Hello,
Actually, the name of the series is "Musashi no Ken"
(Sword of Musashi). It started out as a manga, and the
first story arc was made into an anime. It follows a
boy named Musashi (written with the kanji for 3, 6,
and 4) from his birth until young adulthood, as he
learns kendo and tries to become the top kendo
practitioner in Japan.
There is one flashback scene (to the Showa era) in
which a swordsman named Yamamoto Chujiro is practicing
tsuki (thrust) on an empty can hung by a string. One
day, an old man tries to do it. The can doesn't even
move, so Yamamoto thinks he missed. But when Yamamoto
takes a second look at the can...he sees that the old
man had pierced a hole in the can without even moving
it. It turns out that the old man was none other than
Saitou Hajime himself. :)
As for whether this has anything to do with the real
historical Saitou, I doubt it, but I was amused to
find yet another reference to him in a manga or anime
I've read/seen.
Tatsuko
--- Tiffany <
makoto@...> wrote:
> There was a post on
> www.3-hajime.com/cgi-local/patio/patio.cgi
> The title of the post is "Anecdote of Late Year?"
>
> This is the babelfish translation...telling of an
> old Saito Hajime
> appearing in an anime...(Usual warning about
> babelfish)
>
> "It meaning that name of Saito one appears in the
> kendo cartoon,
> "sword of 634", it does.
> As a story of former times, the alone boy being
> Kawahara, when you
> practice kendo, the old person coming, you say that
> try doing the
> bamboo sword.
> It was less crowded in the string and hung the can,
> practiced
> piercing, but aiming for that can, the old person
> extended the bamboo
> sword.
> But, the can does not move jerkily.
> When the boy tries seeing, you say that the hole
> opened in the can.
> You say that with the bamboo sword, the can was
> carried out.
> That was Saito one of late year.
>
> With it meaning that the anecdote which is said is
> riding, it does,
> but is this how probably what?
> The �� - the ��, you question, it
> becomes.
> Penetrating the being less crowded can which was
> hung to the string
> with the bamboo sword how, being possible?
> As an anecdote of Saito one, such a story it has
> been effective?"
>
> There was a reply to the post along the lines that
> it is uncertain
> whether or not this story was associated with
> historical S.H. (The
> important thing to me is that he is in yet -another-
> anime LOL).
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