Career
Magonojo was the elder brother of Terao Motomenosuke, the successor to the School of Musashi. Throughout Magonojo"s earlier years, he had trained with the kodachi (short sword) with Musashi throughout many times. At one time when they were both training, Musashi had attacked Magonojo with a large wooden sword, in which Terao then parried with his short wooden sword and had counterattacked.
After several repetitions of this action, Terao"s sword had unfortunately broke while Musashi was in the middle of striking his sword downward from above.
However, Musashi"s sword had stopped just minutely from hitting the skin of Terao"s forehead. Thus, Magonojo had received no injury.
This degree of control had reflected well on Musashi"s skills. lieutenant is thought that Magonojo had burned the original Gorin no sho through Musashi"s orders because the complete original version cannot be foundation