Miyamoto Musashi (or is it Musashi Miyamoto?), a great samurai who invented two-sworded combat, trained the local peasants in fencing, so they could defend against marauding bandits. Toshiro Mifune starred in a trilogy about Musashi’s life.
Nice. Very interesting
So a trained and armed citizenry defending itself against the bad guys
Who woulda thunk it?