)}The swordsman Yoshioka Seijūrō was waiting for Musashi." "580.5)}Takuan:" "Kagawa Teruyuki the time was quietly flowing along towards to when... 576.5)}Original Work:" "Yoshikawa Eiji ("Miyamoto Musashi")" "582.5)}Screenplay:" "Sato Shimako the legendary Sasaki Kojirō." "580.5)}Music:" "Hattori Takayuki" "I should never hear... that sound." "582.5)}Narration:" "Ichihara Etsuko" "Obaba?" "Priest Takuan... what's with that kodachi?" "90)}Kodachi - short sword carried by samurai" "Let me go!" "Obaba..." "Obaba!" "580.5)}Director:" "Kanefuku Ryōsuke" "Otsū!" "?" "596)}Sanjūsangen-dō Temple" "Miyamoto Musashi faced off against Yoshioka Seijūrō at Sanjūsangen-dō Temple." "580)}Miyamoto Musashi" "Yoshioka Seijūrō." "590)}Yoshioka Seijūrō 687.333)}Miyamoto Musashi." "Let's go." "Hurry and come." "592)}Yoshioka Denshichirō" "Twin Sword Style... though I had heard of one stroke swords..." "I lose if I show a chink in my armor." "I win if I can find a chink in his armor." "I heard the sound of it." "The sound that should never be heard." "Elder Brother..." "Elder Brother!" "Takezō." "too." "582)}Akemi" "68)}Heiwa Fansubs Presents:" "366)\cHA9FEFC}Miyamoto Musashi 444)}Second Night" "Myōshūni-sama." "but I must go to Edo from here." "596)}Takuan could you keep her here for a while?" "592)}Myōshūni happily." "696)}Otsū-san was here with us for four years." "580)}Otsū" "Welcome back." "588)}Yoshino Dayū" "wonderful." "which do you prefer?" "Tōdai here or Yoshino Dayū?" "Ueda-dono!" "that was wonderful." "Such bliss." "Supreme bliss." "Where is the courtesan Koyuki?" "What's the matter?" "It's still awhile before she comes." "When will that be?" "I wanted to hear them playing together." "dance!" "Dance!" "Dance!" "I'm much obliged." "Isn't that... blood?" "No." "Merely a scarlet peony petal." "huh..." "Where's Musashi?" "In the red-light district of Rokujō!" "Kill him..." "Block off the red-light district!" "Get revenge!" "Yes sir!" "594)}Gion Tōji let's go!" "584)}Ueda Ryōhei 688)}Go on ahead." "Young Master..." "Young Master!" "Don't let Musashi get out of the red-light district!" "Search for him!" "Yes sir!" "impressive." "Jōyū-dono." "Isn't it about time we took our leave?" "that's right." "Musashi-sama..." "You will be spending the night here." "I cannot have you disappearing on me this evening." "wouldn't you like to?" "You could stay the night as well." "that'd be nice." "I'd love that a lot." "No." "I'll return with Kōetsu-dono as well." "saying that leaves a bad taste in the mouth." "600)}Hon'ami Kōetsu" "Stay here and have a nice rest." "It's fine if you take hold of this good opportunity and then come back tomorrow." "Dayū here has gone to the trouble of showing her concern for you as well." "Concern?" "Yoshino Dayū." "Has something happened?" "Yes." "only those gentlemen other than Musashi-sama can freely leave the red-light district." "Musashi-sama...?" "What is it?" "Even a woman like me who is unfamiliar with the arts of war can tell from your conduct and expression that you appear to be a man who could be slashed to death at any moment." "What?" "Have I hurt your feelings?" "My conduct..." "Do you mean you want to see a human being getting slashed?" "Are you making fun of me?" "wish to try and become a human being similar to this biwa." "90)}Biwa" " Japanese lute" "It has only these four strings and a board for its trunk...." "And yet a rich variety of sounds can come out of it... isn't it?" "concerning those mysterious tonal colors..." "If you split the board apart and look into the heart of the biwa the source of this mysterious thing can be understood." "Take a look." "isn't it?" "I think all those variations in sound..." "It is this crosspiece that acts as both the bones supporting the body of the biwa as well as its heart." "if this crosspiece was merely straight and stiff and everything was tight and tense you wouldn't get much sound from it." "You could say that where the biwa's tonal richness is born from is in the power of both ends of this crosspiece and its ability to move around with a moderate amount of slack." "I believe the mental readiness with which we humans should live should be similar to that of this biwa." "You are strong." "Far too strong." "you should become much weaker." "He's here!" "It's