num_pages: 325
description: They were the two most feared swordsmen of their age: Miyamoto Musashi, mysterious and introspective, and Sasaki Kojiro, a man of arrogance and ambitious. In a nation divided between East and West, each warrior is thrust forward as a hero of bitterly opposing sides. But for Musashi another battle is already raging. While he struggles to understand the Way of Truth, a beautiful woman risks her life to be reunited with him, and his oldest friend is drawn into a horrifying plot to murder the Shogun himself... By the sea, the crowds are gathered, and Kojiro is waiting. Now Musashi must reach a new and breathtaking level of swordsmanship - to win the supreme victory and show his nation the way into a golden age!
language: English
title: The Way of Life and Death
titlecomplete: The Way of Life and Death (Musashi, #5)
genres: Historical, Japan, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 261
publisher: Pocket