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IJN battleship Musashi 🇯🇵 Musashi (武蔵), named after the former Japanese province, was one of four planned Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), beginning in the late 1930s. ⚓️ The Yamato-class ships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, displacing almost 72,000 long tons (73,000 t) fully loaded and armed with nine 460-millimetre (18.1 in) main guns. Their secondary armament consisted of four 155-millimetre (6.1 in) triple-gun t

Japanese battleship Musashi 🇯🇵 Built at Nagasaki, Japan, Musashi was commissioned in August 1942. The sister ship to Yamato was 862 feet long and had a crew of 2,500 sailors. Initially assigned to the Central Pacific to thwart an American offensive, she later participated against the Allied landings of the Marshall Islands. 🌏 On March 29, 1944, she was torpedoed by USS Tunny (SS-282). Repaired in Japan, her anti-aircraft was increased. In June 1944, Musashi took part in the Battle of the Phil

Budo Bite | A Novel Approach to Musashi #musashi #samurai #podcasting Full episode at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FfNC1mB1N0 #musashi Welcome to the first episode in a new series I’ll be doing on Miyamoto Musashi. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be diving into different aspects of his life, his legacy, and the way he’s been imagined and reimagined over the centuries. To start things off, I want to talk about Yoshikawa Eiji’s epic novel Musashi. It’s one of the most influential works in shaping

Miyamoto Musashi was Japan's greatest ronin or masterless samurai. He defeated 62 opponents in duels and famously wielded two blades in combat. Musashi created his own budokan or school. He designed a fighting system called Niten-Ich' or two heavens in one. The ronin fought with the shogun in some of the period's greatest battles including the Siege of Osaka and the Battle of Sekigahara. Later he became a hermit and wrote The Book of Five Rings. | History Collection