IJN Musashi Battleship Calligraphy Poster

IJN Musashi (武藏/むさし) was one of the two Yamato-class battleships, built for the IJN, beginning in the late 1930s, named after the former Japanese province. Commissioned in mid 1942, Musashi was modified to serve as the flagship of the Combined Fleet, and spent the rest of the year working up. The ship was transferred to Truk in early 1943 and sortied several times that year with the fleet in unsuccessful searches for American forces. She was used to transfer forces and equipment between Japan and various occupied islands several times in 1944.Musashi was sunk by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier-based aircraft on 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.