Benkei Musashibo makes the military commander who lived forlate Heian period, followers of Yoshitsune Minamoto; and nobody of the Yoshitsune best four King.
Benkei served Yoshitsune triggered by a fight in Yoshitsune Minamoto and Gojo Ohashi and let loyalty go through until he was killed in a decisive battle of Kinugawa.
A formidable man is superior in not only the prominent martial arts as the fakir but also the ingenuity, and the story of that "Kanjincho" is famous as a subject of Kabuki.
As for the formidable man, some idiomatic phrases that an anecdote and a formidable man about him caused it stay only to the famous armed monk.
I give words with much what is used now in Japan.
"Benkei's Standing Death"(Benkei-no-tachiohjo)
Words to express the formidable man who Benkei remain standing in the place even if a formidable man receives innumerable arrows to a whole body by a battle of Kinugawa, and was going to protect Yoshitsune.
It turned and came to mean an at a loss state.
"Benkei's Weak Point"(Benkei-no-nakidokoro)
It is human vital parts such as shins.
It is a vital part that even the hero like Benkei sheds tears if here is hit and complains of pain of.
One having a pain in is because it absorbs a shock thinly, and muscle and fat cannot disperse.
"The Achilles' tendon" is famous for a vital part of the human body, and even a genius points to the place becoming the weak point both.
It turned, and it was with words to point to the weakest place of a strong person, a few weak points.
"Benkei's paraphernalia"(Benkei-no-nanatsudougu)
The words that turned from seven weapons said to that a formidable man owned it.
It point to the thing that it is full of complete sets with seven.
detective of the paraphernalia , election of the samurai etc...
"Lion at home, outside guardian deity of children"
(uchi-Benkei,soto-Benkei)
A proverb to make it strong like a formidable man in the house, but to mean a thing becoming quiet like a doll outside the house.
The words named "the internet formidable man" are used in a meaning to make fun of an aggressive human being only in internet now.
"Reading by false groupings"(ginata-yomi)
A formidable man is the words of the origin.
It's used as a kind of wordplay.
The words that can interpret two in one sentence.
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