The people
Characters
Musashi and the men he fought. Each page tells what the record says, marks how sure it is, and lists the sources.
How sure is the record?
Every chapter on a character page carries one of these five grades.
- Evidence grade: Confirmed
On the record
Strong evidence from the time: the person’s own writing, inscriptions, letters, official records, surviving objects.
- Evidence grade: Probable
Most likely
A reasonable conclusion from several reliable sources that agree, or strong evidence plus sound reasoning.
- Evidence grade: Traditional
Later accounts
Found in later chronicles, family records, biographies or local tradition. Useful, but far from the event.
- Evidence grade: Legend
Told, not proven
Culturally important, but weakly evidenced or clearly embellished.
- Evidence grade: Dramatised
Our reconstruction
Our own reconstruction for the film — movement, dialogue, weather, faces — where no source speaks. Never presented as fact.