

I am reading the manga Vagabond. After the death of Yoshioka Denshichirou,
someone named Ueda Ryouhei is appointed as the head of the family. Ryouhei
then makes a decision that the school should fight Musashi near Ichijou-ji
Temple outside Kyoto.

But according to [an answer on History Stack
Exchange](https://history.stackexchange.com/a/8395/739), it was the 12-year-
old son of Seijuurou's, Yoshioka Matashichiro, doing this. Is Ueda Ryuhei a
fictional character that has replaced Yoshioka Matashichiro? If so, why did
the author not show Yoshioka Matashichiro in his comic?


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Why was Ueda Ryouhei appointed the head of the Yoshioka clan and not Seijuurou's son?


_Vagabond_ is a fictionalized interpretation of Musashi's life adapted from
Eiji Yoshikawa's _Musashi_. The novel is a dramatization and not really
historically accurate, even though many people have started to take
Yoshikawa's book as historical due to it's popularity.

Now why was there no mention of Matashichiro, the youngest of the Yoshioka
brothers? It's better (commercially) to not to mention the fact that Musashi
killed a 12 year old boy.


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