Yoshioka School

The Yoshioka school, Yoshioka-ryū, is a Kyoto sword-fighting style founded in the first half of the Tenmon period (1532-1554) by Yoshioka Kenpo, a former dyeworker who became sword instructor to the Ashikaga shōguns. In Vagabond, after a four-year time skip, Musashi goes to Kyoto to fight the Yoshioka, and in the arc's climax he fights 70 Yoshioka swordsmen alone, ending with a severe leg wound. Historically, Musashi's final encounter with the school destroyed its membership and ended it.