"Kaijo Monogatari" (Kaijo Story), written in 1666 (only twenty-one years after Musashi died), describes a scene where Musashi was painting a picture, so since a long time ago, he has been famous as a painter as well.
武蔵没後21年後の寛文6年（1666年）に書かれた『海上物語』に武蔵が絵を描く話が記されるなど画家としても武蔵は有名であった。