Ugawari family

The Ugawari family was a vassal family in service to the Kuni family of the Crab Clan. Secrets of the Crab, p. 55 They most frequently joined the Hiruma Scout school. Emerald Empire: Third Edition, p. 75
== Founding ==
In the 4th century, the Kuni saw fit to grant vassal family status to the more respectable of their monster-catchers. Thus, the Ugawari were born. Secrets of the Crab, p. 56
== Duty ==
The duty of the Ugawari was to capture Shadowlands creatures for the Kuni to use in experiments. The Atlas of Rokugan, p. 17 The Ugawari were an ill-favored lot; their faces and bodies scarred and warped from hand-to-hand combat. They wrapped their limbs in coarse cloth sleeves, covered their vulnerable areas with battered armor of solid iron, and wore cage-like helmets. They fought with blunt weapons, such as tetsubo, thrown chains, whips, nets, and the man-catcher weapon known as the sasumata. Ugawari were skilled at constructing restraints and dungeons that would hold the creatures they captured. 
== Holdings ==
Ugawari Torid-e was their ancestral home, and it was valiantly defended when the Carpenter Wall Falls. 
== Ugawari Daimyo ==
The following were the known daimyo of the Ugawari:
Ugawari Furoken	(c. 1160)
== See also ==
* Ugawari family/Meta
Category:Vassal families
Category:Crab Clan Families