actions
Every Season, your Daimyo can take a number of “Season
Actions.” He can use his Season Actions for the following tasks.
1. Provincial Improvement: Make your Province a better
place by building important structures
2. Craft Items: The Daimyo can direct the resources of the
Province to create items of beauty
3. Personal Training: Make yourself a better samurai by
adding further details to your character sheet
4. Espionage: Your Daimyo can spy on other Provinces in
preparation for their innevitable defeat
Provincial Improvement
Your Daimyo may construct a Holding in his lands, providing his
samurai the benefit of that Holding when it is complete.
Building a Holding requires a Season Action.
A Province may only have a total of ten Holdings.
A brand new Holding begins at rank 1: a modest structure.
However, with further Season Actions, you can improve your
Holdings, increasing their ranks.
A Holding may not have a rank greater than three.
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Improving a Holding requires a Season Action.
BLACKSMITH
Men pull iron and other metals from the ground and
blacksmiths forge them into deadly weapons. The quality of
your Clan’s weapons relies on the Blacksmith.
With a Blacksmith, your samurai are all equipped with
normal quality katana and other weaponry (see Equipment,
below). Each Season, your Blacksmith can take a Season
Action to provide one of your samurai with a normal quality
weapon. The rank of your Blacksmith equals the number of
normal quality weapons and other equipment your samurai
can make each Season.
For example, if you have a rank 1 Blacksmith, as a Season
Action, he can provide one of your samurai with one katana.
A Blacksmith of higher rank can produce better quality
equipment. Each rank allows him to increase the rank of your
equipment by one level of quality.
For example, a rank 2 Blacksmith can make two normal
quality katana or a single fine quality katana. A rank 3
Blacksmith can make three normal quality katana or one
exquisite quality katana.
BUDDHIST TEMPLE
If your Daimyo supports a Buddhist Temple, your samurai
gain a number of bonus Wisdom wagers, per Season, equal to
the rank of the Buddhist Temple. The Temple only provides
one, two or three wagers for all the samurai to use, so use
them carefully.
Also, a Temple provides your samurai with Meditation Points
(see Magic & Religion). It provides s a number of Meditation
Points equal to its rank.
DOJO
If your Daimyo supports a Dojo, your samurai gain a number
of bonus Prowess wagers, per Season, equal to the rank of the
Dojo. The College only provides one, two or three wagers for
all the samurai to use, so use them carefully.
The Dojo provides another benefit: it provides a number
of free Season Actions for the sole purpose of the Self
Improvement Season Action. These Actions do not count
toward the maximum number of Actions that may be spent
for Self Improvement (see Self Improvement as a Season
Action, below).
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GAMBLING DEN
If your Daimyo supports a Gambling Den, your samurai gain
a number of bonus Cunning wagers, per Season, equal to
the rank of the Gambling Den. The Den only provides one,
two or three wagers for all the samurai to use, so use them
carefully.
Also, the Gambling Den provides additional koku per
Season… and may produce more if you take a gamble. The
Den provides one koku per rank of the Den. If the players
want to gamble, they can earn two additional koku if they
can roll a 5 or a 6 on a number of dice equal to the rank of
the Den. If they do not roll a 5 or 6, they lose the koku they
gambled.
GARRISON
A Garrison allows you to hold troops in your Province.
A Garrison allows a rank of Ashigaru for each rank of the
Garrison. (See War for more information.)
GEISHA HOUSE
If your Daimyo supports a Geisha House, your samurai gain
a number of bonus Beauty wagers, per Season, equal to the
rank of the Geisha House. The Geisha House only provides
one, two or three wagers for all the samurai to use, so use
them carefully.
Also, the Geisha House provides your samurai with a
number of rumors equal to its rank. A rumor is a Wisdombased wager that allows the samurai to say things are true
this Season. Like normal wagers, rumors cannot be used to
contradict facts already established in the game. If a samurai
wants to use a wager from the Geisha House to say the
Daimyo of a rival Clan is secretly a drunk, or a coward or
even dead (and being portrayed by his kagemusha), he may
do so.
RICE FARM
Where the peasants toil to generate the real keystone of the
economy. Rice Farms produce rice, which is essential to a
samurai economy.
A Rice Farm produces two Koku per rank per Season.

SAKE WORKS
If your Daimyo supports a Sake Works, your samurai gain a
number of bonus Courage wagers, per Season, equal to the
rank of the Sake Works. The Sake Works only provides one,
two or three wagers for all the samurai to use, so use them
carefully.
Also, the Sake Works provides an additional benefit.
Providing Ashigaru with sake (see Violence for more
information) increases their morale, making them more
effective warriors. Using a Season of sake increases the rank of
any Ashigaru Troop by one.
SHINTO SHRINE
If your Daimyo supports a Shinto Shrine, you gain a number
of Blessings (see Religion & Magic) equal to the Shrine’s
rank. In other words, if you have a rank 2 Shrine, your
samurai share two Blessings among themselves. A Province
may have more than one Shrine, thus providing more
Blessings for your samurai to share.
SILK FARM
Silk is the fabric of the nobility. In Old Japan, there are
so many Silk Farm, samurai blow their noses with silk
handkerchiefs and throw them away. Every Season, a
Silk Farm produces enough Silk to clothe your Daimyo’s
Officers… and a little more.
If your Daimyo supports a Silk Farm, your samurai gain a
number of bonus Beauty wagers, per Season, equal to the
rank of the Silk Farm. The Farm only provides one, two or
three wagers for all the samurai to use, so use them carefully.
Also, the Silk Farm provides a number of Gifts each Season
equal to its rank. A Gift, when presented, adds a number of
free wagers to any social risk equal to its own rank. A Silk
Farm produces a number of Gift Ranks equal to its own rank,
so a rank 3 Farm can make three rank 1 Gifts or one rank 3
Gift, as the Daimyo wishes.
STABLES
Where grooms breed and care for horses. Your Clan’s horses
have a rank equal to the rank of your Stables. Any horsebased risks gain a number of free wagers equal to the rank of
your Stables.

SUMO SCHOOL
If your Daimyo supports a Sumo School, your samurai gain
a number of bonus Strength wagers, per Season, equal to the
rank of the Sumo School. The Sumo School only provides
one, two or three wagers for all the samurai to use, so use
them carefully.

The Sumo School provides for an additional benefit: the
samurai may ignore any weapon Injury not caused by a
katana. Your samurai may do this a number of times per
Season equal to the rank of the Sumo School.
(Don’t go jumping in front of cannons or perform other acts
of stupidity, trying to abuse a rule’s literal text, thus violating
the spirit of the rule. Only a wanker would do that. Lose
three Honor.)