Utaku Chiaki

Utaku Chiaki was a member of the Ki-Rin Clan. Lacking food and water after a journey across the Black Plain, they foudn a oasis, but her Lady Shinjo-no-Kami warned them to eat nothing, to harm no animal, and to drink no water before she went into that place to get the blessing of the spirit's place. After eight days, Chiaki, desperate for food and water to feed her people, killed a deer and drank water from the grove. Suddenly the oasis vanished with no sign of Shinjo. Then, a unicorn galloped to the west, and so the people followed it. They found another oasis and waited eight more days until Shinjo, who was with child, appeared to them. She told that the Unicorn spirit of the oasis requested another life for the deer they slew, one of Shinjo's children. They remained in the grove for some months until Shinjo delivered five children, and one of them would return to the oasis when they would be old enough to decide whom for themselves.