#Region Cross-Reference (圈域交叉表)

Contents

Authority. This table is Summary — an ordering of the correspondences joining this volume's ten regions, the canon's six regions, and the old system's Roads (道) and old provinces (舊國); it makes no new land, no new power, no new Law (法). Where name and division look different from the narrator's prose, follow this table and the Sixty-Odd Provinces List; where this table looks different from the canon, follow the canonical Lands of the Sengoku. Only §3 "At the Table" is Scene Tool. This volume has no Law — if you need numbers, go to the canon co. The promise of this whole book is in About This Book.

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#The Road — The Exchange of Names

From Pinto's diary. Aboard the boat leaving Shikoku to cross to Kii — and that night, at a lodging on the shore.

As we cleared the strait the boatman slackened his oar. With his chin he pointed at the shore we had left, then at the shore we would reach. "That side is Nankaido too, this side is Nankaido too. You, sir, took the boat within one and the same Road."

The Tongue carried it over, and I asked again. "One Road with a sea set between. Is a road not a thing joined by foot?" The boatman laughed. "Not a road drawn by foot. A road drawn as seen from Miyako."

At night I borrowed a hearth at a lodging on the shore. A Sakai merchant talked long of the eastern trade — the price of horses in Kanto, the price of iron in Kanto. I opened my ledger and asked the Tongue. "Of the seven Roads, which Road is Kanto?" The Tongue drew a line in the ash of the hearth with the poker. "No Road at all. It is only what they call the fields east of the Barrier (關) — not a name of the system, but a name of the mouth."

So tonight's reckoning is this. The land of this country has three sets of names. One set the old system drew — the five inner provinces and seven branching Roads. One set stuck to the mouths of the people — Kanto, Hokkoku, and the like, callings that pass in the market though they are in no ledger. And one set the names of my diary — the ten chapters my own steps bound in turn. Unlike us, the people of this country mix the three sets without a thought, and the hearer makes them out without a thought. It is only the outsider who loses his way.

A merchant does not lay out a stall, in a harbor where several coinages turn, without a table of exchange. Only when there is a table between this coin and that coin does the ledger live. Names are like coin — a ledger set down in the wrong name is a price received in the wrong coin. So tonight I make a table for the exchange of names. In one column the name of the system, in one column the name of the mouth, in one column the name of my chapters.

The Sword spoke, rarely, from beyond the hearth. "That table — will you sell it?" "I will sell it," I answered. "Only, the price of this table is known only after the living have ceased to lose their way."

Grinding my ink I add one line. A table of exchange makes no coin — it only lays a bridge between coins already there. May this table likewise make no land. May it lay only a bridge, between what I saw and what I was told.

Editor's note: That table of exchange was tucked into the sixth bundle — set down in the order of the narrator's steps, with rows here and there at odds with the old system. The main table below is the editor's redrawing of it to fit the divisions of the old system and the canon. Where the table differs from the narrator's prose, trust the table.

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#1. The Principle of Correspondence — What Is the Standard

The three sets of names stand thus.

• The canon's six regions are the standard. Of Lands of the Sengoku, Kinai (畿內), Kanto (關東), Omi (近江), Kii (紀伊), Saikai (西海), Ou (奧羽) — the standard of the campaign stage, and the seat where Law is set (powers, the tendency of yoma encounter, the distribution of schools, scenario hooks) is there too.
• This volume's ten regions are a reading-side division that subdivides and supplements those six. Of the ten chapters the narrator's feet bound, six overlap the canonical regions, and four (Sanyo-Sanin, Shikoku, Tokai, Hokuriku-Shinetsu) fill seats the canon does not draw apart. They fill them — but there is no Law there. Only scenery and rumor.
• In a clash the canon is always right. Where any chapter of this volume speaks differently from the canon, the side that is wrong is this volume — more precisely, the narrator who so saw or so heard. If this table has made a new division or a new Law, that is a misuse of the table.

The third set, the name of the old system, is the Gokishichido (五畿七道) — the old reckoning that divides sixty-six provinces and two islands by the five inner provinces (畿內) and seven branching Roads. Since the passes and ledgers and old documents of this country use this reckoning, the main table sets it up as the central pillar and joins the two sets of names on either side.

