Musashi: Roman Eiji, Yoshikawa und Peterich Werner

1984

 German Version

VERY GOOD CONDITION.

DJ MINOR WEAR ALONG EDGES AND CORNERS.

TINY TEAR.

NO MARKINGS NO WRITING.

BOOK VERY GOOD.

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Used Google translate on copyright page, not sure how accurate:

"Licensed edition with the permission of Droemerschen Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich for the German Book Association C. A. Koch's Verlag Nachf., Berlin Darmstadt Vienna

the Bertelsmann Club GmbH, Gütersloh

This license also applies to: EBG Verlags GmbH, Kornwestheim, the Buchgemeinschaft Donauland Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna and Buch- und Schall Plattenfreunde GmbH, Zug/Switzerland Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich 1984 Dust jacket design: Wolfgang Lauter Overall production: May + Co , Darmstadt Printed in Germany Book No. 053793"

Additional text from flap:

Eshikawa

Musashi

The Battle of Sekigahara, the decisive encounter with which James Clavell's great Japanese novel Shogun ends, marks the beginning of Yoshikawa's enormous novel "Musashi". On the battlefield littered with corpses, two young fighters crawl to safety; her dream of a glorious one

Becoming a samurai has its first problem

experience exercise. Nevertheless, one will follow the renounced path of the sword, at the end of which there will be not only the perfect fighter, but also the perfect personality, while the other will end up on the path of worldly pleasures and

can no longer escape mediocrity. The life path of Musashi and Matahachi, this unlikely couple, has many adventurous stages; Women and friends, wise advisors, but above all dangerous opponents and bitter enemies characterize her

development and become their fate. Musashi, who actually lived in the 17th century and was the greatest samurai of his time, embodies the balanced combination of fighting skills, self-discipline and aesthetic sensitivity like no other. He is Parzival, El Cid, Don Quixote, Robin Hood and that

Cane of kung fu films in one. His strategic wisdom is now secret reading among astute financiers and managers. The seven books of the novel, the

Writings like Musashi's path from earth to fire to the light of perfection are captivating not only through the authentic, colorful description of life in ancient Japan, the landscape and the people, but also through the poetry of the images and the Language that is reminiscent of an artistic ink painting. A reading tour to the sources of the Far East

wisdom of life.

Eiji Yoshikawa (1892-1962) is one of the most popular and well-known Japanese novelists of the 20th century. He began his writing career at the age of 22. Musashi was first published in 1935 and has been reprinted no less than fifteen times since then. The novel served as a basis for a film seven times. In the decades since its publication, 120 million copies of the book have been sold. Thanks to Yoshikawa's work, Musashi and the other historically documented characters in the novel have become proverbial figures in Japan.