JAPAN: Was Miyamoto Musashi the greatest swordsman ever?

Miyamoto Musashi may have been the greatest swordsman to ever walk Planet Earth. Maybe it's no surprise that he hailed from Japan, home to the highest-quality swords in the world--or that he was produced by one of that country's most turbulent ages.
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[@Dragon43ish]

Yes, Musashi was the greatest swordsman of Japan, ever.

[@lognomelchorambas5364]

He is an american cowboy who dont take a bath

[@dowayigu1277]

logno melchor ambas , he took Onzen

[@shockhouser3171]

No the world

[@natsutsunarei8824]

No he was the greatest swordsman to live actually. All the other countries/continents/states were too pussy to use swords. And even since the beggining of America they had guns

[@SatishKumar-rc7tt]

thanks this helped me in my school project about him

[@darkmana]

Well done man! You have a very dicaprio-like charm, looks like you had a fun time in Japan!

[@damn1]

Lovely video, keep up the good work!

[@RobFraxedas]

I kind of doubt you looked that closely at Musashi, because one of the central lessons in his 5 Rings book, something he bothered to write while dying, is that if you're going to be dealing in death, you'd better dispense with any notion of "fair play" or waste any time/energy with technical flourishes or anything else that would keep you from killing your opponent before you're killed.

[@jessemartin1876]

did he really write that?

[@CrudeConduct666]

@@jessemartin1876 yes. It's an easy to find book. Hell the audio book is free on youtube

[@budahbaba7856]

@@jessemartin1876 no he didn't It is apocryphal literature.

[@SubcarpatiRO2010]

pleaaaase! i am a bigfan and i woke my child for the third time with the big intro and outro. pleaaase, lower the volume with 3 db!

[@TheNomadicProfessor]

I lowered it about a year ago. :)

[@SubcarpatiRO2010]

@@TheNomadicProfessor thank you!

[@budahbaba7856]

@@TheNomadicProfessor no you didn't!

[@tenand11]

why such a loud music at the end?

[@AnnhilateTheNihilist]

The. Greatest. Swordsman. Period.

[@ryanedwards4512]

Hmmm...I guess you never heard of Peter North

[@AnnhilateTheNihilist]

@@ryanedwards4512 funny

[@budahbaba7856]

Actually, he never even existed!

[@robl6189]

Intro volume too loud compared to info volume. The dancing back and forth with a selfie stick is a bit distracting. Video is informative though.

[@symon9440]

not the world but im confident hes the best in japan

[@budahbaba7856]

i'm sure he was, considering he never even existed.

[@justnotokay]

@@budahbaba7856 he did

[@Anonymous-vw2fd]

@@budahbaba7856 it’s not like this was 10.000 years ago it’s very recent less then 400 years ago he has lots of art and ancient Japan had scribes and being who followed warriors and wrote there accomplishments usually unbiased

[@manta0368]

Tsukahara Bokuden (塚原卜伝) and Kamiizumi Nobutsuna (上泉信綱) were much greater swordmen in Japanese history.

[@CrudeConduct666]

In what way?

[@phoeveezy6398]

Yeah in what way? Please explain

[@manta0368]

They were strong in wars, duels, matches. (Tsukahara killed over 300 men in wars and duels.) Their match opponents were famous and strong、and their disciples were also strong.

[@monadamus42]

Great video! Now everybody go read Vagabond! The greatest manga, of Japan!

[@natsutsunarei8824]

OF ALL TIME! AND THATS SAYING SOMETHING CUZ IVE WATCHED BERSERK AND BERSERK IS AMAZING

[@stand4reason]

very good

[@trafalgardlaw4997]

👏👏

[@tupacshakur8873]

I'm pretty sure this is an Anime

[@ashishacharya4001]

there is a manga called "Vagabond" about Musashi :)

[@Godslayer-cn6ko]

He is the best no question

[@pancakes46]

Ah imagine if miyamoto musashi was your servant. Holy grail here I come

[@gerardrbain1972]

I don't think he had the personality to be tethered to a lord for an extended period of time.

[@Tube82ful]

To for the great info, I am reading Book of five rings and wanted to know more..

[@thomaswood7030]

Musashi.never.said.he.was.a.great.swordman.it.was.the.people.who.saw.him.fight.said.that.he.killed.a.lot.of.people.in.a.short.time.there.are.more.who.killed.more.than.he.did

[@justnotokay]

Miyamoto was one of the strongest and best swordsman.

[@waitandhope]

Omg

[@ST-wh7et]

Intro and outro volume way too loud compared to the rest of the volume. Your videos are treasurs.

[@riderinthesky2265]

He was a "killer". He killed the great swordsman, Sasaki, Kojiro with a wooden oar. Not a sword. The Book of 5 Rings was written by his Buddhist monk patron.

[@okasai9184]

Sasaki kojiro isnt real tho. The tale of musashi killing sasaki with the wooden oar is only rumors to make musashi look better. The theory on 5 rings being written by his monk patron is half correct as musashi was too old to write so he had a patron to help him write the book.

[@CrudeConduct666]

@@okasai9184 who told he Kojiro wasn't real?

[@budahbaba7856]

Ya, Musashi was nothing more than a murdering thug, if he even did exist at all.

