Shiko family

The Shiko family was a vassal family of the Ide family of the Unicorn Clan.

Founding
When the plague scourged the Empire in the twelfth century, the Horiuchi family was entinct. Among the few survivors was a woman named Horiuchi Shiko, an armoursmith who had mastered the craft of horse barding.

Shiko was taken into the Ide family and granted a vassal family so that the Horiuchi's techniques wouldn't be lost.

Duties
The Shiko were a Juhin-Kenzoku, a quartermaster or forgery family, of the Unicorn Clan.

Major References

 * Book of Earth p.36