Tobuko

Tobuko was the lieutenant of the bandit ronin Niban.

The Setsuban Festival
Niban had founded the Nightingale Village in the hopes of impressing the Phoenix Clan enough to gain his men positions as vassals. To gain their attention, he sent the ronin shugenja Koan to compete in the Setsuban Festival Tournament. The Phoenix judges refused to allow a ronin entry into the tournament, so Niban stole the tournament's prize, a large cache of spell scrolls, and used them to barter Koan into the competition. During the assault to the caravan with the scroll Koan killed the cache's keeper, Iuchi Taiga. The judges agreed, as long as Koan was not allowed to win the tournament. Koan reached the semi-finals, and the tournament was won in the end by Isawa Uona.