Miya Shinako

Please note: This article is about the niece of Miya Emon. For other uses of the term, please see Shinako (disambiguation).
Miya Shinako was the nieces of Miya Emon.
== Poet ==
Miya Shinako was a poet at Otosan Uchi who rivaled with Reju Jikai. Wwhile he was content to teach, she wanted the attention of the court. Shinako ordered a servant to startle horses expecting to injure Jikai so he would be unable to compete on that day in the poetry contest they had arranged, but unfortunately a young student called Daidoji Eisaku was knocked down by one of the horses, and trampled his right hand. The child's father, Daidoji Gombei, hold Jikai accountable for the accident and Jikai's wife, Seppun Azusa, stepped forward to defend him from Gombei's ensuing challenge, who deliberately injured her by slicing the nerves in one wrist, rendering her right hand useless. Disgraced, her rival was sent as shugo of Closed-Shell Castle. Sins of Regret, p. 15
== Closed-Shell Castle ==
Shinako came to the castle to see how her old rival is doing. She knew Jikai was the greater poet; without him she has struggled to have her work noticed. Their rivalry made her words more interesting, and since his departure no one wanted to hear or read her work. 
== Uncle's Death ==
Her uncle Emon moved to Twin Blessings Village, on his way to visit Shinako, during her stay at the castle. She was unaware that Jikai had ordered his samurai to destroy the local way station, and one of them, the rōnin Rin had taken his orders a step further, trapping everyone inside the main building and burned them alive. Normally Emon could call upon the kami to extinguish the flames, but the elemental imbalance in the area prevented this and doomed him. Emon's ancestral wakizashi survived the inferno with no lasting harm, and it was returned to Shinako by a group of samurai. Sins of Regret, p. 8
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