Musashi!" "What are you doing..." "Let's go!" "Yes!" "wait!" "What is it?" "!" "What is your intention in making me wait?" "I don't think it's necessary to answer that here." "are you well prepared?" "Prepared?" "A samurai's preparations go on even while they are sleeping." "Come at me at any time." "before that!" "Do the Yoshiokas wish to assassinate me?" "Or do you wish to defeat me fairly?" "Have you come with a grudge?" "Have you come to get revenge for the match I had?" "Tell me which it is!" "I'll tell you so that you'll know." "Denshichirō how could we of the Yoshioka clan allow you to go on living?" "!" "but we must take your neck for that." "I will be your opponent as long as my entire body and two swords can go on." "one thing!" "What we'll be doing here is different than just using bokken." "often used during practice matches" "Itakura will come!" "94)}Itakura Katsushige was the magistrate of Kyoto" "Making an uproar in front of the main gate to the red-light district is uncouth." "If a government official like Itakura were to come here and get involved you can expect he won't treat this as a mere quarrel case." "each and every one of you would become a disgrace to all those who call themselves samurai." "And as for the justification the Yashioka's teachers and students are using here wouldn't that rather make you the laughingstock of the world?" "What?" "!" "according to the customs of the sword be done at some chosen time and place?" "Indeed." "It truly mustn't be done in the streets." "who are you?" "590)}Sasaki Kojirō 680)}I am Ganryū." "Who was Sasaki Kojirō." "Sasaki Kojirō!" "Sasaki...!" "Kojirō?" "Sasaki Kojirō-dono would you guarantee that Musashi here won't run away until the chosen day without fail?" "I could do that..." "How about it?" "I agree." "So he says." "Okay." "tomorrow morning during the final third of the Hour of the Tiger." "so about 4:30am at Sagarimatsu." "That Sagarimatsu will be the meeting place." "All right." "Seijūrō and Denshichirō's uncle whose name is Genjirō." "While Genjirō is the heir to the Yoshioka clan... he will be present and attended by many assistants." "just to make things clear." "I agree." "tomorrow morning during the final third of the Hour of the Tiger." "Sasaki Kojirō." "Why are you watching out for me?" "You need to be sure to be at Sagarimatsu." "Right?" "The principal occupation of the Hon'ami clan is to appraise and to sharpen swords." "Although that skill in sharpening swords has come down to us from the first world of the Ashikaga's..." "Toyotomi generations this may be the first time it could be said Kōetsu himself has sharpened a sword." "I'm much obliged." "what is it you like about swords?" "Huh?" "for what reason do you walk along the path of the sword?" "That's to make my name by the sword." "Is that right." "I hope you can find a true meaning for it someday." "True meaning?" "just what you'd expect from an excellent sword that's been handed down from the Muromachi era." "80)}Muromachi Era - 1392-1573" "These can really cut." "And in addition... they're strong." "Musashi..." "Otsū-san!" "You should still be sleeping..." "Where is Musashi-sama?" "Musashi-sama hasn't gone...?" "Otsū-san..." "Are... you an acquaintance of Musashi-dono's?" "he has gone?" "a little while ago." "Musashi-sama is..." "He's the one I've been searching so long for." "Oh!" "My!" "Where is Musashi-sama?" "Where did he go to just now?" "Just now he went on towards the remains of the Ichijōji Temple over yonder." "Ichijōji Temple...?" "Will he be returning here?" "Musashi-dono went there for a duel." "Between him and the Yoshioka dōjō." "Otsū-san!" "okay?" "The road is divided into three parts." "Let's think about which one Musashi will come out of." "and Genzaemon-dono." "590)}Mibu Genjirō 596)}Mibu Genzaemon approximately ten of our senior people will stay with them." "The rest of you divide yourselves up among the three roads and hide somewhere along the way." "Got that?" "Yes sir!" "the Yoshiokas have 76 men with them." "76?" "but that's an incredible number of them." "It's every bit like a war battle." "What will you do?" "Will you run away?" "No way." "I want to leave my name in history as the man who defeated the world's best; the Yoshioka family." "And..." "I am