Taimana Choryū

Slow Tide Harbor was a thriving port town located only a short day's ride north of the Imperial City of Otosan Uchi. Dark Tides, p. 2
== Appearance ==
Built on a peninsula in a swampy, irregular lagoon that was itself an offshoot of the Bay of the Golden Sun, the town's coastline run for almost a li along the curving, irregular northern shore of the bay. The town boasted about three thousand residents. Slow Tide Harbor was home to a powerful criminal class, which operated in a sort of mutual truce with the Tortoise. Dark Tides, pp. 2, 6 As magistrates of Slow Tide Harbor, the Tortoise Clan presided over one of the most notorious havens for smugglers, criminals, and gaijin in the Empire. Legend of the Five Rings - Roleplaying, p. 18
=== Opium Dens ===
This obscure and disreputable town rivaled with Ryokō Owari Toshi and the City of the Open Hand as a place with open toleration about the abuse of opium. Dark Tides, pp. 10-11
== Known Governors ==
* Kasuga Mugatsu - c. 1123
== Notable Locations ==
* The Governor's Neighborhood - the governor maintained there an official residence, a large two-story estate with a walled garden and attached stables, guard station, and servants'quarters. It also homed the Shrine to Jikoju. Dark Tides, pp. 4-5
* The Merchant District
* The Dockside
* The Wallow
* Residential and Farming - a series of residences interspersed with small shops of artisans and smiths. Ssurrounding the landward side of Slow Tide Harbor were the grain farms and rice fields which the peasant tended. Dark Tides, p. 7
* The Burakumin Village
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