is a Japanese

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series written by

Kazuo Koike was a prolific Japanese manga writer ( gensakusha), novelist, screenwriter, lyricist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his violent, artful ''seinen'' manga, notably ''Lone Wolf and Cub'' (with Goseki Kojima, 1970–6), '' Lady Snowblood'' ...

and illustrated by

Noboru Kawasaki is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for illustrating the series '' Star of the Giants''. He won the 14th Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most ...

. It was serialized in

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's manga magazine ''

Weekly Shōnen Sunday is a weekly manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan since March 1959. Contrary to its title, ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' issues are released on Wednesdays. ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' has sold over 1.8billion copies since 1986, making it ...

'' from August 1974 to May 1977, with its chapters collected in thirteen volumes.

Publication

Written by

and illustrated by

, ''Musashi'' was serialized in

's manga magazine ''

'' in two periods, the first period was published from August 25, 1974, to August 15, 1976. The second period was published from September 12, 1976, to May 15, 1977, with Shogakukan collected its chapters in thirteen volumes as of September 1977. Several publishers published the series in long term, first published the series in ten volumes from April 1986 to February 1988. Homesha republished the ten volumes from February to June 2001.

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published the series in seven volumes from February to June 2003.

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