Archive of June 2005
Fri 10 Jun
It Is Said
It is said that some time in the years of the Temmon Era there was a certain man—an assassin—who was more feared than any samurai or warlord before him. Legends tell of this man, who spent his entire life in darkness, and who could end the life of any man in Japan. So that he would be completely comfortable at night, it was said, when he came to kill his target, for as long as anyone had known of his existence he was never once seen in the light. Those few messengers who could say they had ever been there said that in his house there were no windows, and there were no lanterns anywhere.
