Victory of the Living Blade Dojo

The Victory of the Living Blade Dojo is the newest of the Dragon dojo, and rests on the outlying lands of the Clan just between the borders of the Dragon and the Dragonfly Clan. The building itself was completed during the War of Spirits, and Togashi Hoshi himself commanded that work should proceede even though the Dragon were at war. The final rituals to bless the building and complete the work were done merely days before the announcement that the war was over. The naming of the dojo was an obvious reference to the war, but it also reflects on the philosophy of Mirumoto and his decendants.

Traditions
Dynamic learning and thinking holds high regard with those at this school, and therefore the doors are alway open for those who wish to exchange knowledge. The Mirumoto here never expect bushi from other clans to reveal secrets of a different style, but simply to exchange ideas on how swordplay should be executed and practiced. When a student feels he is prepared to come of age he is expected to perform a simple task, invent a new kata and defeat every first year member of his practice group (usually somewhere between twenty to twentyfive students in a group). This way the students learn humility from a young age, and then display superiority over their past as they age.

Training
Anyone who has spent at least a year at the dojo are treated as sensei by anyone with a shorter tenure there. Classes are held much less frequently then at other schools, and the teachings here mainly focus on each student finding their own path. For this purpose they have agiant library within the walls of the dojo, where many students can be found searching for wisdoms to apply to their own way of life. Naturally many of the scrolls in the dojo are concerned with warfare and swordplay.

Visitor's Blades
Any visitor at the dojo from an other clan is asked when using the library to leave a scroll on a rack at the fore of the library when they are finished at the dojo. This rack is known as the Visitor's Blades, and contains information about what each of those students had learnt from the research. more often than not there is nothing particularily insightful written, but due to the sheer amount of visitors there is the occasional one with some clever or cunning thought.

The Sword
To the students at the dojo the love for their sword is flaced just a notch below the love for their lord, and it is said that a married swordmaster of the dojo tjat "the woman who maintains his home, his mistress, but the true bride in his obi". To them the sword is life, not three feet of death, and they tend to find joy in the contest of steel.

Sensei
As a very recent school there have been few to hold the position as grandmaster sensei. The very first training school of the Swordmasters was held at the Iron Mountain Dojo under the watchful eye of Kitsuki Meda who had studied the Niten style, and was hailed as a genius by the Mirumoto family. After his death during the War Against Shadow the talented Mirumoto Uso was appointed after Togashi Hoshi became Dragon Clan Champion. It was Uso who petitioned Hoshi for the construction of the dojo, and when Uso became the Mirumoto Daimyo the position was passed on to Mirumoto Akohime. No true precedent has been set with the choosing of the next sensei, and Akohime was silent on the matter.

Notable Students

 * Mirumoto Hojatsu
 * Mirumoto Tsuge

Major References

 * Way of the Samurai Pages 31-32