Bad Kime: Musashi’s Timing in History

Battle scene of Imagawa Yoshimoto

Musashi grew up in the period between Senkoku Jidai (Warring states period) and Edo Jidai (Tokugawa Shogunate). With the battle of Sekigahara, the role of the gun became firmly entrenched as did the formation of large group tactics to amass firepower. The far reaching consequences would be the eventual replacement of the warrior class with a conscript army trained with rifles.

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