Netsuké

First Published: FIXME The Comics Magazine Issue 97

• Miyamoto Usagi

This three-page story opens with Usagi greeting someone out of frame.

Seen in flashback, Usagi recounts their first meeting together many years past resting at a military encampment after the first day of fighting at the battle of the burning plain. It turns out the man Usagi is speaking to was an ashigaru (foot soldier), whom Usagi noticed carving ornaments called netsuke. The soldier, Ogawa, had just finished carving a tortoise as a good luck charm to protect him in battle, and Usagi asked to take a look at it. As Usagi examined the luck charm, enemy forces attacked, and Usagi was not able to return the charm to Ogawa.

Finally, Usagi explains that is the reason for his visit, to return the luck charm, and we see he is speaking to Ogawa's grave. He leaves the charm on top of the grave marker, bows, and departs.

Last change: 19. May 2003

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