Crane-Crab War

The First Internal War in Rokugan
Three hundred years after the defeat of Fu Leng the first internal war in Rokugan occured. The Crane and Crab had both established settlements in the Kenkai Hanto Peninsula.

Conflict was inevitable.

The Crab claimed the Crane had no need for the land, and the Crane said the Crab were foolish to set up so far from the Shadowlands.

Escalation
The Lady Doji Mizhime asked the Emperor to settle the dispute. Lord Hida Ichido was not interested in the Emperor's opinion and launched an attack on the peninsula before the Crane had eeven spoken to the Emperor.

Ichido quickly captured the entire peninsula, but Mizhime used the Crane's influences in the courts to cut the Crab off from their supplies. When the crab were low on food and munitions the Crane lauched a counter attack, easily forcing the Crab back out of the peninsula.

Breakaway of the Yasuki
It was at this point that the Yasuki Daimyo Yasuki Tsanumi came to Ichido's aid. Mizhime demanded immediately that the Yasuki cease their ooperations with the Crab, but they refused, and since Lady Doji would not hear their argument the Yasuki decided to break away.

The stranglehold on the Crab supplies was broken by the Yasuki and Ichido could again resume the attack on the peninsula, this time with even greater success than before.

Before the conflict could escalate further the Emperor intervened and declared the peninsula to be split between the two clans. The Yasuki could not retunr to the Crane at this point so Ichido willingly accepted the Yasuki into the Crab as they sorely needed liasons to the other clans.