going to become this world's unparalleled and peerless swordsman." "Sounds interesting." "Musashi-dono. ...will you have a match with me?" "Why?" "I haven't been defeated." "it would turn out to be a good match." "you're saying you want to lose?" "No." "But by defeating Miyamoto Musashi I would be the peerless one." "Sounds interesting." "I'll accept that challenge." "Musashi-sama... what on earth are you doing here?" "I heard you'd been hurt..." "Not in the least." "When I thought of Musashi-sama heading into a duel from here I completely forgot anything about my own body." "Otsū..." "Musashi-sama... aren't you?" "If Musashi-sama is willing to die then I have no intention of living either." "I can forget this weak body of mine." "Don't say such fool things!" "listen to me." "I can say this without shaming my reputation." "Otsū." "Otsū." "I have neither home nor family;" "I'm just a penniless rōnin." "It's not possible for me to provide for you." "if I can gain fame with the sword the road to being a government official might open up for me." "At that time..." "Otsū." "But if you died such a day would never come!" "I don't need you to have a successful career!" "I only want to be together with Musashi-sama!" "Please don't go!" "Please!" "Let's you and I run away together!" "I can't do that!" "I'd be the world's laughingstock." "Wherever I'd run away to the Yoshioka's would forever be chasing me down to murder me." "This is an all-or-nothing battle." "By winning I gain the path towards becoming a government official..." "I lose everything." "But Otsū..." "I will win." "I'll definitely win." "Not only for my own sake but for your sake as well." "I'd hate it..." "I'd hate it if Musashi-sama lost..." "Please!" "Don't go!" "Please don't go!" "If I do win this fight I will definitely come and get you." "let me go now." "I must go already." "Musashi-sama..." "Musashi-sama!" "Otsū!" "Musashi-sama...!" "final third of the Hour of the Tiger." "Sagarimatsu..." "Sagarimatsu 142)}...preparations had already been made in order to attack Miyamoto Musashi." "I will not die..." "Will I get a look at his skills?" "I'm going to win and become peerless!" "That's one." "That's two." "Oi!" "five and six." "It's Musashi!" "nine... withdraw!" "You..." "Father!" "Will you do it?" "This way!" "Genjirō-dono!" "Genjirō-dono!" "The Yoshiokas are no more..." "We've lost..." "Prepare yourself..." "The flame of the Yoshiokas will definitely not be extinguished!" "Musashi!" "What's the matter?" "you're finished." "Doing things on sly until now..." "is that what tied your lives together?" "This is also the art of war." "For the sake of winning." "Come." "Why won't this guy fall?" "Why does he fight?" "That's 76..." "I won..." "Otsū-san..." "Myōshūni-sama." "How is Musashi-sama?" "The Yoshiokas are gone." "262)}Sake Meals" "I think that's leaves a good feeling." "drink up." "Welcome!" "sake." "Give me sake." "I want some sake." "Yes." "hearing about the Yoshiokas I can see they were too fragile." "It wasn't that the Yoshiokas were weak." "It's that man Musashi who is tremendously strong." "604)}Hon'iden Matahachi 688)}What's that about Musashi?" "become successful men." "say..." "I wonder who'd win?" "Ah..." "I think it'd be Sasaki Kojirō." "Musashi's sword is crude while Kojirō's sword is refined..." "Kojirō'd come out on top." "huh?" "Brother." "Brother!" "What is it?" "Got a minute?" "688)}I'm Narai Taizō and I run a pawnshop." "588)}Narai Taizō" "I've got a great way for you to make money over in Edo..." "Want in?" "Geh!" "Not interested." "000 ryō for you." "90)}Ryō - old Japanese coin 000 ryō?" "Ah!" "I'm alive..." "I really did win..." "Where is this?" "Priest!" "Sasaki Kojirō brought me?" "588)}Mudōjōi Temple" "That's right." "he left for Edo right away." "In his message he said he would fullfil his promise upon the occasion of you two re-encountering one another." "how did you come by such injuries?" "Excuse me." "Hmm." "What's that... seems you have a guest." "Is your name Miyamoto Musashi?" "582)}Enryakuji Temple Priest" "That's right." "This is a pronouncement from the main building of the Enryakuji Temple." "Mt." "Hiei is holy ground and must not permit itself to become a haven for those involved with outlawry." "You shall immediately