Editing Crab Clan (section)

===Yasuki Family===
The Yasuki are the odd ones out, namely because they weren't originally of the Crab. These merchants were once part of the Crane Clan's financial empire, but faced flak because their black markets were a huge source of scandal. Facing persecution and embargoes from their own brethren, the Yasuki promptly decided to take their business elsewhere and create their own markets [[Meme|with blackjack and hookers.]] The Crab took them in, and they proved to be a surprisingly good fit, honouring the protection of their new home with their wealth and loyalty. And loyal they remain, being entirely willing to give their lives on the Wall despite their origins and specializations.

The Yasuki are merchants first and foremost, and their back-alley black market used-car-salesman style is seen as crude, greedy, and dishonorable by most Rokugani who already treat merchants with contempt as money-grubbing parasites who buy their way into polite society. They'll sell almost anything (including wares deemed dishonorable as long as they don't jeopardize their laws and markets) and haggle about the price the whole way, and their courtly negotiations tend to come down to providing gifts and goods in exchange for promises and agreements, yet they are also honest about their intent to make a profit without any of the more flowery trappings of negotiation in Rokugan. As a result, between their actual trade deals, smuggling operations, and black markets, the Yasuki are ludicrously wealthy, and use all of their gains in court to keep their new brothers and sisters supplied against the Shadowlands. They take these attitudes and their assets to court, and are seen as the most "civilized" of the Crabs that most Clans (other than the Cranes) would prefer to deal with...even if most samurai think their preferred style of gift-giving and favor-trading is crude, almost peasant-like, and bordering on bribery. The Yasuki, of course, see it differently: they're masters of trade, and they're making sure everyone gets what they want. You scratch their back, and they'll scratch yours.

Just make sure you're not the Crane Clan, who want them dead, or the Daidoji family, who want them deader. The Yasuki and the Daidoji have been locked in an economic war with their markets, which has the unfortunate side-effect of giving rise to organized crime in Rokugan...as well as spaces where the Kolat conspiracy seeking to overthrow the Kami-ordained society can thrive.