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A bedraggled, homeless-looking, middle-aged man came to the compound and fell on his knees in front of Ichiro declaring him to be his lord, Ichiro-sama the son of the daimyo. He claims to have been searching for him for the past 30 years.
Although he barely remembers it, Nobu eventually recalls his own name, though he still frequently appears to be looking at things that aren't there.
Iuchi Sadako
seemed to believe that Nobu was a shape-shifted tanuki, something that seemed at least
partly borne out when he stated that he was indeed a member of the Tanuki Clan, living in a small village deep within the Shinomen Forest.
After asking for his help when they were in Otosan Uchi, a bundle of documents arrived courtesy of Agasha Hanori.
He had looked through the Imperial Archives on behalf of Ichiro and
found that there was indeed a record of a Tanuki Clan.
A small offshoot
of the Badger, they lived in the Shinomen Forest
over a hundred years ago where they submitted reports on various
strange and unbelievable things. When the Emperor was succeeded by his
son, who had no such appetite for his father's flights of fancy, he
sought to dissolve the clan, but found that the reports had abruptly ceased. He dispatched an Imperial Survey Team
to the recorded location of their village but despite spending a week
searching they were unable to find any trace that there had ever been
any such settlement.