Takehiko Inoue
Written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue, "Vagabond" is based on Eiji Yoshikawa's 1935 novel "Musashi". It started serialization in Kodansha's "Morning" on September 17, 1998. Inoue stared the series "Real" in "Weekly Young Jump" in 1999, and serialized it alongside "Vagabond". As of July 2014, the "Vagabond" chapters have been collected into 37 "tankōbon" volumes by Kodansha.