Archived-Fujita Kazuhiko
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Personal Information
Appearance
Dark haired, dark eyed, usually dressed in a kimono and carrying a hand fan to hide his thoughts behind.
Personality
Lord Fujita endeavours to uphold the virtues of bushido as best he can, but often finds himself disappointed by the lack of virtuous behaviour in others. Having played host to European Invictus visiting Japan in the past he has also found personal affirmation in the French concept of noblesse oblige.
He seeks hierarchy because through hierarchy comes order and power - but also believes a good leader gains power by strengthening those who follow. To that end, he attempts to deal fairly and honestly with every kindred he meets regardless of clan or covenant.
As a practitioner of Shinto, he sees little difference between the Lancea Sanctum and the Circle of the Crone and believes worshipping one kami over all others seems unreasonable.
Mortal World
In most respects Kazuhiko has left the mortal world behind. He still has a family of retainers from his time in Japan, but otherwise he views kindred as a sort of spirit court that protects and helps keep the balance for the mortal world.
Information Known by Kindred Society
- He may have earned more titles of tribute than he is credited with; whispers say that his sire and siblings were overly self-entitled and denied their vassals any right to claim their own deeds and glories instead claiming their vassals' achievements as their own, and this behaviour was why Kazuhiko's family suddenly "disappeared" and their names conveniently forgotten - but Kazuhiko himself does not talk about his sire or siblings
- Is an old friend of the Marquis Aurialanus, both having a healthy respect for each other's dueling skills
- Has played host to European members of the First and Second Estates on their travels to Japan
Rumours
- He does not like touching other kindred, possibly because shaking hands is too similar to katate-dori-style openings for an attack
- Digging into his early history occasionally brings up references to a nickname, "the Komainu"
Lords and Vassals
Lords
Current
Vassals
Backstory
Personal Timeline
- 1673: Kazuhiko is born in Nara to a samurai family fallen on hard times.
- 1697: Kazuhiko is sired by █████████ for use as an obedient and uncomplaining warrior.
- 17??: Following rampant corruption and dishonourable conduct, █████████ and the majority of his childer "disappear" in a single day and all records of their existences "mysteriously vanish". By contrast Kazuhiko, having proven himself a loyal and long-suffering servant of some value, was quickly picked up as another lord's vassal and began work towards restoring the honour of his tainted lineage.
- 1868: End of the Tokugawa shogunate and the Edo period, beginning of the Meiji Imperial restoration.
- 1873-1877: Conscription law passed causing samurai rebellions and, with the defeat of the samurai by Imperial forces, the end of the samurai ruling caste.
- 1902: As an elder of trustworthy, loyal and honourable reputation - a relic of a culture now lost - Kazuhiko is avused into the Sotoha bloodline.
- 1912: End of the Meiji era, beginning of the era of the Taishō Emperor and the democratisation of Japan.
- 1914: Start of World War I.
- 1915: Having seen the end of the shogunate, the end of the samurai ruling caste and the start of the first world war, Kazuhiko decides to pass into eclipse in the hopes of waking to a better world.
- 2014: 99 years after going into torpor Kazuhiko wakes to find that Japan has changed entirely beyond recognition - and as an added blow one of his fellow vassals committed hinomi while Kazuhiko slumbered, which has rendered him ronin and scattered many of his former compatriots. At the request of some European friends he decides to move to Australia, in the hopes that service there can ease his sense of loss.
Quotes
Conversations
Quotes About
"I expect he will adapt to modern technological marvels without horrendous difficulty. Current kindred notion of honour on the other hand...."
Quotes By
Inspirations
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
"That's a technicality!"
"I am Vulcan sir, we embrace technicality."
"You giving me attitude Spock?"
"I'm expressing multiple attitudes simultaneously sir, to which are you referring?"
- - Admiral Pike and Spock, Star Trek: Into Darkness
"Let one walk alone, committing no sin, with few wishes, like elephants in the forest."
- - Chief Aramaki, Ghost in the Shell 2
"Through intense training the samurai becomes quick and
strong. He is not as other men. He develops a power that
must be used for the good of all. He has compassion. He
helps his fellow men at every opportunity. If an opportunity
does not arise, he goes out of his way to find one."
- - Akodo's Leadership (on the topic of compassion), L5R
"Rise up above the masses of people who are afraid to act.
Hiding like a turtle in a shell is not living at all. A samurai
must have heroic courage. It is absolutely risky. It is
dangerous. It is living life completely, fully, wonderfully.
Heroic courage is not blind. It is intelligent and strong.
Replace fear with respect and caution."
- - Akodo's Leadership (on the topic of courage), L5R
"Samurai have no reason to be cruel. They do not need
to prove their strength. A samurai is courteous even to
his enemies. Without this outward show of respect, we
are nothing more than animals. A samurai is not only
respected for his strength in battle, but also by his dealings
with other men. The true inner strength of a samurai
becomes apparent during difficult times."
- - Akodo's Leadership (on the topic of courtesy), L5R
"For the samurai, having done some ‘thing’ or said some
‘thing,’ he knows he owns that ‘thing.’ He is responsible
for it and all the consequences that follow. A samurai is
intensely loyal to those in his care. To those he is responsible
for, he remains fiercely true."
- - Akodo's Leadership (on the topic of duty), L5R
"Be acutely honest throughout your dealings with all
people. Believe in justice, not from other people, but from
yourself. To a true samurai, there are no shades of gray
in the question of honesty and justice. There is only right
and wrong."
- - Akodo's Leadership (on the topic of honesty), L5R
"A true samurai has only one judge of his honor, and that
is himself. Decisions you make and how those decisions
are carried out are a reflection of who you truly are. You
cannot hide from yourself."
- - Akodo's Leadership (on the topic of honour), L5R
"When a samurai has said he will perform an action, it
is as good as done. Nothing will stop him from completing
what he has said he will do. He does not have to ‘give his
word.’ He does not have to ‘promise.’ The action of speaking
alone has set the act of doing in motion. Speaking and
doing are the same action."
- - Akodo's Leadership (on the topic of sincerity), L5R