Matsu Kori

Matsu Kori was a samurai-ko representative of the Hito district in the Sentaku Tribunal at Otosan Uchi prior to the Scorpion Coup.

Early Years
Kori was a bushi with taste for the arts, and her friend Otaku Geshiko was a warrior to the core. They knew each other from childhood, as their families were ‘old nobility’ of the Hito district. Until their gempukku, the two studied under the same sensei and sparred against one another daily. Kori ussed his family's funds to buy art, which was passed to Miya Yoto, and exposed in one wing of Kibo, the Miya palace at Otosan Uchi.

Sentaku Tribunal
Kori and Geshiko became the Hito representatives at the Sentaku Tribunal, with the duty to cater the military applicants who wished to enter the Forbidden City. They publicly bickered incessantly over every application, which was found too much emotional for most people, who withdrew their applications. Only those who were genuinely devoted to entering the Forbidden City had the tolerance to endure their unorthodox questioning.

Suitor
Kori in 1123 had begun to be courted by Ikoma Gomuri, assistant to the Hito Governor Ide Ukuri. One night they went together to a Noh performance. She did not know the lechery Gomuri was courting her friend Geshiko at the same time.