Nanbu family

The Nanbu family was a minor vassal family of the Soshi family that had little influence over the empire’s politics, and only occasional trade kept them aware of events and helped the village grow. Way of the Wolf, p. 4
== Followers of the Soshi ==
Nanbu was a budoka, Emerald Empire: Third Edition, p. 80 who once led a group of peasants who saved the life of Soshi Saibankan, who had been ambushed at Otosan Uchi. They became their personal guard. Nanbu's son, named for his father, continued to serve
Saibankan, and after his death, served the magistrate's daughter, the shugenja Soshi Sayoko. After Nanbu nearly died uncovering a rival's plot to poison Sayoko, she promised him that so long as his sons carried his name, that they would serve the Soshi. Secrets of the Scorpion, pp. 58-59
== Foundation ==
A century later the Soshi Daimyo proclaimed them an official vassal family, the Nanbu family. Secrets of the Scorpion, p. 59 The ancestral lands of the Nanbu were nestled in a small valley near the Spine of the World Mountains, in view of White Shore Plain, as close to Unicorn territory as Scorpion. Way of the Wolf, p. 78
=== Duty ===
They guarded the Soshi farmlands, becoming little more than a note in the Scorpion tax collectors'journals, rustic, backwoods samurai. The Nanbu were a parochial family, with little knowledge or influence regarding the rest of Rokugan. The Nanbu rarely saw combat, or even a member of another clan, for nearly seven hundred years. 
== Disbanded ==
After the Scorpion Coup the family were to be judged as the rest of the Scorpion Clan, but the daimyo, Nanbu Tsuchiya, appeared from Shiro Nanbu when the Emperors legions showed up to demand that the Soshi retainers surrender for questioning. Tsuchiya forebade his samurai from coming forth, and then he commited seppuku with Matsu Chokoku gracing him as to be his second. The Nanbu name was cleared but the family was disbanded and their holdings became a garrison. 
== Reinstated ==
Tzurui, Tsuchiya's son, was a member of the Toturi's Army who died during the final days of the War of Spirits in 1150. His friend and Monkey Clan Champion Toku sent a request to the new Soshi Daimyo, Soshi Uidori. Several months later, Tzurui's daughter, Nanbu Kochoko, was appointed as Nanbu Daimyo. Kochoko gathered the survivors of the family, and alongside few Monkey samurai, former students of Tzurui, occupied Shiro Nanbu again. 
== Nanbu Daimyo ==
Nanbu Tsuchiya	? - 1123
Disbanded 	1123 - 1150
Nanbu Kochoko 	1150 - ?
== See also ==
* Nanbu family/Meta
Daimyo Nanbu
Category:Vassal families
Category:Scorpion Clan Families
Category:Scorpion Clan Leaders