Musashi – Book 1: The Way of the Samurai

Miyamoto Musashi – an apprentice swordsman
Shimmen Takezo – former name of Musashi
Munisai – Takezo’s late father, once a samurai under Lord Shimmen of Iga, descendant of the Hirata family
Ogin – Musashi’s older sister
Jotaro – a young follower of Musashi
Aoki Tanzaemon (aka Scraggy Beard) – an official of the Tokugawa government, the representative of Lord Terumasa in Miyamoto, Jotaro’s father
Ikeda Terumasa – Lord of the Castle of Himeiji, where Musashi studied The Art of War

Hon’iden Matahachi – childhood friend of Musashi
Hon’iden Osugi – the mother of Matahachi and bitter enemy of Musashi
Otsu – former lover and fiancé of Matahachi
Gonroku Fuchikawa (aka Uncle Gon) – Matahachi’s uncle, his sister’s husband
Heita – Osugi’s grandson
Akamatsu clan – the clan the Hon’iden and Shimmen families descended from

Takuan Soho – an eccentric monk
Oko – a lascivious woman
Akemi – the daughter of Oko
Arima Kihei – a wondering swordsman killed by Musashi (when he was 12 or 13)
Tsujikaze Temma – bandit slain by Musashi
Tsujikaze Kohei – Temma’s younger brother, the leader of a band of freebooters operating around Yasukawa in Kiso

House of Yagyu – a powerful family known for their style of swordsmanship who serves the House of Tokugawa
Yagyu Sekishusai (former Muneyoshi) – aging master of the Yagyu style of swordsmanship, lord of Koyagyu fief
Yagyu Munenori – Sekishusai’s son and Tokugawa official in Edo
Shoda Kizaemon - samurai in the House of Yagyu
Lord Koizumi – Sekishusai’s teacher and lord of Ise

Yoshioka Kempō – father of Yoshioka Seijuro of Kyoto
Yoshioka Seijuro – Young Master of the Yoshioka School
Yoshioka Denshichiro – Seijuro’s younger brother
Ueda Ryohei – samurai of the Yoshioka School
Gion Toji – samurai of the Yoshioka School and suitor to Oko
Gion Toji and Ueda Ryohei - Yoshioka Seijuro’s senior student
Tsukahara Bokuden – samurai of the era
Kakuzenbo In’ei – former abbot of Hozoin Temple in Nara
Inshun – In’ei’s successor as the abbot of the Hozoin
Agon – senior disciple of the Hozoin Temple, known as “Seven Pillars of the Hozoin,” defeated by Musashi
Nikkan – the abbot of the Ozoin, an old friend of In’ei, Sekishusai’s former student
Okubo Nagayasu – the new governor of Nara, sent by the Tokugawa government
Yamazoe Dampachi, Otomo Banryu and Yasukawa Yasubei – ronins from Nara
Publishing details: Musashi – Book 1: The Way of the Samurai by Eiji Yoshikawa, Corgi Books, Translated from the Japanese by Charles S. Terry, Foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer, 1990, 302 p.

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