Kakita Naritoki

Ashidaka Naritoki was a bushi of the Crane Clan who was appointed as the Emerald Magistrate of Ryoko Owari Toshi during the rule of Hantei XXXVIII.

City Magistrate
Naritoki replaced Matsu Shigeko as city magistrate, who had not dealt with many incidents supposedly provoked by Ninja. He took as chief retainers the ronin "Ample" and "True Word".

Governor
Shosuro Hyobu was the city governor. Somehow Naritoki realized she was an opponent to keep the law in the city, instead than a support in his duty. Korechika had strong relations with the kajinin, the corrupted city firemen, and Naritoki began to scheme to gain advantage.

Ayako
Naritoki began to get answers and his investigation led him to Ayako, a merchant who he discovered as the mastermind on the phony ninja. Ayako had set up a criminal network behind the veil of the fear to the fable ninja. Naritoki made her an offer, he would lay off the ninja, and even strenghten their reputation. In return Ayako had to be more subtle, and she had to cooperate to arrange arrests between her opponents, the city firemen. The arranged influence on a criminal cartel helped offset Hyobu's connections with the firemen.

Public celebration
In the nineteenth Year in the Reign of Hantei XXXVIII Naritoki attended the celebration for the birthday of the Governor’s son, Shosuro Jocho. There he met Shiba Shonagon, a poet maiden, whose poems Naritoki had read with joy.

Assassinations
The Ryoko Ninja activities became wild after Ayako's death. Her succesor did not follow the agreement Naritoki had and any firemen were killed, included the leader of the Little Gate Firemen. Despite his efforts, the incidents grew, and illegal activities reached the Noble Quarter for the first time, which upset Naritoki.

Quick Justice
Naritoki sprang into action. In 1123 Naritoki, Ample, and True Word tracked down the burgler of Yasuki Nobuko'a house. Instead to carry him to the Civil Hall he was publicly mocked, hauled, frenzily whipped, and finally fell down from high, dying as his head struck the street. Naritoki was trying to show the citizens no true ninja were on the city. Any ninja, or suspected ninja, that he captured could expect brutal torture with death at the end.

Death
Naritoki died, along with True Word, between the hours of the Ox and the Hare, on the third day of the month of the Snake. He was found in the neighborhood of the Little Gate. There were no witnesses. Naritoki was found inside the burned wreckage of his own carriage. His body was examined by an eta called Eyebrows who said that the body had been burned and stabbed through the carriage walls.