Soshi Meiwaku

Asahina Meiwaku was a shugenja maiden of the Crane Clan in the 10th century who married and became part of the Soshi family.

Married
As a a political arrangement she married a prominent Soshi Shugenja, Soshi Toraburu. She was ostracized by her new family and Meiwaku decided to show Scorpions what true loyalty was. She gifted Toraburu with a fan after one of his long business trips, and was entrusted him to gave it to her father at first occasion.

Meiwaku fans
He kept his promise, and during dinner Toraburu noticed he could hear the old man's thoughts as the Crane spoke to him wielding his daughter's fan. Upon his return Toraburu begged his wife to make more fans, and in return she asked for a second gempukku ceremony and that she be officially accepted into the family and the Clan. During the ritual performed by Toraburu the Soshi Daimyo and a full-fledged delegation of Soshi members were there. On every anniversary of that ceremony, she gave her husband a new fan.