Shinjo Kiku

Shinjo Kiku' was a bushi who married with a Dragon fostered to the [Unicorn Clan, Mirumoto Utsuro. During a bandit attack in her husband's estate Kiku took the family's daisho to safety, disobeying a direct order of Utsuro, who had warned the baldes would not be touched upon pain of death. Kiku saved the blade from be stolen, and committed seppuku. She left three scrolls beside her: one asking forgiveness, a haiku, and an explanation of what had happened.