Zeshi family

The Zeshi family was a vassal family of the Iuchi family of the Unicorn Clan.

Founding
The vassal family was founded in the tenth century by Iuchi Zeshi, the Iuchi daimyo's son, who did not possess the gift to talk to the kami. He found a way to serve his clan in another way.

Duties
The Zeshi were a Juhin-Kenzoku, a quartermaster or forgery family, of the Unicorn Clan. They provided the clan with the bulk of its modern riding armour. Among the Unicorn they are famed for their excellent leather-working skills, but relatively unknown to the rest of the Empire, because of the Rokugani taboo against working with dead flesh.

Major References

 * Book of Earth p.36