Historical

The Fire Brigade

By Ari Weaver

Edo, 1786, the windy first month of the year. You've just joined the Me brigade of Kanda, the townsmen who stop fires by pulling down houses in their path while their standard-bearer Shinzō stands on a burning roof to show where the line will hold. Someone the broadsheet sellers call the Fox has set three fires in Kanda this month, and a samurai inspector named Hosokawa has decided a brigade man did it.

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