Otori Shigeru

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Otori Shigeru: Lord of the Otori Across the Nightingale floor is a novel part of the tales of the Otori trilogy; it is a book revolving a 16-year old boy named Takeo (previously Tamasu) and his life story as an adopted son of a Lord. Somewhere in chapter 2 a new character is introduced named Otori Shigeru. There is no information on when or where he was born when he died, how he was raised and what made him the lord of Hagi. The only problem is that the novel doesn't provide a lot of information about this character in the novel, even if you look at the other books there will be little or no information all; due to the owing fact that this is the first book in the trilogy. What has been provided is that he has a wife named Shirakawa Kaede, …show more content…

He also pursues to make the area of Hagi a peaceful place (Evident). It is clear that he wants to kill the leader of the Tohan to avenge his brother's death, also for the war which he started with the Noguchi clan against the Otori clan. Also, the Noguchi clan is against the Seishu clan which then created the reason for an alliance between the Tohan and the Seishu clan. The book doesn't give the backstory of his brother's death since it starts straight from Takeo's perspective and isn't described later in the book. Otori Shigeru also has a role which is really important, because if something goes wrong in his plan when going to attack the two clans, they can infiltrate and massacre all the villagers. It is also crucial for lord Otori to watch Takeo and treat him as a care-worthy father instead of a maid to tell raise him and tell him what is right and wrong. Other roles include managing the clan, feeding his horse Ryu, sharpening his beloved sword Jato and also manage meetings with Lady Maruyama; they have done this so they can kill both the leaders of the Noguchi and Tohan clan. His enemies are Takeo's Father (Kikuta Isamu), Iida Sadamu and the Leader of the Noguchi clan. The complication is that we don't get allot of the information on the leader of the Noguchi clan, also we are not sure if Otori Shigeru wants to kill him. He has the authority to do this because he has alliances with Iida Sadamu. It is evident that one of his objectives is to make the tribe more peaceful since there has been some conflict after some villagers heard about the fact that they are going to attack Lord Iida in Inuyama. Takeo states "I saw the devastating effect of their rule on the common people, I decided a more worthwhile response would be to live and seek revenge. I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people. If the ruler is just, the land receives the

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