Shishido Baiken

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Shishido Baiken was a Japanese swordsman active in the early years of the Edo period (1603-1868). Baiken was a skilled swordsman, and soon on became a skilled practitioner of the kusarigama (a metal chain attached to a kama). Around the year 1607, Baiken dueled the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi and was killed.


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