Iuchi Matsuyo

Iuchi Matsuyo was a high-ranking shugenja of the Unicorn Clan with contacts within his clan. He had heard of the Ningyo legend that anyone that eat Ningyo flesh would become immortal. Matsuyo lived in Mizu Mura, a village near the White Shore Lake, where the rumours said that the Ningyo had contacts with local pearl divers. Matsuyo recruited thugs that kidnapped one of them, Hideyoshi. The Iuchi tortured and questioned him to death, so Matsuyo ordered to kidnap Hideyoshi's brother, Kota. The kidnapping was aborted by a traveler group that began to investigate what was happening there.