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Sano Ichiro

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Sano Ichiro	comment	Sano IchirÅ� is a dedicated and honorable Samurai from humble origins who has risen to become the Shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People. Throughout his time in the Shogun's court, he has to solve various mysteries and navigate the tricky intricacies of the government that he's now part of. Both issues are compounded by the weak-willed Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and his manipulative Chamberlain, Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the latter of whom views Sano as a threat to his own considerable power. Because of his status, each of the mysteries Sano has to solve link to some type of court intrigue, usually high-ranking members or relatives of the shogun, and Sano often finds his reputation- if not his life- on the line if he fails in solving them.Sano has allies of his own, however. Most notable are his wife Reiko, a keen Amateur Sleuth and martial artist who uses her high status to find clues within the social circles of women and other places Sano cannot go without attracting notice; Hirata, Sano's loyal retainer who has developed special martial arts techniques to help him in his work, and Dr. Ito, a doctor "exiled" to Edo Jail with an interest in forbidden western medicine.Sano IchirÅ� is a series of mystery novels by Laura Joh Rowland set in 17th century Japan. While Sano and his family and friends are fictional, many of the characters, particularly the Shogun and members of his court, are based on real people, though Rowland does deviate from historical fact later in the series in the interest of plot. Some of the cases deal with supernatural or legendary elements as well, including ghosts and mystical powers. Court debauchery abounds as well, with courtesans and fetishes playing a large role in many mysteries.The series includes the following titles: ShinjÅ« (1994) Bundori (1996) The Way of the Traitor (1997) The Concubine's Tattoo (1998) The Samurai's Wife (2000) Black Lotus (2001) The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria (2002) The Dragon King's Palace (2003) The Perfumed Sleeve (2004) The Assassin's Touch (2005) Red Chrysanthemum (2006) The Snow Empress (2007) The Fire Kimono (2008) The Cloud Pavilion (2009) The RÅ�nin's Mistress (2011) The Incense Game (2012) The Shogun's Daughter (2013) The Iris Fan (2014)As this is a mystery series, solutions to the mysteries themselves will be hidden, but as much of the plot revolves around the politics of the court itself, those points will not. So, fair warning, major spoilers below.
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Sano Ichiro / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Sano Ichiro / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Minor characters die frequently and some of the more prominent characters bite the dust, either as a murder victim that drives the plot of a particular novel or just as a side effect of getting in Sano's way.
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Sano Ichiro / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Sano Ichiro / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Sano has a minor meltdown in The Pillow Book Of Lady Wisteria after one too many death threats in reward for loyalty and competence. After an audience with a Shogun sees him and his family threatened once again, Reiko finds him muttering angrily to himself in their garden, his rage growing to the point where he chops down some bushes in a fit of fury. In The Shogun's Daughter, Sano finds evidence of a crime, is falsely accused of committing said crime, and is then beaten to a pulp by the Shogun with said evidence in front of a full court. He is unable to lift a hand to defend himself for fear of reprisal. When Hirata next encounters Sano, Sano's aura is almost entirely black due to his hatred towards the Shogun.
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Sano Ichiro / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Sano Ichiro / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Downplayed with Dr. Ito; his use of forbidden Western medical techniques would have gotten him kicked out of society for good, but the Shogun decided to "lessen" his sentence to working at Edo Morgue instead. After a failed attempt at undermining Lord Matsudaira's power, the Shogun finds out about Yanagisawa's ploy and banishes him and his closest family members to Hachijo Island. Almost as soon as he's leaving, Yanagisawa is coming up with schemes for how he'll return to Edo and reclaim his title.
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Sano Ichiro / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Sano Ichiro / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Detectives Marume and Fukida are two of Sano's retainers, and are often seen with one another. They don't have their own subplots, their personalities aren't as well developed as the rest of the main cast, and they only appear whenever their assitance is needed.
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Sano Ichiro / int_1d906807	type	Playing Hard to Get
Sano Ichiro / int_1d906807	comment	Playing Hard to Get: When Midori asks Reiko for advice on how to get Hirata to pay attention to her again, Reiko basically tells to her to invoke this trope. It backfires pretty quickly; Midori tries too hard to act aloof and cold which just confuses Hirata at first. He quickly figures out what she's trying to do and is only amused by it.
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Sano Ichiro / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Sano Ichiro / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: "Nokogiri-biki" is the most severe form of execution available to the Shogun. This is when the guilty party's body is buried alive up to the neck. This leaves enough of the neck exposed so the head can be sawed off.
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Sano Ichiro / int_200c009a	type	Mook Lieutenant
Sano Ichiro / int_200c009a	comment	Mook Lieutenant: In The Samurai's Wife, a samurai man named Aisu is introduced as Yanagisawa's chief retainer. He lives through about half of the book before getting killed by the murderer who mistook Aisu for Sano.
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Sano Ichiro / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Sano Ichiro / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: Executed criminals will sometimes have their heads placed on a spike and put on display, to serve as a reminder to any potential criminals. The practice of "bundori" (featured in the novel of the same) is when a decapitated head is cleaned, made up, and mounted on a spike. These "trophies" were then given to the samurai's lord as a way of showing their loyalty and honor. This practice was permitted only during times of war, so you can imagine Sano's confusion when someone suddenly takes up this practice during peacetime.
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Sano Ichiro / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Sano Ichiro / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: While Sano always knew life at court was dangerous, years of the Shogun failing to show any appreciation whatsoever for Sano's loyalty gradually wears away at his idealism.
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Sano Ichiro / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
Sano Ichiro / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Sano and his son, Masahiro, are very similar in attitude with Masahiro adopting his father's philosophy towards honor. He even takes over Sano's post at the end of the series. Reiko and her daughter, Akiko, are both headstrong, willing to push the boundaries of what women aren't allowed to do, and enjoy solving mysteries. Yanagisawa and Yoshisato are both clever, handsome, and crave power, and even have similar postures and expressions. There is one key difference, though: Yoshisato desires power because he sees he can do good with it, unlike his father who simply wants to control everything and crush anyone who gets in his way.
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Sano Ichiro / int_267ce120	type	Dirty Old Man
Sano Ichiro / int_267ce120	comment	Dirty Old Man: The middle-aged Shogun prefers young boys to any of his concubines, and the first lover of the 31-year-old Yanagisawa that the audience is introduced to (who isn't the Shogun) is the preteen actor ShichisaburÅ�.
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Sano Ichiro / int_2737c505	type	Shoot the Dog
Sano Ichiro / int_2737c505	comment	Shoot the Dog: Sano generally forgoes torture, seeing it as both inhumane and an inefficient means to obtaining reliable testimony. However, every so often he will break this rule, usually when a suspect or witness tries his patience for too long.
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Sano Ichiro / int_27ec6351	type	Like Is, Like, a Comma
Sano Ichiro / int_27ec6351	comment	Like Is, Like, a Comma: Shogun Tsunayoshi uses "ahh" almost every time he speaks. It's a way of showing his indecisiveness, as he drops it whenever he becomes more assertive. This tic goes away entirely after Sano calls him out on his ineffectual and self-indulgent behavior.
