Shinseki Nokotawa Guide

It was not a place, but a person. Or perhaps a curse.

Now, if you listen closely at twilight, you can hear the scrape of metal against stone. And if you follow the sound, you will find a man kneeling in an endless circle of his own making. shinseki nokotawa

They said a samurai, Shinseki, failed his lord and fled into the bamboo forest. There, he buried his broken sword and renamed himself Nokotawa — "the leftover field." Each night, he replants the sword. Each morning, it grows back rusted. It was not a place, but a person