Kuni Watabe

Kuni Watabe was the Kuni Daimyo during the reign of Hantei XII in the 6th century.

Heresy of the Five Rings
In the year 519 the monk Gorinno exposed his radical doctrine of Five Rings, Five Clans, and proposed to merge the Scorpion and Crane Clans as a cure for the imbalance he perceived in the Empire. The famous monk was arrested by Emerald Magistrate for heresy, but the personal intervention of Hantei XII released him. The prominent Phoenix shugenja Isawa Amiku and Watabe treated Gorinno's proposal as a valid idea, and they eventually created a religious movement which would be known as the Heresy of the Five Rings. A series of peasant revolts followed, and soon the Brotherhood of Shinsei itself was plagued by acts of violence between its various sects.