Estate Dojo

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Estate Dojo
Most large estates house at least one dōjō where students train in the arts of a particular clan tradition. These schools vary in attendance, shape, and size depending on the needs of the school and number of students. For instance, the Crane students of the Doji Diplomat School require minimal space because most of their studies are conducted in courts throughout Rokugan. On the other end of the spectrum, the Unicorn’s Utaku Battle Maidens require large compounds for animal husbandry and horse training. Some schools have multiple dōjō spread across their clan’s lands, while others have only a single location for training where all students congregate. A few have no formal dōjō at all, treating the world itself as their training ground

Placing dōjō for multiple schools in the same place can be beneficial when they complement each other. For instance, the dōjō of the Doji Bureaucrats and Daidoji Spymasters are frequently collocated. Both traditions exist amicably, each feeding the other’s intelligence networks in a symbiotic relationship as they gather intelligence for their daimyō. Schools like this combine their resources and even facilities, giving the daimyō additional room for soldiers, staff, and supplies.

In contrast, bushi schools like the Lion’s Akodo Commanders and the Matsu Berserkers are healthy rivals. Keeping their dōjō apart but periodically exposing the students to one another at shared training facilities feeds a beneficial competition between the two martial traditions. Instructors use this rivalry to breed competition which motivates students, drawing out hidden talents otherwise buried behind complacency

Some other schools must be kept apart for the sake of harmony. Shugenja schools are notoriously covetous of their mystical secrets, and many prefer that knowledge of their invocations stay out the hands of other traditions—a risk that proximity would magnify