Accident in the Storehouse

There has been an accident in the main storehouse today at Castle Noriaibasha, which means that most clan-members are left at loose ends with very little to do. The storehouse includes the armory, the records-house, and the priestly supplies. Poor Chifumi, the priestess who serves with the quartermaster, can do absolutely nothing; she has no candles or incense for her devotions, and the books with the records she must update are also inaccessible.

I have one project that does not require access to the armory and its weapon store: A kata in the Jōgesen style, to be called the Kirin Way. The first parts of this kata were laid down by a mercenary who was in the clan’s employ for a while, and who passed his scrolls on to me before leaving. (I was chosen to receive this knowledge, because of my prior experience with the Jōgesen ryū.)

Others are doing what drills they can, or exercising, or sparring with empty hands and feet. From time to time, they send someone to check on the quartermaster’s progress in re-opening the storehouse. In the meantime, I am using my own sansetsukon in a corner of the castle’s courtyard, trying to find the best ways to turn this fragmentary sequence of moves into a working kata.

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