Hokazono’s palette law is the one the jackets still obey: white, black, and red, because the hero’s coat is already stained. Everything else is a blade’s weather made visible, or a clan’s tattoo. This page is the index. The arguments live on the linked files.
Goldfish
Kuro, Aka, Nishiki. Enten’s three. They are the household before they are a moveset. Hokazono threw carp off the storyboard because goldfish recorded the daily life between Chihiro and his father, and the fins did not look chubby. Official trailers still sell all three behind the coat. Craft: goldfish, not koi. Furniture: the bowl. Steel: Enten.
Hishaku flame
Ten criminal sorcerers. Flame tattoos. Shared fire-gate. The mark is the membership card; the gate is the clause. Yura is the mind, not the loudest killer in the set of ten. Org: Hishaku. Kit: fire-gate.
Magatsumi flowers
Shinuchi’s weather. After the treaty, Malediction: about 200,000 civilians, flowers. Anyone who holds the sheathed blade starts becoming Akemura. The Kamunabi filed the massacre as victory. Essay: Malediction. Blade: Magatsumi.
Owl
Tobimune’s support weather. An owl over Japan. Samura’s childhood magazine showing through without reprinting it. Essay: owl over Japan. Blade: Tobimune.
Clouds
Cloud Gouger. Mei, Yui, Kou. Storm cyan on Volume 2’s jacket against Chihiro’s night steel. Sojo loved the work and never met the man. Blade: Cloud Gouger.
White, black, red
The coat, the blood, the type. Later books invite one extra hue when a rival blade is on stage: cyan for Cloud Gouger, snow for Volume 11. The fish stay in the triad. Author: Hokazono. Covers: jackets.
Other marks
Kamunabi, state sorcerers, rebuilt from the Counter-Sorcery Army. The name is the office. Kamunabi.
Shinuchi, auction-house and Kamunabi name for Magatsumi. “Masterpiece.” A listing that treats a massacre as a lot.
Flame Bone, Hiyuki’s inherited skeleton. A permission slip you can see through the body. essay.
Play’s paper, Hiruhiko’s origami, Blood Crane, a hotel coming apart. Play.