Miyamoto Musashi - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The novella Arrowroot is often published in a dual edition with a so-called Secret History that delves into this character’s sadomasochistic relationship with his foe’s wife. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this title character of a nearly thousand-page-long, 1935 novel by Eiji Yoshikawa that climaxes with a battle in which he wields a weapon carved from a boat’s oar.

ANSWER: Miyamoto Musashi [or Miyamoto Musashi; or Musashi Miyamoto; or Musashi; accept The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi]

[10e] This novelist wrote that “Secret History” of Musashi. Edward Seidensticker translated two of this novelist’s titles that are idioms about “water pepper-eating bugs” and “falling snow,” Some Prefer Nettles and The Makioka Sisters.

ANSWER: Jun’ichiro Tanizaki [or Tanizaki Jun’ichiro]

[10m] Perhaps the best-known fictional treatment of feudal Japanese history in the West is this 1975 James Clavell novel about John Blackthorne.

ANSWER: Shōgun

<AP, World Literature>

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Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	67%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	8.33	50%	17%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	33%	67%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	60%	60%	40%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	7.50	25%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	60%	80%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	3.33	0%	33%	0%

Data


UCF C	Florida B	0	0	10	10
UCF B	Florida State A	0	10	0	10
Florida A	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
Kenyon	Carnegie Mellon B	0	0	10	10
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan D	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Michigan A	0	0	0	0
Ohio State A	Michigan State	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Case Western B	0	10	0	10
Duke	Liberty B	0	0	0	0
South Carolina	Liberty C	0	0	0	0
UNC B	Virginia Tech A	10	0	10	20
Virginia A	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	UNC D	0	10	0	10
William & Mary	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Missouri	Chicago B	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Winona State	Wisconsin A	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Wisconsin B	0	0	10	10
Tufts A	BU	0	0	10	10
Harvard B	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Brown A	Brandeis B	10	10	0	20
MIT A	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	UMass Boston	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame A	Georgetown A	0	10	10	20
Stanford B	Georgetown B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern A	Notre Dame B	0	10	10	20
Purdue	Iowa	10	10	0	20
UW A	Alberta	0	0	0	0
UBC	UW B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech C	0	0	10	10
Alabama A	Vanderbilt A	0	0	0	0
Louisville A	Bruin A	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Bristol	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Manchester	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge D	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Durham	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Oxford C	0	0	0	0
Imperial A	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
LSE	Sheffield	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Penn B	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	NYU B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	George Washington A	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	Haverford A	0	10	10	20
John Jay College	George Washington B	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Maryland B	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Haverford B	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Columbia C	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Notre Dame C	0	0	10	10
Binghamton A	ESF A	0	0	0	0
Cornell D	Cornell C	0	0	0	0
RIT A	RIT B	0	0	10	10