Akodo Meikuko

Please note: This article is about the Lion Clan Champion who was given the Bloodsword Revenge. For other uses of the term, please see Meikuko (disambiguation).
Akodo Meikuko was the Lion Clan Champion who was given the Bloodsword Revenge by Asahina Yajinden in 508.
== Demeanor ==
Meikuko was a woman with a reputation as a cool and levelheaded general. Bloodspeaker, p. 27
== Bloodsword ==
In 509, a year after she got the bloodsword Meikuko reacted violently to a casual statement by a Togashi monk, Legend of the Five Rings; Third Edition p. 13 Togashi Moho, personal advisor of the Emperor Hantei XI. Way of the Wolf, p. 115 The Ise Zumi was challenged by the Lion Champion and died in the ongoning duel. The Dragon replied by quietly leaving the city. Taking the act as an insult to the Emperor whom she served and led 20'000 Lion soldiers in an attack on Togashi Mountain. 
== Death ==
The winter battle that followed was named Red Snow Battle, and only two-thousand of the soldiers survived. Meikuko took her own life with the sword outside the gates of Shiro Mirumoto. Her name would afterwards be synonymous with "mistake" among the Lion. Iuchiban's Legacy In death, her soul was bound as a Yokai to the Bloodsword Revenge. Secrets of the Lion, p. 80
== Legacy ==
Before she committed seppuku Meikuko was allowed to tell Ikoma Sekumi the truth. He depicted 'Meikoku's Mistake' in The Seppuku of Akodo Meikuko. The name of the Lion's Champion would be never used again. Way of the Lion, pp. 104-105
Category:Lion Clan Leaders