Lone Wolf and Cub #43

The brutal war between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan has claimed scores of victims, among them the three sons of Retsudo Yagyu.  But a fourth, illegitimate son survives, and he has been ordered to kill the Lone Wolf.  Renowned as a master swordsman, the last Yagyu son also wields a far deadlier weapon, for he is the head off the dreaded Hojiro assassins, feared throughout Japan as "The Black "Death"