Gisei Toshi

Gisei Toshi -- the City of Sacrifice -- is a myth to all outside the Phoenix, and most within as well. The City of Isawa had been long believed to be destroyed by a disaster, but in reality, the city was rebuilt and kept secret from all of Rokugan. The city is so secret that its population is reported to neither the Emperor's census takers nor tax collectors.

Gisei Toshi is the final resting place of the Tao of Shinsei, as well as many other artifacts that the Isawa have collected over the centuries that they do not want known to the empire as a whole.

Gisei Toshi is also the city in which Shiba knelt before Isawa. After his oath, the Phoenix Kami even lived in the city with his new followers.

Gisei Toshi also contains the original seven temples to the Seven Fortunes. The Fortunes were worshipped by the Tribe of Isawa even before the Kami fell, and after the family's acceptance into the Phoenix Clan and Rokugan as a whole, their worship spread among the rest of the empire. (Phoenix pp. 20-21)