withdraw from this temple." "If you are in violation of this law then according to the strict rules of this temple you will be punished resolutely." "All right." "I'll leave." "what do you mean by "outlawry"?" "I'll tell you." "You cut down Yoshioka Seijūrō and Denshichirō... you also cut down Mibu Genjirō." "your duel with the Yoshiokas should have been finished." "why did you go on and murder all seventy of their remaining students?" "Such useless killings!" "that was a cold-blooded act!" "I'd be the one who was dead." "now couldn't you?" "and that was because in your heart you enjoyed murdering them!" "You're wrong!" "what was it?" "Was it for some great achievement?" "Did you want to become famous as the man who managed to wipe out the entire Yoshioka clan?" "You won't deny it?" "How shameful!" "Do you still feel like saying things about gaining fame like some heretical devil?" "you consider yourself a human being?" "!" "In order for a rōnin such as me to gain fame I had no choice but to do that!" "I pity you." "The times have changed." "A sword that does not kill people..." "That is the sword of Yagyū Sekishūsai." "You are a pathetic man who has been left behind by the times!" "The light has already turned poor for today." "It will be fine for you to leave at first light tomorrow." "young priest." "Yes?" "I have a favor to ask." "I will... have my revenge!" "Ow..." "Ow..." "Obaba?" "566.5)}Osugi" "Miyamoto Musashi left the Mudōjōi Temple." "do you need to rest a little?" "No..." "In response to the mercy you've given me... hurts..." "Let's rest." "Here." "ow..." "How are you?" "Huh?" "let's go see Matahachi." "What are you saying?" "Matahachi died at Sekigahara!" "He ain't dead!" "Matahachi is living happily." "Matahachi wasn't at Mt." "Fuwa." "you're nothing but a sham of a good person." "Such useless things..." "I don't want to hear them!" "wait here a little while." "Is she taking a pee?" "Obaba!" "A note from Musashi-sama." "From Musashi-sama?" "Yes." "Where is Musashi-sama right now?" "Though he was at Mt." "Hiei's Mudōjōi Temple..." "He's set off on a journey." "Eh?" "60)}I'll be waiting at the inn in Seta 158)}Miyamoto Musashi" "226)\frx358\fry8}Sake Meals" "Thank you very much!" "Excuse me." "Do you serve food here?" "Yes." "Come in." "Matahachi?" "Takezō!" "How many years has it been?" "Since Sekigahara!" "We haven't met since then." "that's right." "I was with Obaba until just now." "Eh?" "You were with Ma?" "Yeah." "She was heading towards Kyoto." "You should go and surprise her." "She's totally convinced you died at Sekigahara." "let's have a drink for now." "Give us a bottle." "Those injuries;" "they must be from Sagarimatsu?" "You know about that?" "The whole world's in an uproar over it!" "178)}Sake Meals" "I see... 474)}Rest Stop" "Have you passed all this time just playing around?" "I'm totally useless... my first major step went wrong." "What about you two?" "We broke up." "I see..." "That's right." "Did you meet Otsū in Miyamoto Village?" "I met her." "I wonder what Otsū is doing right now?" "Did Otsū forgive me for abandoning her like that?" "Right now Otsū is being looked after at Hon'nami Kōetsu-dono's mansion in Kyoto." "huh?" "I've made a promise to meet Otsū in Seta." "You made a promise to meet her?" "Are you... seeing each other?" "will you come with me?" "Matahachi." "No..." "My plans are to go on to Edo." "Edo?" "why don't you come along with me?" "I have this great money-making idea." "I intend to follow the way of the sword just as I have been." "I see." "Then I'll take all the profit for myself." "What'll you do about Obaba?" "Ma..." "I should chase after her right away." "Musashi." "Let's meet again." "Yeah." "Otsū... you betrayed me." "Otsū!" "Who is it?" "It's me." "Hon'iden Matahachi." "you've become beautiful." "What are you thinking about right now?" "Nothing... at all." "Haven't you been thinking about me?" "there hasn't been a single day when I didn't remember you." "What are you talking about?" "The one who chose another woman and abandoned me was you!" "Talking about things from so long ago is painful." "I was totally in the wrong." "I can't give you up." "Those days will never return..." "We can no longer call back what our old feelings once were." "Otsū." "Otsū!" "No..." "It