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[Tsurumaki]

Tsurumaki,

Where is this statue located ?

Ganryjūima(巌流島) (Funajima(舟島)) off Kyushu; it seems to be counted as one of the sights of the Mojikō (門司港) district. One of the many depictions of the famous duel in 1612 between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojirō/Ganryū, Miyamoto’s bokken vs. Sasaki’s nodachi.

See:
http://musashi.no-blog.jp/musashiryu/2008/...ost_e7d3_5.html

Here’s a better shot:
http://www.mojiko.info/6toku/musasi.html

This post has been edited by Tsurumaki: Nov 14 2009, 05:54 AM

[Cichorei Kano]

Ganryujima(巌流島) (Funajima(舟島)) off Kyushu; it seems to be counted as one of the sights of the Mojikō (門司港) district. One of the many depictions of the famous duel in 1612 between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojirō/Ganryū, Miyamoto’s bokken vs. Sasaki’s nodachi.

See:
http://musashi.no-blog.jp/musashiryu/2008/...ost_e7d3_5.html

Here’s a better shot:
http://www.mojiko.info/6toku/musasi.html

Thanks. I immediately recognized the duel, but did not know of the statue nor where it was. Thanks. I shall check this out whenever I get to Kyûshû again (and have the time).

[Tsurumaki]

This used to belong to Donn Draeger. It's the second item of his that I've owned. The first was the futon he used in the Ichiyaga House on the Hill. He'd moved out by the time I got here, and I was given it by friends who still lived there.

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[ferdieukiwaza]

I have that cartoon..i think its in the Jokes on Judo Book..

[Tsurumaki]

Glima, from Iceland (I haven't researched the origins.) Iceland is one of the places I wished I'd visited. I knew two Icelandic lasses, sisters, back in my London days. I taught one of them judo at the Judokan. They very much fitted my idea of what Viking women looked like, tall, blonde, striking. When they came to my house, they'd pick my mother up and kiss her, then pick my dad up and kiss him. In Iceland you look people up in the phonebook by their first name. (Talking about phonebooks sounds as dated as Muffin the Mule.)

In the first photo, note how the throw is blocked. Seeing this block always takes me back to Paris, where I watched Geesink, on his way to his first world championship, attack Koga with uchi-mata. Koga used this block once, twice, three times, before sailing over. Geesink was very deliberate and authoritative in his attack.







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