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I just returned from Iwakuni (Yamaguchi prefecture) and was surprised that in the middle of the jokamachi park area near Iwakuni castle (jokamachi basically mean something like "town under the castle", basically its the town that springs up around the castle, but I am drifting here) there was a statue of Sasaki Kojiro. There was some text and such, but the kanji had become fairly hard to read due to years of abuse via the weather and as I had other more important plans at the moment, I didn't take sit down and try to figure out all the details, but it appears he may have originally been from that area and lived there for some time. As for "Ganryu", most samurai had several different names at different points in their lives. I have seen him referred to as Sasaki Kojiro, Ganryu Kojiro, Sasaki Ganryu, etc in various Japanese books. As Guy pointed out, it is also the name of the island where he and Musashi supposedly dueled. It may be possible that the island was named after him for that duel, although I can't recall where I heard that from so you may as well discard that. Best, Rennis Buchner
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