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Sano Ichiro / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Sano Ichiro / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Many gay characters don't make it to the end of the series or even the book they're introduced in. In the cases of Tsunayoshi and Lady Keisho-in this can be forgiven as they're historical domain characters and their deaths accurately mirror when their real world counterparts died. Yanagisawa's death can likewise be excused: even though the living Yanagisawa died a few years later than the fictional one, the fictional Yanagisawa was the main antagonist of the series and there was no way Sano and him weren't going to end up fighting to the death at some point. The other gay characters don't really have these justifications, though.
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Sano Ichiro / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Sano Ichiro / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Detectives Marume and Fukida are two samurai who accompany Sano and his family for several novels. In The Incense Game, Fukida is one of the causalities of the 1703 earthquake.
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Sano Ichiro / int_2d364c81	type	Tomboy and Girly Girl
Sano Ichiro / int_2d364c81	comment	Tomboy and Girly Girl: Reiko is a samurai lady who prefers adventure and Midori is a woman who prefers being a housewife.
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Sano Ichiro / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Sano Ichiro / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: The lack of a direct heir to the Tokugawa line spurs most of the political plotting as factions compete for the Shogun's favor. Sano seems to be the only person in Edo Castle who doesn't want this for Masahiro which, naturally, no one else believes. This dilemma pretty much becomes the focus of the last two books after the death of Tsuruhime, the Shogun's daughter, and an attack on the Shogun himself.
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Sano Ichiro / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Sano Ichiro / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: Sano always reminds Masahiro of honor and duty at home. He realizes how well his words and lessons have been taken to heart when the Shogun himself recites them back to him; after Masahiro became the Shogun's assistant, the two of them had gotten into a discussion during which Masahiro repeated Sano's words.
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Sano Ichiro / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Sano Ichiro / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: In the Black Lotus, both Sano and Reiko would like to see Hirata and Midori get married, but their class origins and Hirata's recently aquired arragonce makes the prospect difficult.
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Sano Ichiro / int_325a15f1	type	Rags to Royalty
Sano Ichiro / int_325a15f1	comment	Rags to Royalty: Lady Keisho-in started life as the daughter of a humble grocer. By being the concubine lucky enough to give birth to the previous Shogun's heir, she managed to rise above her commoner status. Those who encounter her often note that her lack of refined manners reveal her heritage.
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Sano Ichiro / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Sano Ichiro / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: The victim of The Perfurmed Sleeve, Senior Elder Makino, had a heart attack while participating in a threesome.
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Sano Ichiro / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Sano Ichiro / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Sano and Reiko are the series' main couple. Once they come to an understanding, they quickly fall for and become devoted to each other. Reiko also becomes one of Sano's main consultants and confidantes when it comes to brainstorming ideas and discussing evidence.
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Sano Ichiro / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Sano Ichiro / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: In The Shogun's Daughter, Yoshisato seemingly dies in a fire that consumes most of Yanagisawa's home. Ienobu had Yoshisato removed beforehand and placed a random peasant boy's corpse in his place. Then he had the house set on fire so as to render the body indistinguishable, and is keeping the living Yoshisato as a bargaining chip for Yanagisawa's help.
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Sano Ichiro / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Sano Ichiro / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Yanagisawa often arranges various traps so that, even if Sano finds the truth, it sets Sano back or causes him even more trouble. Thanks to Sano's persistence for justice, he almost always manages to subvert the Chamberlain's schemes or at least turn them to his advantage.
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Sano Ichiro / int_39e6c49e	type	Compulsive Liar
Sano Ichiro / int_39e6c49e	comment	Compulsive Liar: Haru, the primary suspect in Black Lotus, seems incapable of telling the truth, more often defaulting to lies and deceit in the hopes that it will earn her trust and divert suspicions. By the time she finally does opt to be honest, it's too little, too late.
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Sano Ichiro / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Sano Ichiro / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: Sano begins ignores societal conventions after he befriends Dr. Ito and uses the former physician's forbidden Western knowledge to find clues. As the series goes on and those behind the Shogun start making things more difficult for Sano to investigate directly, he has to flout his orders to find the truth, usually finding a loophole to remain in his master's good graces while he carefully stirs up trouble to find answers.
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Sano Ichiro / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Sano Ichiro / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: The Fire Kimono is partially about the Great Fire of Meireki, a massive inferno that wound up killing thousands. When Tokugawa Tadatoshi went missing during the disaster, it was assumed he was one of its victims. It isn't until over four decades later that his skeleton is found, and Dr. Ito finds evidence on his bones that indicates Tadatoshi was really stabbed to death. The main plot of the novel concerns itself with Sano's investigation into Tadatoshi's death. The plot of The Shogun's Daughter is kicked off when the Shogun's only direct decedent, his daughter Tsuruhime, dies presumably from smallpox. Lady Nobuko, however, suspects foulplay, and Sano's investigation ends up revealing that the infection was deliberate: Ienobu had Tsuruhime's bed rubbed down with a smallpox-infected blanket by Ukyo, a maid who'd already survived the disease. Tsuruhime's death ensured that Ienobu's precarious postion as the designated heir wouldn't be taken by any sons she might've had.
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Sano Ichiro / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Sano Ichiro / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: In The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria, the titular Lady Wisteria frames several former clients she has come to loathe. One of them includes Sano; she paints him as a cruel cheater who pretends to be a loving husband with a secret desire to take over the shogunate. Sano has to deal with the fallout from this false information falling into Reiko's hands and that of the Shogun.
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Sano Ichiro / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Sano Ichiro / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Chamberlain Yanagisawa knows exactly how to phrase things to his lord and lover to make himself look better than his competitors. It gets more and more impressive as the books go on; just when it seems Yanagisawa can't go any farther with stretching the truth, he somehow does. It culminates when he manages to pass off one of his own sons as the Shogun's long lost son and future Tokugawa heir.
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Sano Ichiro / int_40cad744	type	Flower Motifs
Sano Ichiro / int_40cad744	comment	Flower Motifs: The titular fan of The Iris Fan is a combat fan that was used to attack the Shogun. The fan bears an iris motif; irises symbolize boldness, courage, and power. Sano notes that these qualities could be associated with someone who made an assassination attempt on the leader of the country.
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Sano Ichiro / int_420e223e	type	Girl in the Tower
Sano Ichiro / int_420e223e	comment	Girl in the Tower: In The Dragon King's Palace, Reiko, Midori, Keisho-in, and Lady Yanagisawa are imprisoned in an abandoned tower as hostages. About halfway through the novel, Reiko manages to manipulate their kidnapper into giving them a higher quality room in a less decrepit building.
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Sano Ichiro / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Sano Ichiro / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: In The Incense Game, Detective Fukida is killed by the massive earthquake. Even though the earthquake is shown in the book, Fukida's death is not.
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Sano Ichiro / int_43273c71	type	LongRunner
Sano Ichiro / int_43273c71	comment	Long Runner: The Sano series has eighteen novels to its name, all of which were released over the course of 20 years.
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Sano Ichiro / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Sano Ichiro / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: One of Sano's defining character traits is his relentless pursuit of the truth regardless of the consequences. There are times where he'll put his own life or the lives of his family members in danger if it means catching a killer. The Iris Fan brings this aspect of his personality to the forefront; his search for evidence as to Ienobu's guilt winds up affecting his family's lives as well as the lives of his closest associates drastically. It's a major point of contention between him and Reiko, leading them to be at odds for a majority of the novel. Various samurai avert or subvert the trope: instead of doing the right thing, they instead follow selfish pursuits or ignore injustices, or they're more concerned about protecting their master's honor and will lie for them when telling the truth would be more beneficial in the long run. Sano has to deal with both types of people during each of his investigations.