cannot be done!" "Otsū!" "Are you thinking about Musashi?" "I love him dearly." "I've made up my mind that I will be married to him for all of my life..." "Otsū!" "All right." "It was under Musashi's orders that you met with him." "that's how it was." "No." "I made a decision about my own life and it was not upon Musashi-sama's orders." "a man can be obstinate." "If that's your decision..." "What are you doing?" "too!" "I can't let you and Musashi get married in my lifetime!" "I won't permit it!" "WHO would permit it?" "!" "Ah!" "If you consider your life to be precious then swear here that you won't think about Musashi!" "swear!" "586.5)}Seta" "228)}Inn" "What's this?" "What's happened..." "Otsū?" "May I inquire..." "Would you happen to be Miyamoto-dono?" "That's right..." "Oh...!" "Lord of Aoba Castle over in Ōshū.." "588.5)}Ishimoda Geki 690)}...and my name is Ishimoda Geki." "Oh..." "I had a feeling from the start that my journey this time around would be auspicious somewhere along the way." "Ah... now." "let's get acquainted." "Geki-dono." "Hmm?" "What on earth is this about?" "Why would you do all this for a person such as myself?" "I see..." "You are quite right to be suspicious." "there's no particular meaning behind it..." "But if you forced the question onto me... in a word..." "I'm in love with you." "I'm a man who's fallen for a man." "Having learned by hearsay of your work at Ichijōji Temple in Sagarimatsu..." "I have watched and longed for you ever since." "would you like to come under our employ?" "I would." "Of course I would." "well then..." "Musashi-dono?" "Would you come with me to Sendai?" "it's as good as a done deal." "To tell the truth..." "Its been my wish for a long time to someday become a government official." "If my wish were to come true like this..." "I have been working hard at my pursuit of knowledge in the ways of the sword." "Truly..." "I am truly indebted to you." "no..." "To have you this pleased at accepting it.." "Musashi-dono." "I am extremely pleased as well." "Now..." "Ah..." "Musashi-dono..." "Yes?" "I have an awkward question to ask." "you were surely with the Western Army?" "Is there something about it?" "If you were..." "Yes." "I was formerly a common foot soldier under Ukita Hideie-sama." "What's that?" "!" "How could..." "Miyamoto Musashi!" "This conversation did not take place." "What do you mean?" "Shogun Ieyasu has written a list of restrictions to all daimyo everywhere." "Within those there is a line in which none of them is to employ rebels." "Rebels?" "Rebels!" "Those who took part along with the Western Army at Sekigahara!" "That means..." "Miyamoto Musashi!" "It means there is no Lord anywhere who would be able to employ you." "Not for as long as the world of the Tokugawa continues!" "You... are a mere murderer!" "A murderer... you cut down Yoshioka Seijūrō and Denshichirō... you also cut down Mibu Genjirō." "your duel with the Yoshiokas should have been finished." "why did you have to go on and murder all seventy of their remaining students?" "Was it for some great achievement?" "You are a pathetic man." "now couldn't you?" "How shameful!" "Do you still feel like saying things about gaining fame like some heretical devil?" "Ahh!" "But you didn't run away and that was because in your heart you enjoyed murdering them!" "wait for me." "I will definitely come back a success from Sekigahara." "I promise!" "Otsū... where have you gone off to!" "Damn it!" "Damn it!" "Matahachi!" "Did a fish get away from you?" "Taizō-sama." "What are you doing in a place like this?" "right?" "Please excuse me." "Yes?" "Where is the man named Miyamoto Musashi?" "he set off on his journey this morning." "This morning?" "Yes." "Do you happen to know where he was going?" "Dunno..." "You will become a well-digging laborer and enter Edo Castle through the western citadel at Marugoshij Castle." "with a pistol." "for the pistol you'll use I will bury that with my own hands beneath the camellia tree inside the castle." "you'll be okay." "because the workers are sent home once it grows dark you'll have to come up with some scheme to get it yourself." "Got that?" "Taizō-sama." "I'd like to build up my war chest a little." "Thanks." "that city became the center of Japan... 