Skip to main content

Secondary sourceDocumentDecember 2005

Presentation by Gosho Motoharu to Brazilian Edition of The Book of Five Rings

Gosho Motoharu · December 2005

A 2005 presentation letter in Portuguese for a Brazilian translation of Musashi's treatise The Book of Five Rings.

A modern presentation for a translation of Musashi's own treatise, showing its continuing international influence.

Ask Musashi Miyamoto about this sourceView the original(opens in new tab)
Two-page spread of a Portuguese-language presentation text titled APRESENTAÇÃO, with pages numbered 10 and 11 at top, featuring a photo of two men seated side by side and a signed note from Gosho Motoharu dated 12 de dezembro de 2005. Pages 12 and 13 below show a handwritten Japanese calligraphy text with red seal stamps, a signature, and a footnote reading Apresentação de Gosho Motoharu.
Gosho Motoharu, presentation to the Brazilian edition of Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings, 2005.

About this source

What it is

This document, dated December 2005, is a presentation written by Shihan Gosho Motoharu of the Gosho Ha Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu school for the Brazilian Portuguese edition of Miyamoto Musashi's treatise, the Book of Five Rings. It includes a photograph of two men and handwritten Japanese calligraphy with red seal stamps alongside the printed Portuguese text.

Why it matters

Musashi wrote the Book of Five Rings as a guide to swordsmanship and strategy. This later presentation, written centuries after his death, shows how his book continued to be translated, studied, and introduced to new readers around the world, including in Brazil through the efforts of figures like Jorge Kishikawa and Gosho Motoharu.

Look closer

  • Why might a modern martial arts teacher be asked to write an introduction for a translation of an old text?
  • What does the spread of this book to Brazil suggest about Musashi's influence beyond Japan?
  • How might a translator's and introducer's choices shape how readers understand the original work?

This document is part of the curated material that grounds the AI version of Musashi Miyamoto on Humy.ai — when students ask about related events, the AI can quote it and cite it.

More Musashi Miyamoto sources

Meet the AI Musashi Miyamoto →
A tall, narrow, weathered stone monument with an inscribed upper panel of large characters and dense vertical text covering its face, set on a stone base among green trees and shrubs in a wooded park.Sculpture

Secondary source

Kokura Hibun

Miyamoto Iori · 1654

Painting of a seated man in a white kimono with dark green-trimmed sleeves and rust-red hakama pleated trousers, holding chopsticks in one hand and a sword hilt in the other. A katana lies across the lower right. Japanese caption in lower left.Painting

Secondary source

Portrait of Miyamoto Musashi

Edo period

Ink painting on paper, framed, of a bearded monk with a large round head and heavy brows, drawn in loose brush strokes with a flowing robe. Japanese calligraphy caption appears below the image.Painting

Primary source

Daruma-Bodhidharma

Miyamoto Musashi

A tall, narrow vertical scroll of pale paper with large bold black brush calligraphy at the top reading in Japanese characters, and smaller columns of black brush characters below, with a small red seal near the bottom right.Document

Primary source

Kanjisenki

Miyamoto Musashi

A stone grave monument in a garden. A tall upright gravestone stands behind a tiered stone base, with a twisted straw shimenawa rope wrapped around it. Stone lanterns, a stone basin with flowers in vases, and other grave markers stand in front, with green trees behind.Sculpture

Secondary source

Grave of Miyamoto Musashi

Ready when you are

Start chatting with Musashi Miyamoto now.

20 messages free · No credit card · Available in 50+ languages.

Trial Humy for freeGet a quote for institutions