KAZUCHIYO

With the changing of the seasons, Kazuchiyo's campaign in the west is brought to a temporary close. He and his lovers, seeking recuperation and renown, begin the march home, but not to Aritaka's stronghold of Gyoe. Lord Aritaka instead bids them come to Suyama Province, to the mountain of the Red Dragon that Kazuchiyo's true family called home. To see his father's murderer take their ancestral seat is almost more indignity than Kazuchiyo can bear, but with the autumn harvest festivities underway