Part the fifth: (Glossary)
Toranaga's Faux Pas
As the fascinating story of Toranaga, Shogun and High Lord of The Canton continues, in unbridled fury he has ordered his koroshiya to behead not only the house-gardener and the choreographer of the dance in which he was unable to click his heels together, but the koroshiya himself.
The suspense, even now almost unbearable, continues to build...
.... The koroshiya, trembling in his boots as he was quite terrified of Toranaga's wrath, sprang into a frenzy of action. His flashing blades whirled and sparkled in the morning's cold frosty air as he...
... hastened to obey his Master's commands.
But in his zeal, while executing a newly acquired maneuver, the famous and flashy but extremely difficult triple Shitzitzu move, he inadvertently sliced the obi of Toranaga-sama's kimono in two.
Suddenly unrestrained, the lofty one's smock not only fell open but his hakama dropped clean down to his socks, exposing to all those present .not only a pair of knobby knees, but also two quite bowed legs featuring flaccid, chubby, pale thighs, dimpled with cellulite.
Oy-Veh! What can this mean? gasped all within view as they realized Toranaga's shameful break with the time-honored, ancient Japanese way.
Sacrilege!... This is a mortal insult to both the Gods and traditions of the Samurai! they angrily protested.
Toranaga, not only frightened but humiliated beyond words, fled from both the shokudu and mounting wrath of the raucous crowd making Anjin-san, who had appeared in the meanwhile as directed by the summons of Toranaga's shitsuji, the senior male present.
What will the Englishman do with what could very well be
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Does The Anjin have the חוצפּה to act quickly and decisively?
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