Kinryoku

Kinryoku was a ronin who protected the governor of the Otosan Uchi district, which would be known as Meiyoko, from an assassination attempt, dying on the assassin's blade. The stain of his blood was clearly visible on a stone, which rested next to a tall marble statue erected by the governor he saved. People celebrated the Festival of the Bloody Stone, visiting the statue and left rice and flowers upon the stone each year on the anniversary of his death, the fourteenth day of the Month of the Serpent.