growing troubles in his personal life. But in 1935, with the serialization of Musashi, about famed swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, in the Asahi Shimbun, his writing settled firmly into the genre of historical adventure fiction. Upon the outbreak of war with China in 1937 the Asahi Shimbun sent him into the field as a special correspondent. At this time he divorced Yasu Akazawa and married Fumiko Ikedo. During the war he continued writing novels, and became more influenced by Chinese culture. Among the works of this period are Taiko and his re-telling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At the end of the war he stopped writing for a while and settled down to enjoy a quiet retirement in Yoshino (present-day Oumeshi) on the outskirts of Tokyo, but by 1947 he had started writing again. His post-war works include New Tale of the Heike, published in the Asahi Weekly (1950), and A Private Record of the Pacific War (1958). On September 7, 1962, he died from cancer-related complications. English translations Four of his books have been translated into English. They are: Miyamoto Musashi, translated as Musashi Translated by Charles S. Terry (1981) Musashi. New York: HarperCollins. (cloth) (1989) Musashi Book I: The Way of the Samurai. New York: Pocket Books. (paper) (1989) Musashi Book II: The Art of War. New York: Pocket Books (paper) (1989) Musashi Book III: The Way of the Sword. New York: Pocket Books. (paper) (1989) Musashi Book IV: The Bushido Code. New York: Pocket Books. (paper) (1989) Musashi Book V: The Way of Life and Death. New York: Pocket Books. (paper) (1995) Musashi. Tokyo: Kodansha International. (cloth) Taiko ki, translated as Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan Translated by William Scott Wilson (1992) Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha. (cloth) (2000) Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha. (cloth) Shin Heike monogatari, translated as The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War Translated by Fuki Wooyenaka Uramatsu (1956) The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ASIN B0007BR0W8 (cloth) (1981) The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. (paper) (2002) The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love