宫本武藏

宮本武藏

Gōngběn Wǔzàng

proper noun #31,107

Meanings

1 Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese swordsman and author of The Book of Five Rings

About Miyamoto Musashi

1584–1645 · 历史人物 historical figure

Japanese swordsman of the early Edo period, said to have never lost in some sixty duels, who fought with two swords and wrote the strategy book 五轮书 (The Book of Five Rings).

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

他读了好几遍宫本武藏的《五轮书》。

Tā dú le hǎojǐ biàn Gōngběn Wǔzàng de 《 Wǔlúnshū 》.

He read Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings several times over.

HSK 7-9

宫本武藏一生未尝败绩。

Gōngběn Wǔzàng yìshēng wèicháng bàijì.

Miyamoto Musashi never lost a duel in his life.

Tips

culture

Yoshikawa Eiji's novel of the 1930s and Inagaki Hiroshi's film trilogy with Toshiro Mifune made him a worldwide icon. Inoue Takehiko's manga Vagabond, 浪客行 in Chinese, is drawn from that novel.

memory

Japanese kanji names are usually read with their Mandarin readings character-by-character, not phonetically. So 宫本 (Miyamoto) becomes Gōngběn ('palace-root') and 武藏 (Musashi) becomes Wǔzàng ('martial-storehouse'). Don't expect the Japanese sound - read the characters.

Stroke Order

宫 gōng

本 běn

武 wǔ

藏 cáng