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Sano Ichiro / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
Sano Ichiro / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: Midori screams during her efforts at giving birth to her first child, a daughter she and Hirata name Taeko.
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Sano Ichiro / int_4a32f262	type	Reassignment Backfire
Sano Ichiro / int_4a32f262	comment	Reassignment Backfire: Sano's trip to Deshima was supposed to get him out of Yanagisawa's way and destroy his miai. Instead, he comes back with more political power after forcing back some powerful enemies, improving his standing in the Shogun's eyes.
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Sano Ichiro / int_4e4290cb	type	Combat Hand Fan
Sano Ichiro / int_4e4290cb	comment	Combat Hand Fan: The titular weapon of The Iris Fan is an iron ribbed fan that was used in an attempt to stab the Shogun while he slept.
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Sano Ichiro / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Sano Ichiro / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Many of the usual features of a Sano Ichiro novel are not present in ShinjÅ«. The murder isn't wrapped up in any political intrigue tied to the bakufu, with the Shogun and his court being in the background for a majority of the book. Sano's worst antagonists are a self-serving magistrate and a couple arrogant coworkers instead of the conniving Chamberlain Yanagisawa. There's also more Japanese terms sprinkled throughout the first few novels, even when they aren't necessary. For example, Hirata had a tendency to say "sumimasen" ("Excuse me") when addressing Sano, even after officially becoming Sano's chief retainer.
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Sano Ichiro / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Sano Ichiro / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: There are many characters of both sexes that have rape as a part of their backstory. Since "manly love" among samurai was a common practice in this period of Japan, masters taking advantage of their students was sadly not uncommon. The trauma experienced from the assault often results in a motive for more power over others (as is the case for Yanagisawa) or, in extreme cases, murder (such as when Kira was murdered by his retainer for pimping out said retainer's son).
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Sano Ichiro / int_54c6b2b6	type	Revisiting the Cold Case
Sano Ichiro / int_54c6b2b6	comment	Revisiting the Cold Case: When the Shogun's cousin goes missing, a search party is sent out to find him, but a few months without any success leads people to believe he died in the fire. It isn't until four decades later that his skeleton is found, and Sano is tasked with finding out the truth behind his death.
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Sano Ichiro / int_5625538f	type	Stupidity-Inducing Attack
Sano Ichiro / int_5625538f	comment	Stupidity-Inducing Attack: The climax of The Iris Fan sees Hirata using his last ounce of energy to redirect a mental attack aimed at Sano. The attack hits Ienobu instead, causing considerable harm to his mind. Although Ienobu can still take care of his basic needs, the attack causes him to only be able to do something if Sano orders him to.
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Sano Ichiro / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Sano Ichiro / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: For the most part, the way of life depicted during Edo Period Japan is fairly accurate as are various other historical facts. However, there are times where Rowland strays from fact. Some specific examples: There is no evidence that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was ever attacked, nor is there any concrete evidence that he was homosexual. Tokogawa Ienobu wasn't rendered a simpleton by a mystical attack; he was a very intelligent man and a Confucian scholar. Additionally, rather than be threatened and hated by Lady Nobuko, Tsunayoshi's wife, she actually endorsed Ienobu to become the next Shogun when his eligibility came into question. Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and his family were never exiled, nor did he die in 1709 from being stabbed by a court rival; in reality, his death occurred in 1714 of unknown causes. Rowland acknowledges the second fact in The Iris Fan's author's notes.
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Sano Ichiro / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Sano Ichiro / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Hirata and Midori fall in love and later get married after Midori becomes pregnant. Hirata becomes Sano's chief retainer and Midori Reiko's primary friend. However, after Hirata goes off to train in the mystic martial arts, their marriage becomes rocky with Midori even coming to resent her husband. This provides a contrast to Sano and Reiko's more stable relationship.
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Sano Ichiro / int_5c5d0032	type	Eyepatch of Power
Sano Ichiro / int_5c5d0032	comment	Eyepatch of Power: Anraku is the High Priest of the Black Lotus and he wears an eyepatch over a blind eye. He claims that the blind eye gives him divine premonitions, and it's left ambiguous just how much of his alleged power is real or fake.
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Sano Ichiro / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Sano Ichiro / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Trials are rarely fair, placing an emphasis on expediency than actually meting out any real justice. Of the judges that appear in the series, only Reiko's father, Magistrate Ueda, is the one who actually cares about making an informed ruling. The others aren't troubled by the thought of potentially condemning innocents if it means staying within the Shogun's good graces.
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Sano Ichiro / int_5ee2f7cc	type	My Secret Pregnancy
Sano Ichiro / int_5ee2f7cc	comment	My Secret Pregnancy: Shortly after Hirata and Midori become a couple, Midori becomes pregnant. She tells no one about it expect Hirata, and even then it's only so she can explain exactly why they need to be married and fast. Much later on, her daughter, Taeko, follows in her footsteps when she becomes pregnant with Masahiro's child and says nothing until after she and Masahiro become engaged.
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Sano Ichiro / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Sano Ichiro / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Time skips between novels are frequent. Sometimes the amount time is only a couple months, others a couple years. The largest skip happens between The Shogun's Daughter and The Iris Fan: five years have passed between the events of the former and the beginning of the latter.
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Sano Ichiro / int_5ff30573	type	Long Game
Sano Ichiro / int_5ff30573	comment	Long Game: The 47 ronin enact their plan to get their revenge against Kira over a year after the dissolution of Asano's house. Part of Sano's investigation is answering why it took them so long to get their vengance.
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Sano Ichiro / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Sano Ichiro / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: Yugao, one of the suspects in The Assassin's Touch, was sexually abused by her father for years before he moved on to her younger sister. Their mother didn't do anything to stop the abuse, and his abuse led directly to their whole family becoming social outcasts.
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Sano Ichiro / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Sano Ichiro / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: In The Perfumed Sleeve, Hirata saves Sano from a potentially fatal sword strike. While Hirata doesn't die, he does develop a permanent limp. In The Iris Fan, Hirata fights against the ghost possessing him in order to keep the ghost from using his body to kill Sano. The fight strains Hirata's body so much, it literally snaps his spine. Needless to say, Hirata doesn't live for very long afterward.
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Sano Ichiro / int_65cd1b5e	type	Acid Pool
Sano Ichiro / int_65cd1b5e	comment	Acid Pool: In Red Chrysanthemum, Hoshina tries to murder Sano while Sano is in a pool of lye. Sano takes advantage of the pool by pretending to drown, which gets both Hoshina off guard and himself the advantage of surprise.
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Sano Ichiro / int_663b22d9	type	Dying as Yourself
Sano Ichiro / int_663b22d9	comment	Dying as Yourself: During his final battle, Hirata sacrifices his body in order to keep General Otani from killing Sano. This forces the ghost away for good. Although broken and dying, he's relieved that he's no longer possessed and allowed to be himself as he passes away.
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Sano Ichiro / int_67c0ef1a	type	Hidden Backup Prince
Sano Ichiro / int_67c0ef1a	comment	Hidden Backup Prince: Invoked: after Yoritomo's death, Yanagisawa presents one of his other sons, Yoshisato, to the Shogun. He claims that Yoshisato is actually Tsunayoshi's secret son, and that he was raised by the Chamberlain to keep the Tokugawa line safe from its enemies. Sano, among many others, don't buy it for a second, but the Shogun is so happy that he has a "son" that it blinds him to any holes in Yanagisawa's story.
