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===Asahina Family===
In a family of artisans and diplomats, the Asahina are the most peaceful and artistic, being outright pacifists who use their shugenja teachings to create wondrous beauty and helpful support items instead of crushing their foes with the elements. Their founder was a Phoenix shugenja out for revenge for Phoenix casualties after the Crane intervened to stop a war, but turned over a new leaf after a lone samurai-ko showed him how far he'd fallen. 

Asahina are the most deeply committed to avoiding warfare and taking lives unless they absolutely have to defend themselves, so they might get overlooked if you're looking for a more explosive brand of magic. Instead, they mastered ''tsangusuri'': the creation of limited-use magical items, amulets, and fetishes (not that kind) through drawing out the innate spiritual properties of its materials and form, whether it's blessed blades or statues which assist in healing or promoting bountiful harvests. Their delight in coming up with ingenious, inventive creations is tempered by a desire to create practical effects which can [[This Guy|help everyday people]]. However, there's also a more grimdark application of this spiritual magic: ''meisho'', which controls the spirit of a person as opposed to an item. The art of ''meisho'' is a closely-guarded secret known only to the Asahina, entrusted only to their most elite shugenja. They typically avoid using it to control people and apply its fundamentals to instead create the most powerful magical items, to the point that sometimes the item's spirit becomes fully sentient...but for the most part, these are dismissed as rumors. As well as the rumors that the walls of their temples might have more spirit in them than is healthy.