The standard of naming, too, this table holds. This volume's second chapter is Sanyo-Sanin — though there is in the world a bundling name that calls the two Roads together otherwise, this volume sets them down by the names of the Roads. The eighth chapter is Hokuriku-Shinetsu — the calling that bundles the three mountain-side provinces otherwise, this volume does not use either. Where another document of this volume has used a notation different from this, the notation of this table is the standard.

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#2. The Main Table — The Correspondence of Three Systems

The kanji of the Roads are set down here once only — Kinai (畿內), Tokaido (東海道), Tosando (東山道), Hokurikudo (北陸道), Sanindo (山陰道), Sanyodo (山陽道), Nankaido (南海道), Saikaido (西海道). The kanji of the province names and the per-province index the Sixty-Odd Provinces List holds — to copy the same kanji over into two ledgers is the first sickness of a ledger, so this table separates by kanji only the two provinces whose names overlap.

What the ten chapters of observation gather is, of the sixty-six provinces, sixty-four and two islands. The circumstance of the two that remain — Iga and Awaji — remark ② gathers.

#Remark ① — The Three Seats of Kai

The old system places Kai on the Tokaido — and the assignment of the main table holds that as the formal one. Meanwhile the canonical Lands of the Sengoku, when it sets the table of Kanto, bundles Musashi and Kai into one stage (the heading of the scenario hook is "Musashi/Kai") — because the battlefield of the fields and the back gate of the mountains often come up together in one story. And this volume, following the narrator's feet, treats Kai as a mountain province of Observation 8. The three are not a clash but bundles of differing use — the seat of the system (Tokaido), the seat of the table (Kanto), the seat of the feet (Observation 8). If a campaign raises Kai onto the stage, simply use the Law of the canonical Kanto region as it is.

#Remark ② — Iga and Awaji

To none of the ten chapters of observation were Iga (Tokaido) and Awaji (Nankaido) assigned. The narrator's feet did not reach them, and this volume does not invent an empty cell to fill them. The one-line impression and kanji of the two provinces are in the Sixty-Odd Provinces List — that one line is all this volume set down for the two countries.

#Remark ③ — The Seat of the Muhyeon Band

The canonical Lands of the Sengoku places the Muhyeon Band in the powers column of the Kii region while setting its seat down as "near Kurama." The name Kurama is heard both as the calling of the northern hills near Miyako, and as an old calling of the spirit-mountain where the tengu dwell — which mountain it is the canon does not cut and say, and the main table does not cut it either. Where the mountain of the tengu lies is the canon's and the GM's. The narrator, in any case, could not climb that mountain.

#Remark ④ — The Calling of Emishi

The canonical Lands of the Sengoku sets down Ou as "the old land of the Emishi (Ainu)." That parenthetical is read as the broad common appellation that calls the old people of the north widely from afar — this volume's Observation 10 set down apart the descendants of the Emishi met on the road and the Ainu farther north across the sea. The two accounts are not a clash. Called from afar it is one name; seen up close it is many faces.

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#3. At the Table — Choosing the Stage

Scene Tool. Only this section is a GM scene tool. How to use the main table for choosing a campaign stage.

The stage begins from the canonical region and widens to the volume region. The canon's six regions have Law — powers, the tendency of yoma encounter, the distribution of schools, and the hooks that can be rolled. The campaign drops its anchor there. This volume's ten chapters are the sea around that anchor — take the mood keywords from the table of the canonical Lands of the Sengoku, and take the scenery and rumor from the chapters of this volume.

If you wish to make one of the four regions without a canonical region your main stage — for Sanyo-Sanin borrow the Law of Saikai, for Shikoku the Law of Kii, for Tokai the Law of Kinai and Kanto by halves, for Hokuriku-Shinetsu the Law of Kanto and Ou, and begin. Borrow the Law from the canon and take the face from the chapters of this volume, and the stage stands without covering the canon.

Editor's note: For the borrowed Law it is enough to set down only where it was borrowed from. That borrowing, piling up and setting firm, becomes the map of your table alone — and that map covers neither the canon nor this volume.

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The names are three sets, the Roads seven branches, the regions six — yet the land was one set from the first.