Vagabond - Chapter 301

why the author acts like we didn’t read what he wrote? He went to the dojo with a woden sword to challenge the head of the dojo. he got rejected AND out of their arrogance, they tried to murder him. This is how it started, so its the dojo who started the whole thing.
Then every time someone else died was also due to sneaky assassination attempt – except the older brother’s duel, which was a fair fight and he had the chance to call it off.