Ichiro Akitomo

Please note: This article is about the Badger Clan Champion. For other uses of the term, please see Akitomo (disambiguation).
Ichiro Akitomo was Champion of the Badger Clan.
== Topaz Championship ==
In 1118 Imperial Histories, p. 127 Fealty and Freedom, p. 13 Akitomo attended a Topaz Championship at the behest of the Matsu Daimyo Matsu Tsuko, who sought to enlist the Badger as allies for the Lion. Roleplaying in the Emerald Empire, p. 213 The Emperor Hantei XXVIII honored the tournament with his presence. Roleplaying in the Emerald Empire, p. 210
== Death ==
Akitomo was assassinated, alongside with his four bushi bodyguards in the Topaz Tournament murdered by assassins under Yogo Asami's orders. The reason of his death was that Akitomo had learned that Bayushi Kachiko used Asami as her double, and Asami killed him to maintain the secret. His younger brother Ichiro Chuga became the Badger Champion upon his death. Way of the Minor Clans, p. 67
=== Shoju's support on the murder ===
Bayushi Shoju, the Scorpion Clan Champion and Kachiko's husband, had already planned Akitomo's death. To prevent a Badger - Lion alliance Shoju ordered the Scorpion contestant of the tournament, Bayushi Sugai, with the help of Bayushi Aramoro, to kill Akitomo, and plant counterfeit evidence on one  of Badger Daimyo's own yojimbos, marking the guard as a ninja and implicating Akitomo's karo in an assassination plot. 
Category:Badger Clan Leaders