597.167)}Edo ...and the entire city was full of life under what was called a "rush of construction." "I wonder why they're building so many houses?" "What are you doing?" "!" "That hit the bullseye!" "What are you laughing at!" "Apologize!" "Apologize!" "This is all because of Akuzō." "Matahachi..." "Why did you die and leave your Mother like this... isn't it?" "Priest Takuan!" "Umm!" "Obaba." "Are you still trying to track down Musashi?" "Of course I am!" "so I thought I'd try tracking him down in Edo." "Which inn are you staying at right now?" "I haven't picked one out yet." "would you come to my place?" "The room rate would be free." "I'm under your care." "Sure." "Priest Takuan..." "I wonder how he was able to get an inn like this?" "was living under a code of clearing and cultivating land." "What are you doing?" "Do you intend to make a field out of this?" "named Iori?" "And the other one's just a beggar who's settled here." "588.5)}Iori what should I do with this?" "Put it over there." "Hosokawa Tadatoshi of the Hosokawa family... 586.5)}Hosokawa Tadatoshi" "126)}...was living in the daimyo's residence his family maintained in Edo." "598.5)}Iwama Kakubei" "There's something strange about you." "This'll be the first time you'll serve as a samurai?" "He has no knowledge about entering the services of a daimyo." "I've heard from Kakubei about your wish to join our clan." "Why did you come to wish to join our clan?" "As my place of death I had the sensation this clan would be a good one to die for..." "Hmm..." "What's you style of martial arts?" "Ganryū." "I've kept you waiting." "Did I overdo it a little?" "you were superb." "The Lord was deeply impressed as well." "he'll employ you as a fencing instructor." "about your search for Miyamoto Musashi..." "Have you found out anything?" "I haven't gotten any news about him since Sagarimatsu." "After what happened there..." "The rumors going around now are that he's thrown away his swords." "Why are you so concerned about Musashi?" "This may sound arrogant..." "I don't enjoy it." "The sword I loved so much ever since I was a child;" "I no longer enjoy it now." "Knowing I'll win against someone of a lower level and will murder them brings me pain." "if Musashi and I were to fight I feel I would regain the pure joy I had in my childhood." "Oi!" "Don't go making this nothin' but a boring puddle of yer own crap!" "ya kin eat all the buds ya want... while yer bellies play toots with yer farts!" "A great many people are saying such things." "Out of the way." "Sensei." "aren't you?" "So why don't you carry a sword?" "will you go off on another journey sometime just like what you were on when you came here that time?" "I was happy." "Thank you for making my Father's grave." "586.5)}Koyanagisei Castle" "Here you go." "I'm obliged." "Kimura-sama will be coming shortly." "Ah." "Traveler." "Yes?" "If I may ask you an abrupt question would you happen to know of a man called Miyamoto Musashi?" "right?" "Would you happen to know where he is right now?" "no..." "I've heard nothing but rumors about him." "Is that right..." "Thank you for waiting." "Ah..." "Sensei!" "You have a guest." "I've been looking for you for a long time." "Do you remember our promise from that time?" "I would be the peerless one." "I'll accept that challenge." "I remember." "I want you for my opponent as soon as possible." "I threw away my swords." "Because of..." "Sagarimatsu?" "That's right." "And so you came to be carving images of the Buddha?" "Is it to comfort the souls of those who died?" "I don't know." "Sensei!" "What is it?" "Please come right away." "Where to?" "The village." "People from the mountains are headed there." "The guys who struck at us three years ago..." "Mountain people...?" "Bandits?" "That bell is to inform about them?" "Hurry and go." "Please help the villagers!" "Sensei!" "Sensei!" "I'll go." "Sensei!" "Guide me there." "Sensei!" "Take the women alive!" "You come with me!" "Incredible..." "Oi!" "Kill him!" "You der!" "We come fer the bastard dat's been gettin' in our way." "Oh!" "It's that guy..." "Throw away yer sword!" "Or I'll kill this fellow!" "Kodake!" "Ma!" "Hurry and throw it away!" "I'll really kill dis fellow!" "One..." "Two..." "Three!" "bastard." "Kodake!" "I'll gives 'em dat long