( August 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Sasaki later became skilled in wielding a nodachi, and used one he called monohoshizao ("The Laundry-Drying Pole") as his strongest main weapon. The first reliable account of his life states that in 1610, because of the fame of his school and his many successful duels, including once in the late 1500s when he fended off three opponents with a tessen, Sasaki was honored by Lord Hosokawa Tadaoki as the chief weapons master of the Hosokawa fief in the north of Kyūshū. It was after defeating his master's younger brother that he left and founded the Ganryū. Due to his master's use of the kodachi, Sasaki used a nodachi, or a long katana, against him, therefore eventually excelling in its use. If Sasaki had indeed learned Chūjō-ryu from Seigen, he would have been his master's sparring partner. It is said that Sasaki studied the Chūjō-ryu of sword fighting from either Kanemaki Jisai or Toda Seigen. Sasaki Kojirō went by the fighting name of Ganryū ( 巌流, "Large Rock style"), which was also the name of the kenjutsu school he had founded. Later Miyamoto proclaimed that Sasaki Kojirō was the strongest opponent he faced in his life. Although suffering from defeat as well as death at the hands of Musashi, he is a revered and respected warrior in Japanese history and culture. 1575 – April 13, 1612) was a Japanese swordsman who may have lived during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods and is known primarily for the story of his battle with Miyamoto Musashi in 1612, where Sasaki was killed. Sasaki Kojirō ( 佐々木 小次郎, also known as Ganryū Kojirō c.
Sasaki Ganryû (Sasaki Kojiro) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1845)
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