Koryu

Shinjo Nobuhito was regarded as the greatest general of the Haisho province, hero of the Battle of Tsugi-Shichi-Mura, and master of Haisho-style Yabusame. He retired as the monk Koryu, joining a monastery of the lotus sutra. The aged monk was visited by Shinjo Itigawa, a devoted student of Nobuhito's treatise on mounted tactics and lieutenant of his grandson. The samurai asked how to defend again Tsugi-Shichi-Mura, which would be attacked by Lion forces in one week. During his talking with Koryu, Itigawa realized that the former general had alreay given him all the necessary knowledge to set in motion his own defensive tactics, and he would need no more advice from the retired general.