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Sano Ichiro / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
Sano Ichiro / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: After Sano refuses to stop investigating Ienobu, the Shogun takes away Sano's rank and bans him from court.
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Sano Ichiro / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
Sano Ichiro / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: After he's severely injured in The Perfumed Sleeve, Hirata starts down a dark path that sorely tests his previously honorable, good-natured character. It begins when he decides to embark on mystical martial arts training to compensate for his new disability. He's forced to leave his wife and children for months at a time, which foments major resentment in Midori. He eventually falls in with a group of mystical conspirators that want use their skills to altar the course of Japan. When Hirata threatens to leave after realizing they intend to destroy the Tokugawa shogunate, they threaten to kill Sano. Their superior skills force him to protect said master by keeping quiet about what is going on and remain under their control, infuriating Sano and making it impossible for Sano to stick up for his retainer. Hirata tries to take down the conspirators, but they beat Hirata nearly to death and force him to become a host to a vengeful ghost general. After killing off the conspirators, the general forces Hirata to murder and steal for Ienobu over the course of five years, never letting him go home. This eventually forces Sano to label Hirata a traitor, which turns both him and his family into outcasts, leading Midori to develop a deep hatred for Hirata. When Hirata finally appears in the final battle at the palace, the general tries to make him kill his long time friend and master to prevent his plans from being stopped. Hirata fights back so hard against the ghost's control that his bones, tendons, nerves, and even his own spine get broken from the strain. Although Hirata manages one last mental attack on Ienobu to thwart the general's plans for good, the severe injuries he sustained are too much for him to ever recover from. He dies in Midori's arms a few hours later.
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Sano Ichiro / int_7204fa60	type	George Jetson Job Security
Sano Ichiro / int_7204fa60	comment	George Jetson Job Security: Staying within the bakufu is no easy feat, even for those who've been in it for a long time. The Shogun is fickle and easily changes his mind; you can be demoted, exiled, or executed for little to no reason, with your loved ones and close associates potentially sharing your punishment. How long you've worked for him or how well you've done your job has no effect on the Shogun's decisions.
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Sano Ichiro / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Sano Ichiro / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Yanagisawa and Hoshina are not present during the investigation of the Black Lotus case, as they are on a tour of inspection. Senior Elder Makino takes their place as Sano's main detractor.
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Sano Ichiro / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Sano Ichiro / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: In Black Lotus, Haru tries to convince Reiko to get Sano to call off the siege on the Black Lotus's temple, saying that they are the third sign Anraku has foretold. By this point, Reiko is completely done with Haru, thinking this is just another means of manipulation. It is anything but, as soon after Sano and the Tokugawa soldiers arrive, a swarm of novices, priests, and nuns exit the temple to attack the soldiers or speed past them to wreak havoc on the nearby town.
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Sano Ichiro / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Sano Ichiro / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Towards the end of The Shogun's Daughter, Sano not only calls the Shogun by name, he chews him out for his childishness, irresponsible ways, and passive-aggressive behavior, additionally calling him a coward unworthy of bearing the Tokugawa name. Much to his, and everyone else's absolute shock, Tsunayoshi agrees with him.
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Sano Ichiro / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Sano Ichiro / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: It can be easy to spot which witnesses/murder suspects are going to be bumped off soon if they get a chapter that shows their background and motivations. They're usually murdered by the end of their chapter or, if they're lucky, towards the end of the book in which they're introduced.
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Sano Ichiro / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
Sano Ichiro / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Arranged marriages are standard practice, particularly within the nobility. One aspect of this tradition is the "miai", a meeting between two families so each member can better access the prospective spouse's character. Sano's search for a wife is a minor plot point in Bundori, and his miai is where Reiko was first introduced.
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Sano Ichiro / int_80818684	type	Sleeping Their Way to the Top
Sano Ichiro / int_80818684	comment	Sleeping Their Way to the Top: While most government positions are obtained through birth, some ambitious samurai will circumvent this system by sleeping with their superiors. Yanagisawa is a promenent example, as he got the job of Chamberlain by becoming the Shogun's lover and confidante. He encourages his son, Yoritomo, to employ this method in an attempt to have him declared as next-in-line to the Shogun.
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Sano Ichiro / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Sano Ichiro / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Both Sano and Reiko turn out to be right about the Black Lotus case, though the actual facts were either obfuscated or hidden. While Haru did kill the Commander, she did it in self-defense and hadn't even intended to kill him outright. She also didn't murder her husband via arson: it was an accident that she took advantage of so she could escape his abuse. The Black Lotus are indeed just as devious and dangerous as the public think them to be, even more so than anybody could have imagined.
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Sano Ichiro / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Sano Ichiro / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Lady Yanagisawa envies Reiko's beauty, loving husband, and healthy son, all of which contrasts sharply with her own unattractive appearance, aloof husband, and mentally challenged daughter. Believing there to be a minimum amount of luck in the world, Lady Yanagisawa both wants to be friends with Reiko and destroy her/her family in the hopes that she herself might absorb some of Reiko's good fortune by proxy. Reiko profoundly doesn't want to be around Lady Yanagisawa, but due to court politics and not wanting to draw the woman's ire, Reiko keeps up the facade of a friendship while simultaneously keeping her guard up whenever Lady Yanagisawa or her obedient daughter are around.
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Sano Ichiro / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Sano Ichiro / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Lieutenant Kushida developed an obsession with Harume shortly after she entered Edo Castle, making him a primary suspect in her murder.
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Sano Ichiro / int_8ca9bf12	type	Sex Equals Love
Sano Ichiro / int_8ca9bf12	comment	Sex Equals Love: Lady Yanagisawa desperately holds to the belief that her husband having sex with her as a reward in The Perfumed Sleeve is proof that he does, in fact, care about her. When Lady Yanagisawa tries to explain to Reiko that Yanagisawa loves her, Reiko mocks her for thinking that lust and love are the same thing.
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Sano Ichiro / int_8cb4ea46	type	By-the-Book Cop
Sano Ichiro / int_8cb4ea46	comment	By-the-Book Cop: Sano starts out by following the rules of Bushido strictly and always honoring his superior's wishes. This does not last long, since other samurai (especially Yanagisawa) aren't as willing to play by those rules.
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Sano Ichiro / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
Sano Ichiro / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: The Concubine's Tattoo has Lord and Lady Miyagi, a couple who are blood-cousins in a marriage of convenience because no one would marry into the family. One of the murder suspects in The Iris Fan is a little too close to her cousin for it to be just familial.
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Sano Ichiro / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Sano Ichiro / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: In The Shogun's Daughter, General Otani, the ghost of a vengeful samurai, takes over Hirata's body with help from the other members of the mystical fellowship. While Hirata does maintain some control over his body, the General can easily take that control away from him, forcing Hirata to do as he says.
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Sano Ichiro / int_90a76abb	type	Non-Promotion
Sano Ichiro / int_90a76abb	comment	Non-Promotion: Before Yanagisawa's exile, the Shogun gave Sano more work and relied on him more in governing Japan, but neither promoted him nor gave him much credit.
