Kakita Shiko (TCG)

Kakita Shiko was a courtier of the Crane Clan.

Family
Shiko was daughter to Kakita Shijin, one of the most famous living poets in the Empire.

Lover
Shiko was also an artist on her own, and in 1123 she was selected to attend an artistic competition to take place in the Fantastic Gardens with another of the more prominent young artisans of the Crane Clan, Kakita Torikago. In the constest they had to create a work of art that would be given to the Emperor's son. Shike and Torikago were actually lovers, and the night after the competition began, someone stole Shiko's collection of Torikago's love letters. A group of samurai uncovered the guilty, the patron of a Crane courtier whose appointment to Otosan Uchi was derailed by Torikago's promotion. The rival had intended to blackmail Torikago into losing the competition, hoping this would discredit him enough that his assignment would be rescinded.