Miyamoto Musashi was born in 1584 in Miyamoto, Ohara Town, Hideda County, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. He died in 1645. Miyamoto Musashi Genshin (formerly known as Shinmon Musashi Genshin in the Art of War Nitenichi) learned Tori-ryu art of war from his father Shinmon Musashi nosuke Itshin when he was a child. From the age of thirteen to the age of twenty-nine, he studied the art of war. During this period, he competed with other schools more than sixty times and never lost once. In addition to swordsmanship, he was also a master of various martial arts such as shuriken and taijutsu (unarmed martial arts). In his twenties, he had already founded a school known as "Enmei-ryu (Enmei-ryu)"; he wrote about swordsmanship in the 10th year of Keicho (1605) The book "Mirror of the Way of Soldiers". During the Kanyong period (1624-1644), he completed the art of war with two swords, which is known as "two swords are first-class". In the 17th year of Kanei (1640) when Musashi was fifty-seven years old, he was invited by Kumamoto Domain Lord Hosokawa Nakamori Tadayoshi to officially teach the art of war there. At the same time, he began to write a book on the theory of war, called "The Art of War Niten-ichi". It was also after Musashi entered Kumamoto. In October of the 20th year of Kanei (1643), Musashi lived in seclusion in Lingyan Cave and began to write the "Five Rings Book". In the second year of Shobao's reign, he passed on "The Book of Five Rings" to Terao Sunnobu Nobunobu, "Preface to the Way of the Five Directions" and "Thirty-five Solid Rules on the Art of War" and passed on to Terao Kumasuke Nobuyuki. After that, he left this world and died at the age of six. Twelve years old (another version is sixty-four years old).

Miyamoto Musashi was a swordsman in Japan at the end of the Warring States Period and the early Tokugawa Shogunate. His influence in Japan was so great that there is a saying that "Sanada (Yukimura)'s gun, Miyamoto's sword" . He claimed: "I have studied swordsmanship since childhood, traveled around the world, met swordsmen of various schools, and competed more than sixty times without losing." Japan is a nation that advocates force and swords. Although the Ming Dynasty had conflicts with both the Japanese government and the public, Despite the friction, a large number of swords were imported from Japan. From a commercial perspective, Japanese swords were equivalent to China's silk and tea before the Opium War, and accounted for a considerable proportion of foreign trade. The Kusanagi sword that is still preserved in Japan is respected as a national treasure by the Japanese. There are many such national treasures in Japan. In Japan, they not only have cultural relic value, but are also worshiped as sacred objects or sacred objects. "Nihon Shoki" It also records the story of the emergence of the Caosha sword. Among the three treasures used as tokens (equivalent to jade seals) by Japanese emperors when they came to the throne, there is also the Tianye Cloud Sword - of course, as Rune Benedict, the author of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" said, the original sword has been It sank to the bottom of the sea during a turmoil. Now the royal family only uses imitations. Until the Meiji period, swords were still considered part of the samurai's body. Nitobe Inzo's book "The Way of the Bushi" states that even stepping over the opponent's sword unintentionally was regarded as a great disrespect and insult to the owner. . In the TV series "Toshiie Yumatsu", Oda Nobunaga inadvertently gave Sasana Masa's sword to others, and Sasana Masa was quite frustrated and panicked.

The end of the Warring States Period was undoubtedly an era when swordsmen emerged in large numbers. The famous swordsmen at that time included Sasaki Kojiro, Yagyu Sogan, Marume Nagae, Itou Ittosai, Togo Shigeki, etc. Even Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the general of the Muromachi shogunate, was a famous "swordsman general". Miyamoto Musashi lived in such an environment.

The better literary works about Miyamoto Musashi include "Japanese Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi", "Miyamoto Musashi" and so on.