Lady's Rest

The Lady's Rest is the name for the largest of the rocks where Lady Doji last stood before being lost to the sea. The night before a new samurai becomes the Crane Clan Champion, he spends the night on these rocks searching for the wisdom of Lady Doji and praying for her to guide him on his new path. Lady's Rest It is decorated with flowers each year during the Chrysanthemum Festival by maidens from all of the clans. Superstition says that maidens who make such remembrances will be very lucky in their love lives. (Crane pp. 30-31)