# Chikamatsu Koichizoku **colors:** blue, violet **kamon:** pine, bamboo, and plum branches entwined together **motto:** steadfastness, perseverance, and resilience **Delm:** Kinji Chikamatsu **Matrona:** Sumi Chikamatsu - Fujimoto **Spouse:** Loren Fujimoto (deceased) **Concubine:** Ryuzaki Haruko **Founders MP:** Aoi Kita Chikamatsu **Spokesperson:** Yuzu Shibatomi **Militia:** The Boom Patrol **Militia Commander:** Hideyori Shimizu Chikamatsu **Associate Member Families:** Akiyama, Fujimoto, Himura, Watsuki, Kita, Kamiya, Sagara, Shimizu, Saito, Myojin, Takani ## Territory Map 2 (650 sq km) landhold west of Beru that includes Mount Imeon in Kocha Valley; adjacent plots (1500 sq km) west of the landhold; (1500 sq km) south of the landhold; two small islands northwest of the Kasai Isles — Rebun and Rishiri; the island of Weyr southeast of the Norse Eyja. ## Agriculture - Three Friends of Winter — (300 sq km) bamboo, evergreen pine, and plum groves and plantations - Amber Mountain: maple groves that produce syrup, wood, and fried maple leaves; runs tours in the fall - Beru Bamboo Forest: (130 sq km, 16 sq km open to the public) — about thirty minutes southwest of Beru by train. The pedestrian trails between Tenryuji Temple (Buddhist) and Nonomiya Shrine (Shinto) are open to the public. ## Corporate **Chikamatsu Paper:** paper and lumber mills producing exceptional paper, packaging, wood products, lumber, building materials, biomaterials, chemicals, consumer products, and recycling **Skate Palais:** located in Beru, seven rinks under one roof supporting recreational and professional ice and roller skating **Kamiya Kasshin-ryu-kenjutsu dojo** **Beira (queen of winter):** designs and makes winter apparel for exploration, climbing, sport, and athletics, also footwear, equipment, and accessories **Orica:** engineers and manufactures commercial, agricultural, and military explosives, detonator systems, demolitions, and blasting systems; offers demolitions services and manufactures mining chemicals — manufacturing facilities located on Weyr **Snow Beer:** brewery **Take Biru (bamboo beer):** brewery **Celestial Stone:** has mines in Mt. Imeon and surroundings in Kocha Valley; produces lapis lazuli, gold, copper, iron, spinel, zoisite, blue-green emeralds, ruby garnets, pink rubies, and dimension marbles. The mines produce 878,003 ounces of gold annually; gold is currently worth 639 Ryu per ounce on Nejiro. **Hollyburn Mountain Ski Resort** **Association Football Club Yama Tengu, Beru (mountain demons)** **Midnight Roller Derby Team, Beru** **Rockets Ice Hockey Club, Beru** **Tatsu (dragon):** makes anti-personnel mines, anti-vehicle mines, military-grade demolition systems, APCs, military VTOLs, military-grade trucks and support vehicles, field guns, rockets, missiles, launchers, assault rifles, shotguns, knives, vehicle armor, personnel armor; sales offices located in Beru; industrial park located on Weyr; other manufacturing facilities located on Strekoza at the Stardust Industrial Park **Wicked PMC:** mechanized infantry, armor, aerospace, geo and stellar survey, security, and investigative units. Accepts interstellar contracts for stellar and planetary exploration and survey, surveillance, reconnaissance, sabotage, espionage, objective raids, protection details, convoy escorts. **Tsumetokiba (claws and fangs):** traditional hand-forged tamahagane (round and precious like a gem steel) and blue mokume gane (wood grain metal) blade smiths who create daisho, katana, wakizashi, tanto, yari, naginata, nagamaki, tachi, uchigatana, nodachi, odachi, kodachi, yajiri, kogatana, tessen, and kacchu — katana prices begin at three thousand Ryu **Mokuzai Kogei-hin (wood crafts):** makes furniture, cabinets, housewares, art, tree houses, elevated houses, accessories, and watermarked stationery **Butterfly Consignment:** chain of thrift stores **FotoShoot:** photography studio that specializes in boudoir photos and glamour shots **Kinder Boutique:** chain selling the full range of baby and children's clothing, accessories, health and hygiene products, and toys **Stella's Garage:** detailing, repairs, body work, paint, and maintenance for cars, ATVs, trucks, and motorcycles **We Deliver:** regional delivery service from food to firewood and everything in between **Village Books:** brick-and-mortar bookstore chain with cafe and gift shops **The Swimming Hole:** indoor and outdoor competition-level and recreational pools; offers diving meets, racing meets, training, lessons, exercise classes, laps, and pro shops. The recreation pools have slides, diving boards and platforms, rope swings, pool toys and games; there are lifeguards, snack shops, and locker rooms — locations worldwide **Icelantic Skis:** handmade skis and snowboards with a boutique feel; signature risers at tip and tail combined with camber allow for float in the deep and great edge control with fluidity from turn to turn **Atomic:** makes Olympic-quality performance skis that are made to impress, along with ski packages, boots, poles, bags, and performance and technical athletic apparel **Counting Crows Nursery & Florist:** full service nursery, garden shop, and gift center providing superior plants and flowers, gardening tools and accessories, and professional advice; locations on the landhold, in Beru, and in Leaf **Chikushi (bamboo paper):** manufactures bamboo fiber products: stationery, consumer paper goods, record player needles, roofing, umbrellas, bed linens, fabrics, beehives, cooking products, cutting boards, darts, arrows, stakes, 'wooden' swords, bokken, slingshots, staffs, flooring, computer hardware, bicycle frames, turbine blades, charcoal, skateboards, bioplastics, composites, musical instruments, matches; sales offices in Beru and Leaf; industrial park on the landhold