Lady Xianhua | On the Oyashimans

[Lady Xi 18]

On the Oyashimans

 

You do not know me and you won't. You will know my words, my stories of the depths of the Jade State of Yong Ping and of the many lives found within.

And with this next story, we shall begin that of the Oyashimans but more specifically Tsune Hirano.

 

Minister of Education, Diplomat and High Steward, Tsune Hirano

Lady Tsune Hirano was a woman of refined tastes before that of her passing. She prided herself on her way of dress and speak and kept closely to that of her culture and beginnings. An older woman, she was a rolemodel to many and had a way about her to set both examples and trends. Having originally come to Yong Ping when it was but a settlement, after its initial founding, she found a job in the Ministry of Interior as a Steward and soon worked her way steadily up to that of a High Steward with her sale rate. Shortly afterwards, when she received news her son Saburo Ishikawa would be coming to live with under an established branch of the Ishikawa family, she began her work of establishing Tsutenkaku as a personal estate. She'd been married to Yikuwashi Ishikawa and done much to bring both credit and honor to the name. Even after she came to move into the personal estate, she continued her work within the Jade State. Having undergone the state exams, she'd come to work as a diplomat, one who made contact with Krugmar and kept relations more then amiable. In her later years, plans began that of a Ministry of Education, the woman undergoing speaking with various people to set up an educational system for the youth of Yong Ping and Tsutenkaku both. Many a thing has been said about this woman, even that of darker tidings and she'd prove them wrong time and time again. Well-respected, with a name earned through her hard work, she is certainly one that someone should study the history of and learn through her actions how to better themselves.

 

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Signed,

Lady Xianhua, speaker of truth, gossip and the entertaining

[Minuvas 3193]

Reads the Story, sighing
"As a young Mali, I studied under an Oyashiman man who revealed to me the deep fissure of the Oyashiman soul within the Jade State. The Li-Ren  have repressed their culture and prevented the strong martial, and culturally superior Oyashiman from flourishing, I am curious as to whether they shall speak this truth. Or whether the Oyashiman culture shall slowly fade away into submission as they become mocked for 'gossip' and 'entertainment'.

As I heard the Oyashiman man say, there is no peace - only breath between conflicts."  

Minuvas laments to himself in his office, explaining to his Clerk why he cares at all about affairs in some tiny southern nation on the Imperial borders, thinking of when he was but a child learning of the way of the Bushido.