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Sano Ichiro / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Sano Ichiro / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: General Otani is a vengeful ghost who needed the other members of the fellowship because they were the only ones who could provide him with a host. Once he's possessed Hirata's body, Otani uses his newfound physicallity to murder the rest of the fellowship within seconds.
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Sano Ichiro / int_952d21ec	type	Bus Crash
Sano Ichiro / int_952d21ec	comment	Bus Crash: The Shogun's mother, Lady Keisho-in, dies in the five year gap between The Shogun's Daughter and The Iris Fan.
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Sano Ichiro / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Sano Ichiro / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: After all of his careful scheming and planning, Yanagisawa loses it when it's revealed that Sano's voice is the only one that recently rendered mentally disabled Ienobu will obey. This proves to be one too many times that Sano has interfered and won for Yanagisawa snaps and attacks Sano.
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Sano Ichiro / int_963c6133	type	Promiscuity After Rape
Sano Ichiro / int_963c6133	comment	Promiscuity After Rape: Several characters who were raped in their past are very promiscious in the present: Yanagasiwa, Haru, and Yugao are just a couple of examples.
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Sano Ichiro / int_97a383e7	type	Interdisciplinary Sleuth
Sano Ichiro / int_97a383e7	comment	Interdisciplinary Sleuth: Sano and most of his circle of investigators are also samurai who have trained in some form of fighting art. Sano himself was a tutor and historian before becoming the Shogun's investigator. This background helps him hunt down evidence and witnesses during the various cases he's given.
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Sano Ichiro / int_98a121e7	type	RashomonPlot
Sano Ichiro / int_98a121e7	comment	Rashomon Plot: The first half of Red Chrysanthemum has chapters where each of the suspects tells their own version of how Reiko ended up in Lord Mori's chamber. Unsurprisingly, none of their stories exactly match up with one another's: Reiko's tale explains how she came to be in the Mori estate, but not how she got into the state she was in when Sano found her; Lady Mori paints Reiko as some two-timing seductress who killed Lord Mori in cold blood; Lady Mori's son describes Reiko as a blackmailer who was doing Sano's bidding, and so forth.
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Sano Ichiro / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Sano Ichiro / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: In The Concubine's Tattoo, Ito's autopsy reveals that the concubine Harume died while carrying a child. Lady Mori thought it was her husband's, leading her to poison Harume out of jealousy. The baby was actually Danzaemon's, the eta headman. In The Shogun's Daughter, it's revealed after Tsuruhime's death that she might have been pregnant with a potential Tokugawa heir. Tsuruhime's husband hated her, and she was having an affair with another samurai.
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Sano Ichiro / int_99828ce6	type	Nature Hero
Sano Ichiro / int_99828ce6	comment	Nature Hero: During his time in Ezogashima, Hirata learns how to sense the natural aura of the world around him. This new insight helps in future cases.
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Sano Ichiro / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Sano Ichiro / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: The bakufu traditionally displays the dead bodies of executed criminals with a sign stating the crime they were punished for. This is an attempt to remind would-be lawbreakers what their fate will be should they get caught.
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Sano Ichiro / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Sano Ichiro / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: Various witnesses and suspects get at least one chapter where their backstory and motivations are explained. In Shinju, the maid O-hana gets a chapter explaining her background and detailing her attempt to leave the Mori estate in order to keep her appointment with Sano. The chapter ends with O-hana being murdered. In The Incense Game, Minister Ogyu's chapter shows that he was raised by a harsh mother who impressed upon him the need to get into the Shogun's good graces.
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Sano Ichiro / int_9df1477	type	The Exotic Detective
Sano Ichiro / int_9df1477	comment	The Exotic Detective: Sano IchirÅ� is a samurai who lives in Edo-era Japan, a time period in which detectives (as we know them) didn't really exist. As such he's given the the equally exotic title of the Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People when he starts working for the Shogun.
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Sano Ichiro / int_9ed6761e	type	Death by Woman Scorned
Sano Ichiro / int_9ed6761e	comment	Death by Woman Scorned: Lady Mori, with the help of a maid, kills her husband for raping her son when he was a child. Framing Reiko for the murder was an oppertunity that Lady Mori took advantage of.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a11f8240	type	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
Sano Ichiro / int_a11f8240	comment	Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Edo's police aren't exactly known for putting justice and honor before self-interest, and many would rather their underlings handle the dirty work of policing while they lay back and reap the rewards. Sano manages to clean things up somewhat as his position within the bakufu rises, but most of the truly honest investigators remain within his inner circle.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Sano Ichiro / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Matsudaira Mitsuyoshi was Lord Matsudaira's son and heir to the Shogun. He is the murder victim of The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria, is death caused via a hairpin through the eye.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Sano Ichiro / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Sano and Reiko are concerned more about raising their children with morality and honor than using them as political pawns. Reiko's father, Magistrate Ueda, had a more active hand in raising Reiko than the average samurai, even giving her the education usually reserved for sons after seeing how intelligent she was.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Sano Ichiro / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Thanks to the Shogun largely letting his underlings run the country for him, those with evil or less-than-altrustic intentions often vie to be his right-hand man. Chamberlain Yanagisawa is the main one; his knowledge about his lord's temperament means he can easily manipulate the Shogun with mere words alone, and uses those words to constantly undermine Sano and other officials to maintain his power. After Yanagisawa gets sent into exile, Lord Matsudaira takes on this role and maintains the position for a few books until Yanagisawa returns, leading him to commit seppuku. Once Ienobu gets introduced, both he and Yanagisawa fight for this role.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a5398aba	type	Authority in Name Only
Sano Ichiro / int_a5398aba	comment	Authority in Name Only: In The Iris Fan, Ienobu suffers severe brain damage due to Hirata's mental attack. This results in Ienobu becoming a simpleton who, while able to take care of his own basic needs, can only answer Sano's commands.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
Sano Ichiro / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: A lot of characters have parents that ignored them or are parents that don't pay attention to their child(ren). Yanagisawa ignores all of his children except for Yoritomo and, later, Yoshisato. This includes his only legitimate offspring, Kikuko, in part because she is a girl and in part because she is mentally challenged.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Sano Ichiro / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Midori first appeared in Shinju as a thirteen-year-old girl who just so happened to be a younger sister to one of the murder victims. She turns into a recurring character after she becomes Reiko's friend and gets romantically involved with Hirata.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Sano Ichiro / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: As the Shinto religion treats death very seriously, most of the murder victims get proper funerals. (Ironically, Tsunayoshi gets no such due: his body is hastily burned in order to prevent the measles he had from spreading.)
