Editing Miyamoto Musashi (section)

==Timeline==
{{Unreferenced section|date=February 2025}}
The following timeline of Musashi biography in chronological order (of which is based on the most accurate and most widely accepted information).

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|- style="background:#efefef;"
! Date
! Age
! Occurrence
|-
| 1578
| −6
| Musashi's brother, Shirota, is born.
|-
| 1584
| 0
| Miyamoto Musashi is born.
|-
| 1591
| 6–7
| Musashi is taken and raised by his uncle as a [[Buddhist]].
|-
| 1596
| 11–12
| Musashi duels with Arima Kihei in Hirafuku, [[Hyōgo Prefecture]].
|-
| 1599
| 14–15
| Duels with a man named [[Tadashima Akiyama]] in the northern part of [[Hyōgo Prefecture]].
|-
| 1600
| 16
| Believed to have fought in the [[Battle of Sekigahara]] (21 October) as part of the Western army. However, recent researches has suggested he was on the Eastern army along with his father. Whether he actually participated in the battle is currently in doubt.
|-
| 1604
| 19–20
| Musashi has three matches with the Yoshioka clan in [[Kyoto]].<br>(1) Match with Yoshioka Seijuro in [[Yamashiro Province]], outside the city at Rendai Moor (west of Mt. Funaoka, [[Kita-ku, Kyoto]]).<br>(2) Match with Yoshioka Denshichiro outside the city.<br>(3) Match with Yoshioka Matashichiro outside the city at the pine of [[Ichijō-ji]].
|-
|
|
| Visits [[Kōfuku-ji]], [[Nara, Nara|Nara]] and ends up dueling with Okuzōin Dōei, the Buddhist priest trained in the style of [[Hōzōin-ryū]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kagita|first=Chūbei|title=The sickle-spear of the Hōzōinryū (7) |url=http://www.sojutsu.de/en/home/texte-vom-20-soke/der-sichelspeer-der-hozoinryu-7|access-date=2021-05-05|website= sojutsu.de|language=en}} First published in the Nara town magazine ''Ubusuna'' on 8 July 2009.</ref>
|-
| 1605–1612
| 20–28
| Begins to travel again.
|-
| 1607
| 22–23
| Munisai (Musashi's father) passes his teachings onto Musashi.
|-
|
|
| Duels with the [[kusarigama]] expert [[Shishido (swordsman)|Shishido]] in the western part of [[Mie Prefecture]].
|-
| 1608
| 23–24
| Duels [[Musō Gonnosuke]], master of the five-foot staff in [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]].
|-
| 1610
| 25–26
| Fights Hayashi Osedo and Tsujikaze Tenma in [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]].
|-
| 1611
| 26–27
| Begins practicing [[zazen]] [[meditation]].
|-
| 1612
| 28
| Duel with [[Sasaki Kojirō]] takes place on 13 April, on [[Ganryū-jima]] off the coast of [[Shimonoseki]] in which Kojiro is defeated.
|-
|
|
| Briefly opens a [[fencing]] school.
|-
| 1614–1615
| 30–31
| Believed to have joined the troops of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] in the [[Siege of Osaka|Winter and Summer campaigns]], under the command of [[Mizuno Katsushige]] (8 November 1614&nbsp;– 15 June 1615) at [[Osaka Castle]], but no significant contributions are documented.
|-
| 1615–1621
| 30–37
| Comes into the service of Ogasawara Tadanao in [[Harima Province]] as a construction supervisor.
|-
| 1621
| 36–37
| Duels [[Miyake Gunbei]] in [[Tatsuno, Hyōgo]].
|-
| 1622
| 37–38
| Sets up temporary residence at the [[castle town]] of [[Himeji, Hyōgo]].
|-
| 1623
| 38–39
| Travels to [[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]].
|-
|
|
| Adopts a son named [[Miyamoto Iori|Iori]].
|-
| 1626
| 41–42
| Adopted son [[Miyamoto Mikinosuke|Mikinosuke]] commits [[seppuku]] following in the tradition of [[Junshi]].
|-
| 1627
| 42–43
| Travels again.
|-
| 1628
| 43–44
| Meets with [[Yagyū Hyōgonosuke]] in [[Nagoya]], Owari Province.
|-
| 1630
| 45–46
| Enters the service of Lord [[Hosokawa Tadatoshi]].
|-
| 1633
| 48–49
| Begins to extensively practice the arts.
|-
| 1634
| 49–50
| Settles in [[Kokura]], [[Fukuoka Prefecture]] for a short time with son Iori as a guest of [[Ogasawara Tadazane]].
|-
| 1637–1638
| 53–54
| Serves a major role in the [[Shimabara Rebellion]] (17 December 1637&nbsp;– 15 April 1638) and is the only documented evidence that Musashi served in battle. Was knocked off his horse by a rock thrown by one of the peasants.
|-
| 1641
| 56–57
| Writes ''Hyoho Sanju-go''.
|-
| 1642
| 57–58
| Suffers severe attacks from [[neuralgia]].
|-
| 1643
| 58–59
| Migrates into [[Reigandō]] where he lives as a [[hermit]].
|-
| 1645
| 61
| Finishes [[The Book of Five Rings|Go Rin No Sho/The Book of Five Rings]]. Dies from what is believed to be lung cancer.
|}