Miyamoto Musashi: The Water Volume

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Features: "Today knows not tomorrow's events." Nobunaga also often sang — "Fifty years of life, the world's changes are like dreams and bubbles." Whether intellectuals or non-intellectuals, everyone has this experience. The war has subsided, and the streetlights of Kyoto and Osaka are as bright as they were during the height of the Muromachi Shogunate. Even so, people still think: "When will these lights be extinguished again?" Long-term warfare has imprinted this worldview, making it impossible to erase easily. In the tenth year of the Keichō era, this book introduces Musashi, who rejects the devoted woman Akame and begins his path of (training). His innate wildness and strength only become clear when he meets the elderly monk Nikko, realizing that the so-called killing intent is actually his own shadow. Especially when he desperately yearns for a duel at the secluded residence of Ishikawa Jōzan, he despises his own shallowness even more — "What can one gain from winning without fame or fortune?" Thus, Musashi constantly delves inward while also seeking harsher challenges outwardly.