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Sano Ichiro / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Sano Ichiro / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: In The Iris Fan, Hirata lives long enough for his family to be by his side when he dies. After Midori forgives him for leaving them, he dies in her arms, remembering the love he always had for her.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Sano Ichiro / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Downplayed. Once Sano becomes sosakan, a status quo is established that includes Sano having to solve a politically charged mystery with Yanagisawa using the investigation to either take down Sano and/or further his own power. That doesn't mean things stay stagnant, though: Sano gets married to Reiko, who becomes an important asset to his investigations. Together they have two children, both of whom eventually help solve cases in some way. Sano's position within the court changes multiple times over the course of the series, as does Hirata's. Hirata himself has his own personal struggles regarding his duty to Sano and his family. His situation also changes considerably throughout the series: originally a doshin, he becomes Sano's chief retainer after assisting him in the Bundori case. He then gets married to Midori and becomes sosakan after Sano's own promotion to Chamberlain. Then Hirata gets gravely injured which gives him a limp, leading him to turn to mystic martial arts in order to compensate.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Sano Ichiro / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Haru of Black Lotus makes several failed attempts to play dumb after becoming an arson suspect.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
Sano Ichiro / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: After a hideously abusive childhood, all that matters to Yanagisawa is power, but that drive wars with his deep-rooted need to be loved. A handful of times during the series, he's presented with a choice between true love and maintaining his position. Since his power is all that protects him from the legions of enemies he's made during his rise to the top, Yanagisawa can't ever contemplate giving up even a slice of it. As such, he'll always send his love interest away to banishment or death.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Sano Ichiro / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Minister Ogyu was born female but raised as male by a family that had desperately hoped for a son. It's the threat of being exposed as a fraud that leds her to murder.
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Sano Ichiro / int_a8a9d045	type	Super-Scream
Sano Ichiro / int_a8a9d045	comment	Super-Scream: The murder method used in The Samurai's Wife is known as kiai, a type of deadly cry that causes massive hemorrhaging to anyone in its path. It's achieved through controlled breathing techniques and tightly managed concentration.
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Sano Ichiro / int_ab7a377	type	Trial by Ordeal
Sano Ichiro / int_ab7a377	comment	Trial by Ordeal: In The Snow Empress, Cheiftan Awetok offers a traditional Ainu trial in order to figure out who murdered Tekare. Upon being presented with a pot of boiling water, the accused plunges one of their hands into the pot. If the accused's hand remains unscathed, its because the spirit of the victim recognized their innocence and protected them. If the accused's hand gets scalded, they're guilty. Both Awetok and Urahenka go through the trail and neither of them are harmed. Daigoro posits that they used some type of native potion to prevent them from getting hurt, but Sano can't imagine any type of balm doing what he suggests. Turns out that neither Awetok nor Urahenka commited the crime, suggesting that the trail was completely legitimate.
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Sano Ichiro / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Sano Ichiro / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: In The Iris Fan, Akiko's skill with handling dogs saves Reiko from a potential attack by those dogs and helps the both of them find a clue via the dog's tracking skills.
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Sano Ichiro / int_ae422bac	type	Fake Kill Scare
Sano Ichiro / int_ae422bac	comment	Fake Kill Scare: During Yanagisawa and Sano's raid of Edo castle in The Iris Fan, Marume is severely injured but remains behind to hold off their enemies long enough for Sano to make his way to the palace. Marume goes down in the wave of fighters and disappears. Sano is upset at losing such a loyal man, but forces himself to continue on as the fate of Japan is at stake. After the climax, it's revealed that Marume was knocked unconscious in the fight, was found by Reiko, and sent to Lord Mori's estate to be tended to.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b00115aa	type	Noble Fugitive
Sano Ichiro / int_b00115aa	comment	Noble Fugitive: Yanagisawa pretends to be a monk after escaping from exile and planning his return. After being kidnapped by Ienobu's men, Yoshisato escapes them and pretends to be a gangster, even becoming the leader of a gang.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Sano Ichiro / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: There are many times where a character wishes for or wants something, only for that desire to be granted in a way that's detrimental to them: Yanagisawa's parents took advantage of his youthful good looks by openly pimping him to high court officials, hoping he'd eventually work his way to a position of influence. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams when their son became the lover and favorite of the Shogun. Yanagisawa then took great pleasure in using his newfound power to banish his parents to a miserable estate in the middle of Japan's most rural province. Every year they write their son letters, begging for a reprieve, and he takes even greater pleasure in tossing them into the trash, unanswered. Hirata had a master before Sano, but that master was killed due to the incompentance of Hirata and a few of his collegues. Since then, Hirata has wanted to atone for his past mistake by sacrificing his life in order to save a new master. This desire is compounded post-The Dragon King's Palace when Hirata decides to disobey one of Sano's orders in favor of trying to rescue his pregnant wife, Midori, from an island. Come The Perfumed Sleeve, he does end up saving Sano from a potentially fatal sword strike, but instead of the heroic sacrifice Hirata wanted, the sword ends up slicing into his thigh. Hirata manages to survive the attack, but the wound makes him weaker and gives him a permament limp. A minor example happens at the beginning of The Dragon King's Palace: Reiko is pressured into a pilgrimage with Lady Keisho-in, Lady Yanagisawa, and Midori to Mount Fuji, an already long trip made even longer due to Keisho-in forcing her entourage to stop at various locations along the way. She hopes for something to cut their voyage short... which gets granted soon afterward when their entourage is ambushed and slaughtered, and she and her companions are kidnapped and held hostage.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Sano Ichiro / int_b0a529cb	comment	In The Iris Fan, during the meeting in the aftermath of the Shogun's death, there is concern that Sano is the only one who can control the words and actions of the new shogun, Ienobu. One of the Senior Elders protests that they can't have a Shogun that can't think for himself. A guilty silence shortly follows as everyone remembers how much of an Extreme Doormat Tsunayoshi was.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Sano Ichiro / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: It's common for parents to view their kids as nothing more than political pawns to be used in order to gain higher social standing. As such, they'll often abuse their children either emotionally, mentally, physically, or some combination of the three so as to control them and/or mold them into someone who can achieve a highly lauded position.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
Sano Ichiro / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: The primary suspect of Black Lotus, Haru, was married off to a much older man who raped her.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Sano Ichiro / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: In The Cloud Pavilion, the Shogun's dog keeper hides behind his attack dogs when Sano goes to investigate him. Sano can't kill the canines or else he will violate the Shogun's law on harming dogs. Sano comes back later with dogs of his own and sets them loose to fight the keeper's animals. After all, the law says nothing about dogs attacking other dogs.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Sano Ichiro / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: One minor subplot is the question of who the next Shogun will be. Since Shogun Tsunayoshi prefers boys and his daughter is tokophobic, it's highly unlikely that a direct heir will ever come about. The Shogun's weak constitution and growing age causes concerns that, should he die suddenly, a power struggle will erupt. To this end, almost everyone close to the Shogun tries to offer up their own sons or favored male family members as potential candidates.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b3dbc942	type	Sequel
Sano Ichiro / int_b3dbc942	comment	Sequel: While the murder and murderer of The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria weren't part of the previous book, the affect the Black Lotus case had on the main cast clearly shows: Sano's temper is quick to kindle due to the mental and emotional turmoil that formed after the raid on the sect's temple, Reiko doubts her deductive abilities and intuition due to backing a suspect that ultimately proved to be a manipulator and murderer, and their marriage rests in a state of fragile equilibrium because they were on opposing sides, which fomented bad blood between them. Additionally, some loose ends are tied up regarding just how the Black Lotus was able to exist for so long without reprisal: several influential members of the bakufu were Black Lotus followers, meaning they were able to cover up the sect's doings from people who might have done something about it.
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Sano Ichiro / int_b3fda903	type	Touch of Death
Sano Ichiro / int_b3fda903	comment	Touch of Death: Dim-mak is a martial art techinque that involves touching someone at a specific point of the body. At least two days later, the victim will die of a burst blood vessel in their brain. This is the main murder method of the Ghost, the antagonist of The Assassin's Touch.
