Kate Beaton's version of a famous Musashi incident — see the full cartoon
Mushashi Miyamoto — Japan's legendary yet real swordsman . . . if you don't know anything about him, the rest of this won't make much sense (but then, there's always the Wikipedia page. Oh all right then: maybe this one).
So, anyway . . . Canadian web comic artist Kate Beaton has retold one of Musashi's most famous encounters: see this fabulous Musashi cartoon.
There are several Musashi references in the Fudebakudo book. I deliberately included two conflicting versions of how he founded the niten-ryu because, since nobody ever checks their facts, I thought I might as well make Fudebakudo inconsistent. After all, that's how all good myths perpetuate.