sword!" "Do you feel lost using someone else's sword?" "What?" "Miyamoto Musashi has come back." "Sensei!" "I will be returning to the Buzen Kokura fief from here." "I'll be waiting for you." "Sensei!" "Um..." "We made you some rice balls." "Please eat them!" "Come..." "Thank you." "Thank you very much!" "I'll take them." "Let's go!" "Heave-ho!" "Heave-ho!" "Heave-ho!" "Heave-ho!" "for what reason do you walk along the path of the sword?" "I hope you can find a true meaning for it someday." "Heave-ho!" "two..." "Iori." "Yes." "Heave-ho!" "two..." "Heave-ho!" "two..." "Heave-ho!" "two..." "Heave ho!" "It moved!" "It moved!" "That's great everyone!" "Heave-ho!" "two..." "Heave-ho!" "Iori." "Yes?" "I think I'm going to leave here." "Yes." "Sensei." "Sensei is one who should be at a far more different place than here." "580.5)}Edo Castle" "jerk?" "Eh?" "What is it?" "ya bastard!" "catch him!" "What are ya doin'?" "!" "Ah..." "Oi!" "wait!" "You bastard!" "Whaa!" "Spend some time cooling off in here!" "End of work!" "End of work!" "End your work!" "Finish up!" "Have you reflected on your actions a little?" "Whaa!" "Got it!" "A rock!" "not here..." "It's not here!" "Is this it?" "Takuan!" "How?" "Come with me." "Not coming?" "I said to come..." "This..." "This hole is just..." "Give that up." "It's just a waste of time." "All the good and evil deeds alike that humans draw while above ground will... never disappear throughout their lives." "What you are doing now to the soil to try and make it disappear right away..." "That's just the sort of thinking that led you into such a rough life... you big sinner." "come!" "I will behead you and kick you into the pool of blood!" "Ow!" "Ow!" "That hurts!" "You'll tear off my ear!" "You'll tear off my ear!" "ow!" "586.5)}Nara" "It's been a long time." "Oh..." "I'm much obliged." "590)}Chief Priest Nikkan" "nectar." "Delicious." "Musashi... haven't you?" "Yes." "became troubled in his later years by the contradiction between the Buddist doctrine of making use of life and the martial arts doctrine of killing life and so he bid his disciples to discard their spears and forbade them from practicing in the martial arts." "Yeah." "Then I earnestly begged him to allow me continue teaching the spear at Hōzōin." "How were you able to overcome that contradiction?" "Overcome it?" "Oh..." "I didn't overcome it." "wasn't able to overcome it... now would I?" "Fool." "The contradiction still remains a contradiction... right here." "people want to make everything into either black or white." "Good or evil... etc..." "By making everything either entirely black or white that makes them feel better." "there is no such thing in what we call "life." "Between white and black there is gray..." "It's what lies there that's important." "that is true strength." "Musashi." "The answer won't be found by asking people for it." "The answer is within yourself." "It is truly difficult." "590.5)}Edo Castle" "Excuse us!" "Takuan-sama!" "I was tricked by Narai Taizō!" "I sensed there would be an assassination attempt on the Shōgun ordered by Lord Ikeda Terumasa while that Lord was sojourning at Edo Castle but you were certainly taking part in it..." "Takuan-sama!" "Please spare me!" "It's already too late for that." "But I hadn't yet turned that pistol on the Shogun." "spare me!" "I'll be reborn." "I'll be reborn..." "I'm sure!" "Ow!" "Matahachi?" "Matahachi!" "Ma!" "You are still alive..." "You are still alive!" "Ma!" "I'll be reborn this time around..." "This time around..." "I'll be a dutiful son to you!" "Matahachi!" "Matahachi!" "Matahachi!" "Takuan-sama!" "Save him!" "Spare him!" "Ma..." "Ma..." "Sorry..." "I'm sorry..." "Matahachi?" "Do it." "Yeah." "Ahh!" "Matahachi..." "Matahachi..." "Matahachi!" "Matahachi!" "Matahachiii!" "Matahachi..." "Ma..." "Matahachi." "You are reborn." "Don't ever forget the words you spoke earlier." "Yes!" "260)}Inn" "Takezō?" "Take care." "What is it?" "What is it?" "Huh?" "there... 