Where has Usagi traveled so far?
(Silver Bullet Comics Interview, November 2000) I have a rough idea of where Usagi has traveled to. He started off in northern Honshu (the main island) and is currently working his way to the city of Nagoya near Kyoto. I don’t know how many lords have been introduced but the principal political figure in the land is the new Shogun (historically Tokugawa Ieyasu). There is a power in the shadows that is attempting to gain the shogunate for itself. The “shadow lord” is Lord Hikiji who was based upon Date Masamune who had tried to set himself up as Shogun (military dictator). One interesting historical note is that Masamune was the first lord to send emissaries to a foreign country: a contingent of samurai went to the Vatican by way of Mexico. The travels took a year. They made it into the room adjoining the papal chambers where the pope refused to see them. They turned around and went home, their mission a failure.