[@ericweikel6045]

@@okasai9184 hahahaha wasn’t real? Man you need to dive into history more . Musashi maybe didn’t follow the more prolific code of being a samurai he was ronin , in his beginnings he probably was looked at as a bum or a nobody to those who were in schools of bushido. He trained himself diligently alone in the mountains for years when he was young. In my opinion he most likely was extremely quick with his weapon and his body through training . His stories were probably embellished I’m sure . Did he have 60 duels idk about that , it was probably less . Reason being I think your luck would run out sooner or later . But non the less I’m sure he had a lot of duels . If history keeps you alive for hundreds of years there has to be truth there.

[@jacekb4941]

Swordsman lol Tell it to Liechtenauer or Talhoffer XD

[@AnnhilateTheNihilist]

He would have killed those guys with a stick

[@CrudeConduct666]

So they could die in a duel with him?

[@jacekb4941]

japanese sectarians always so funny XD

[@samuelanderson9416]

Ok nerd

[@oolooo]

I doubt it .I mean , could we really compare him with duelists and blademasters of other places and times ? .Sigmund Ringeck , Iohannes Liechtenauer , Joachim Meyer , Madame de La Mapin , Joseph d'Bolougne , Sir William Marshall , Fiore Fiordano dei Liberi and many more .Those are just the ones we know of , those that had the money , inclination , position , fame or desire to write about or be written about themselves and/or their techniques .And even if we knew of every swordsman and swordswoman who ever lived and every school and variation , there would still be one problem : they are dead .D E A D .We can not compare their skills unless we seriously fuck with the timeline .We can only compare their techniques ( Ridiculous ) , what was said about them ( Very unreliable ) and what they said about themselves ( SUPER unreliable ) .

[@CrudeConduct666]

He has 60 documented wins in duels. That outnumbers the others right off the bat.

[@oolooo]

Except he was a cheater who attacked before the duel started and a lot of those were also not even duels but premeditated murders .Miyamoto was a pussy .

[@Pheonixblox7]

I think you are the pussy

[@budahbaba7856]

Yes, why are we glorifying a murdering psychopath like Musashi -if he ever even lived at all?

[@gerardrbain1972]

@@oolooo You mean showing up early to a "duel" (or as reasonable people would call it an ambush) where the opponent's followers and family have prepared a trap? If he was a pussy he wouldn't have even showed up to the ambush if he knew what his opponent was planning before hand.

[@R4ndomWords]

I listened to a much more comprehensive biography of the guy before. There are many clues that a lot of his exploits were either made up or exaggarated after the fact by himself or later authors. In fact even in those accounts he won a large number (if not most) of his duels by straight up cheating/lying and deceiving. The closer you look at the historic Musashi the less of a hero and the more of a cruel trickster he looks.

[@SatishKumar-rc7tt]

how do u know kid

[@zacharycrater2588]

He said not to fight fair when death can occur. Which is smart.

[@CrudeConduct666]

There is no cheating in a life or death duel. Your goal is to kill the opponent and live. If you do this, you did well.

[@budahbaba7856]

*@RandomWords* Exactly so. Musashi is a lot like folk heroes we have in the States. Many of them were real people. Many of them were entirely fictitious. But all of them had resumes that was exaggerated, embellished, and invented just to accommodate good story telling and cultural pride.

[@petercsigo9935]

This theory that he was a world greatest swordsman just doesn't work. You would have to have a time machine and get her up from different time periods the best swordsman all over the world.Yhey have to have a tournament and then you can pretty much know who was the greatest swordsman of all time.

sound like a great movie plot. i would definitely do that if i had a time machine

[@zacharycrater2588]

Sounds like mortal kombat LOL

[@the_number_one]

Only he had a sword made of poor steel folded a thousand times to make it strong. Any Tamil sword made of wootz steel would have cut both with ease.

[@vetiarvind]

irrukalam...but he even defeated warriors carrying swords with wooden sticks to show that the sword doesn't matter as much as the fighter behind it.

[@budahbaba7856]

*@The Nomadic Professor* Bullshit! Musashi was a folk hero -like Davey Crocket & John Henry here in the States. He "may" have actually lived, but in the telling & retelling of his exploits he has become a tall tale that has little resemblance left to reality. If i made a video extolling the exploits of Daniel Boone, Davey Crocket, Mike Fink, Paul Bunyan, or John Henry as if they were literal fact, you would call BS on me & rightly so! And thus i call BS on you! Because there is absolutely no difference!

[@lognomelchorambas5364]

No he is not the greatest samurai ,probably musashi have distorted mind that he delighted and have urge in challenging others to sword dwell, it is writen that samurai embrace peace ,fighting is the only last resort

[@tedrow70]

Well he did kill all the other best samurai fighters. Better strategist and never lost. Not the greatest samurai in principle but definitely the best fighter of them.

[@budahbaba7856]

@@tedrow70 Bullshit! It is doubtful Musashi ever even existed!

[@phoeveezy6398]

Samurai were head clans.. very far from peaceful. Bushido mentions a lot about honor and stuff alike but not peace. Plus there was hardly any peace back then, constant power struggles and wars.