588.5)}Miyamoto Village" "Takezō!" "Matahachi?" "Ma!" "Ma!" "It's Musashi!" "Musashi's come back!" "Takezō..." "Obaba..." "Takezō..." "Please forgive my many outrages against you up til now!" "Just as you said Matahachi was alive!" "Obaba." "I forgave you from the start." "Takezō... huh?" "too." "I see." "Ah..." "I heard Priest Takuan was around... he's gone up to the mountains right now." "aren't I?" "Ow!" "What was that for?" "!" "You haven't changed." "Priest Takuan." "Musashi." "It's been a long time." "come over here and have a seat." "I was just enjoying the sunset from here." "It's a nice sunset." "A sunset expresses the death of a person." "I love sunsets." "How about it?" "Have you become a little more like a human being?" "I'm weaker than I was before." "That's good." "That's good." "I'll be going to Buzen from here." "Oh..." "Why there?" "I've decided to fight Sasaki Kojirō and become peerless." "well... huh?" "No." "As long as the world of the Tokugawa goes on I'll be a mere rōnin my entire life." "My luck ran out for that when I joined the Western Army at Sekigahara." "for what do you fight?" "Is it to make a name for yourself even without a successful career?" "Or is it to leave your name to posterity as the man who defeated Sasaki Kojirō?" "Previously I fought for a successful career and for my honor." "I was desperate to raise my reputation in the world." "It was with such a selfish desire that I annihilated the Yoshioka School." "I snatched away the lives of more than seventy good people by murdering them." "you will definitely go to Hell." "Yeah." "You don't want a name for yourself." "You don't want a reputation in the world." "either." "why do you still go on fighting?" "I want to see what's further ahead." "To what?" "To what... my limits are." "I want to see that." "What lies ahead when Kojirō and I fight." "too." "It may be death." "It may be." "I won't mind." "I'll go on seeing." "What about Otsū?" "Otsū and I separated in Kyoto and I haven't met her since." "I wonder what will happen...?" "I love Otsū." "I'm sure this feeling will never change." "Even if Otsū's feelings were to change and she got married for life to some other man my feelings wouldn't change." "I'm sure this feeling wouldn't change even upon my death." "My mind and body will live the way of the sword." "But my soul will be together with Otsū." "We'll meet again." "We'll meet again." "Otsū." "Why didn't you come out?" "If I had come out now I would have been just a stupid woman detaining Musashi-sama again so I couldn't come out." "Musashi noticed." "Otsū." "Yes..." "And it was with that in mind that he spoke those words." "With just that I am happy." "Kokura 90)}Miyamoto Musashi then went to Funashima..." "Ganryūjima." "76)}Ganryūjima - i.e. "Ganryū's Island" for Kojirō isn't it?" "isn't it!" "Unusually good weather for this season." "what are you planning on doing with that old oar?" "Huh?" "Ah... they're not half bad." "86)}Halfbeaks" " A fish with elongated pointed lower jaw" "My daughter loves 'em." "Your daughter?" "I three daughters and a young boy;" "we're a five member family." "huh?" "Well... that's true." "No time for me to be loitering about." "And I've got a grandfather and grandmother still around." "the only merit we all have is that we're healthy!" "Huh?" "Why are you going to Funashima?" "I go for a decision." "Over who is the peerless one." "Why does Musashi continue to fight?" "Each and every person continues their fight in different forms." "it's your heart fighting against you being lazy every day." "But..." "I don't bet my life." "You did... bet your life." "I'm sorry." "a fight between two geniuses like Musashi and Kojirō has a different meaning than any normal fight." "For those people who follow the way of the sword all the way..." "No..." "For all of human existence itself as well... won't it?" "Sorry." "Take care of this for me." "And why is that?" "Musashi told me he wanted to see what his limits were." "too." "let's say that this fan contains all of human potential." "let's say this is their store for the future." "When someone exceeds their own limits then the store of that potential grows larger." "When Musashi and Kojirō fight they expand those limits... many times over." "And with that the potential for humanity as a whole becomes just that much greater." "For the way of the sword..." "For all human beings..." "This fight between those two... isn't it?" "590.5)}Funashima (Ganryūjima)" "Musashi." "Yeah." "I'm late." "Are you ready?" "I'm set." "Let's go." "Now." "Musashi?" "I don't know yet."