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Sano Ichiro / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Sano Ichiro / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: After her husband dies, Lady Nobuko has to choose between killing either Yanagisawa or Ienobu and letting the survivor take over the mantle of Shogun. There's just one problem: she has ample reason to murder both of them. Yanagisawa had her kidnapped and raped in order to discredit his rival and Ienobu arranged the death of her only child. Unable to decide who she hates more, Lady Nobuko snaps.
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Sano Ichiro / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Sano Ichiro / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Sano has been framed for murder a couple times. Each time, the threat of death to him and/or his family members makes him all the more desperate to see the true killer brought to light.
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Sano Ichiro / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Sano Ichiro / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: In ShinjÅ«, the bodies of a peasant man and a young samurai woman are written off as yet another story of two star-crossed lovers committing a double love suicide so they could at least be together in death. It isn't until Sano probes further into their deaths that he finds out that they were murdered by Lady Niu in an effort to protect her son. Said son is plotting to murder the shogun. In The Samurai's Wife, Sano's investigation of the imperial Left Minister's death eventually reveals a plot to overthrow the Tokugawa government and reinstate the emperor as ruler of Japan.
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Sano Ichiro / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Sano Ichiro / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Sano and Reiko genuinely care for and love each other. Their camaraderie has helped Sano's investigations more than once. While their marriage becomes strained at various points throughout the series, their love usually pulls through. Subverted with Hirata and Midori; their relationship started out lovingly enough with the two of them actually marrying for love in defiance of tradition. However, Hirata going off for weeks or months at time for his martial arts training put a strain on their marriage. Midori came to view his absences as her husband choosing his personal interests over raising his children. Their relationship never truly recovers and it's only on Hirata's deathbed that Midori truly forgives him.
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Sano Ichiro / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Sano Ichiro / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Sano and Hirata invoke the dynamic of a pleasant and affable detective and his aggressive partner if both of them are present during an interrogation. Who takes which role depends on the suspect.
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Sano Ichiro / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Sano Ichiro / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: In The Concubine's Tattoo, during Hirata's last meeting with Ichiteru, she slips a powerful aphrodisiac into his drink and has sex with him. Hirata tells her to stop at least twice, but she ignores him. Ichiteru doesn't get punished for this in-story and the narrative doesn't treat what she did as rape; while she does get sent back to Miyako in the end, that's only because the castle staff was making room for younger courtesans and Ichiteru was going to be on her way out soon anyway to due her age.
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Sano Ichiro / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Sano Ichiro / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In The Concubine's Tattoo, Reiko- a firm believer in the power of women- completely ignores the various hints and broken alibis that implicate Lady Miyagi. Instead, she brushes this suspect off as their lord's insignificant shadow and believes the lord to be the murderer due to his obsession with death and defilement. When the suspect confesses to killing Harume, Reiko notes how social mores blinded both Sano and herself. In The Iris Fan, during the meeting in the aftermath of the Shogun's death, there is concern that Sano is the only one who can control the words and actions of the new shogun, Ienobu. One of the Senior Elders protests that they can't have a Shogun that can't think for himself. A guilty silence shortly follows as everyone remembers how much of an Extreme Doormat Tsunayoshi was. In the end, Sano ends up having sole and absolute control over the new Shogun, allowing him to basically rule Japan in all but name. Bear in mind, Snao was one of a small group of people who genuinely had no interest in ruling Japan, and he spent a lot of his time struggling just to stay in court, keep his reputation intact, and his family alive and safe.
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Sano Ichiro / int_c37813c5	type	Ninja
Sano Ichiro / int_c37813c5	comment	Ninja: In Bundori, Aoi is a ninja who works for Yanagisawa. She supplies him information as well as manipulating his enemies.
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Sano Ichiro / int_c3b32bf1	type	Rōnin
Sano Ichiro / int_c3b32bf1	comment	Rōnin: Sano is the son of a rÅ�nin and, by extension, was one himself before becoming a yoriki. The RÅ�nin's Mistress deals with the legend of The 47 Ronin, a group of samurai who get revenge on their late master's rival, believing him to have a hand in the death of said master.
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Sano Ichiro / int_c78d3e08	type	Seppuku
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Sano Ichiro / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Sano Ichiro / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: In The Concubine's Tattoo, Sano is desperately looking for his wife, Reiko, who is in the presense of the murderer without realizing it. When Sano stumbles across a pair of slaughtered concubines, he mistakes them for Reiko at first. Sano starts acting mildly hysterical out of relief when he sees that they aren't. It takes Hirata slapping Sano to bring Sano back to sanity.
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Sano Ichiro / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
Sano Ichiro / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: The Shogun's court in Edo and the Emperor's court in Kyoto are both dangerous places for those who aren't politically savvy, and even for those who are half the time. Rivalry abounds, assassinations aren't unheard of, and debauchery is par for the course for most of the staff. The only difference between the two courts is that the latter doesn't have any real power over how the country is ruled.
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Sano Ichiro / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Sano Ichiro / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The story is set in real world Edo-era Japan, but there are several instances where vaguely supernatural things happen. The "maybe mundane" part gets blurrier and blurrier as the series goes on until the spirit of a murder victim possess her lover. Hirata himself gets possessed by a vengeful ghost who forces him to do its bidding.
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Sano Ichiro / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
Sano Ichiro / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: With each progressive entry, the crimes and court politics get more intense, culminating in an attack on the Shogun himself.
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Sano Ichiro / int_d0caee40	type	Uncanny Family Resemblance
Sano Ichiro / int_d0caee40	comment	Uncanny Family Resemblance: Reiko looks almost exactly like her grandmother and even shares her grandmother's stubbornness and sharp-tongue.
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Sano Ichiro / int_d104235d	type	Fair-Play Whodunnit
Sano Ichiro / int_d104235d	comment	Fair-Play Whodunnit: Each mystery can be solved alongside Sano. Clues are laid out clearly, some of them even before the detectives find them, and the murderer is usually a character the audience has been introduced to.
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Sano Ichiro / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Sano Ichiro / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Sano calling the Shogun out to his face all of his weakness and flaws should've gotten him and possibly his family in deep trouble, but because the Shogun actually agrees with his critisms, he manages to get away with it.
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Sano Ichiro / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Sano Ichiro / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Sano starts out the series as a teacher turned yoriki. After saving the Shogun's life, he becomes Shogun Tsunayoshi's top detective. Following Yanagisawa's exile, Sano gets his biggest promotion when he's made Chamberlain. He gets kicked back downstairs after Yanagisawa arranges for Lady Nobuko to be raped and the Shogun demotes Sano for failing to save his wife. Then he gets kicked back up again after Yanagisawa refuses to leave his home while mourning the death of one of his sons. After he refuses to give up on finding evidence that will show that Ienobu had a hand in the death of the Shogun's only daughter, Sano is kicked way down the bakufu ladder. Then up yet again after Tsunayoshi reinstates Sano to find out who attacked him. By the end of the series, Sano becomes shogun-by-proxy when his voice is the only one that Ienobu will obey.
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Sano Ichiro / int_daa59ba1	type	Puppy Love
Sano Ichiro / int_daa59ba1	comment	Puppy Love: Taeko develops a huge crush on Masahiro when she's seven. He doesn't feel the same way at first, seeing her as just a playmate. After saving his life at the end of The Shogun's Daugter, Masahiro starts to develop feelings for her.
