Zatoichi with his 26 films and over a hundred episode TV series starred by Shintaro Katsu is a well known [franchise][1]<sup>TVTropes Warning</sup> as well as a meme as the epitome of the perfect blind swordsman. There's also the Film with Takeshi Kitano as Zatoichi and 3 more reboots, but let's forget those. Now, Zatoichi is blind as a bat. So to make him in 4th edition, he needs to take **blind**, to fit the basic premise. Blind is pretty bad in itself, but a necessary stepstone. Then, he's also depicted as being a blind wandering barber, so he has to be **clanless**, which means he has to be built using one of the clanless variants of the **ronin** rules<sup>L5R Core Rules 4th ed. p.234</sup>. In other words: he can't be a Samurai, he can't learn in non-shady Samurai schools. What Insight Rank and School Rank combination our blind ronin needs to go blind master swordsman and reliably win against enemies of the same insight & highest school rank while retaining a social rank of between -1.0 (Entertainer) to 0.4 (Ashigaru)? ##References >###BLIND [PHYSICAL] (6 POINTS) >You possess no natural eyesight whatsoever save for a slight ability to determine light and dark. You suffer a penalty of -3k3 to all ranged attack rolls and -1k1 to melee attack rolls. Your base Armor TN is equal to your Refl exes Trait plus 5 (armor adds bonuses as normal). Your Water Ring is considered two ranks lower for the purposes of determining how far you may move as part of a Move Action. Any attempt at a Simple Move Action requires an Athletics/Agility roll (TN 20) or you are knocked Prone. You may not make Perception rolls unless the GM judges that you can use senses other than sight for the roll.<sup>L5R Core Rules 4th ed. p.156</sup> [1]: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/Zatoichi