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Sano Ichiro / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Sano Ichiro / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Dr. Miwa is both the Black Lotus sect's chief physician and their torturer. His background in medicine aids in his research of poisons.
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Sano Ichiro / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
Sano Ichiro / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: Most, if not all, executions are veiwable to the public, the intent being to use the convicted persons as an example of any potential criminals their own fate. This becomes a plot point towards the end of The Fire Kimono wherein Sano stages Yoritomo's execution, using Yanagisawa's love for his son as a means to draw Yanagisawa out from hiding.
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Sano Ichiro / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Due to corruption being rampant within the bakufu, its extrememly rare to find an authority figure who's sense of justice doesn't boil down to "whatever will keep me in the Shogun's good graces." About the only people with any political weight who uses their position for actual good are the main protagonists and Magistrate Ueda, Reiko's father.
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Sano Ichiro / int_dcbddebe	comment	Pregnant Badass: Pregnant or not, Reiko will do whatever she can to be a part of Sano's investigations. This comes back to bite her when she miscarries her third child.
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Sano Ichiro / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Sano Ichiro / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Chamberlain Yanagisawa is a major antagonist throughout the series; he comes up with many schemes that might or do result in the ruination of his rivals, he's incredibly manipulative, and he holds no true loyalty to the Shogun. In actuality, fact indicates that the real Yanagisawa was likely little more than a yes man.
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Sano Ichiro / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Sano Ichiro / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: In Shinju, the Shogun's first appearance is during the New Year's festival where he's dressed up as a princess from The Tale of Genji. In The Concubine's Tattoo, ShichisaburÅ� disguises himself as one of Tsunayoshi's concubines so he can sneak into the Inner Chambers while enacting one of Yanagisawa's plans.
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Sano Ichiro / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Sano Ichiro / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Reiko uses her courtly status to search for information that her husband and his detectives might not otherwise find. If she runs into trouble, she always has a knife up the sleeve of her kimono, and she knows how to use it.
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Sano Ichiro / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Sano Ichiro / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: The Black Lotus sect, featured in the novel of the same name, is derived of a group of fanatical worshipers who believe the destruction of Japan will bring the dawn of Enlightenment. They seek obedient individuals who can be easily swayed to their thinking (though they have drugs to make this even easier), and those who resist are systematically starved/abused until their spirits are broken. If that fails, they're imprisoned or killed. Underneath the temple are a series of underground tunnels dug by slaves that lead to various villages. Those who are already under Anraku's control willingly do his bidding, no matter how morally abhorrent the task.
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Sano Ichiro / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
Sano Ichiro / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: In ShinjÅ«, the titular case is about an upper-class lady and a shunga artist who committed double suicide in the hopes they would be able to live together in the afterlife. It's an enforced example, as the two victims had never met in life and their deaths were made to look like a shinjÅ« by the murderer. In The Concubine's Tattoo, Harume and Danzaemon, the eta headman, were deeply in love, but could never be together because of their vast differences in class.
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Sano Ichiro / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Sano Ichiro / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: A lot of Edo's police force use their status for personal gain, such as taking bribes in exchange for letting the accused off the hook.
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Sano Ichiro / int_ec4585b2	type	Delivery Guy
Sano Ichiro / int_ec4585b2	comment	Delivery Guy: Inverted in ''The Dragon King's Palace; the normally flighty Keisho-in is the only one who is collected and confident when Midori goes into labor during their imprisonment, coaching Midori through the birth of her first child.
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Sano Ichiro / int_ed358a04	type	Jidaigeki
Sano Ichiro / int_ed358a04	comment	Jidaigeki: The novels are set in the Edo period during the later years of Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi's reign.
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Sano Ichiro / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Sano Ichiro / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: In The Concubine's Tattoo, Lady Ichiteru's beauty, rank, and sensuality arouse Hirata to the point where his inquiries often get off track. He tries to resist her charms, but he fails each time. It's highly implied- if not outright stated- that Ichiteru is partially invoking this trope, using her courtesan training to make him lust after her.
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Sano Ichiro / int_f19b8b46	comment	The Coroner: Dr. Ito Genboku serves as Sano's right hand man when it comes to dissecting corpses. Many of the autopsies Ito preforms help give Sano a starting point for investigations with no obvious murder method or to confirm that the victim(s) died in the manner they initially seemed to.
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Sano Ichiro / int_f1d2c779	comment	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: The standard of beauty for women was for them to have pale skin, black hair, and small red lips. Many women have this appearance and will go to desperate lengths to maintain and/or achieve it. Older women, such as Lady Keisho-in, will apply layer after layer of white makeup to their faces and/or dye their hair black to try to maintain a youthful look.
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Sano Ichiro / int_f2097aef	comment	Finally Found the Body: Tokugawa Tadatoshi, a cousin of Tsunayoshi's, went missing during the Great Fire of Meireki and was assumed to have died during the chaos. It isn't until over 40 years later that his skeleton is found. (His body is identified thanks to the unique sword he possessed being buired with him.) The cut marks on his bones point to him being murdered, and finding Tadatoshi's murderer is the plot of The Fire Kimono.
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Sano Ichiro / int_f438b11b	type	Who's Laughing Now?
Sano Ichiro / int_f438b11b	comment	Who's Laughing Now?: The reason Ienobu wants to be shogun so badly is so he can force all those who made fun of him for being weak and physically disabled to bow before him as ruler of Japan. This is taken to the extreme when Sano finds out Ienobu's made plans to conquer the world.
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Sano Ichiro / int_f4f3252e	comment	Law of Inverse Fertility: The Shogun is desperate for a son and heir. Naturally, his wife never conceives and his concubines don't do much better. (Granted, part of this is because of the Shogun's prefrence for boys and men, but it's not like anyone's going to point that out to him.)
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Sano Ichiro / int_f93e1eb7	comment	Locked Away in a Monastery: The ending of The Iris Fan notes that Lady Nobuko was shuffled off to a monastery thanks to her actions leading to the Shogun's death.
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Sano Ichiro / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Sano Ichiro / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: In The Samurai's Wife, after the murderer strikes again, Sano passes off Aisu's corpse as his own, hoping his "death" will throw off Yanagisawa. This proves to be useless as Yanagisawa was there with Aisu when the murderer attacked.
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Sano Ichiro / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: The murder of a family member is the motive behind more than one murder. Yanagisawa vows revenge against Sano for Yoritomo and, later, Yoshisato's deaths, even though Sano had nothing to do with either of them. In Yoshisato's case, his death was faked by Ienobu as part of a plan to get Yanagisawa to work with him. Lady Nobuko never forgave the one who caused the death of her daughter, Tsuruhime. She pulls a knife on Ienobu in the final battle, but only stops herself from killing him when Yanagisawa enters and she can't decide who she hates more.
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Sano Ichiro / int_fc9379ed	comment	Sidekick Graduations Stick: Hirata starts out as Sano's right hand man before assuming Sano's position as the Shogun's chief investigator after Sano gets promoted to Chamberlain. As the series progresses, Hirata gets more attention in the spotlight, even getting his own subplot that spans multiple books.
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Sano Ichiro / int_fcd46998	comment	Red Light District: The Yoshiwara pleasure quarter is a cordoned off section of Edo that caters to practically and all carnal desires. It's primary inhabitants are prostitutes and the owners of the properties they live on.
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