"Toya-dono!"
Asahina Taisuke and Yakai Chiyomoto led the household retainers, Samurai, and the powerful Chita clans, leaving the camp for fifteen li, to personally welcome the Imagawa family's senior clansman and family elder, the new Patriarch's brother-in-law, the governor of Shita County in Jumogawa Province, and Shimizu Castle Guardian, Toya Hongtong (courtesy name: Jibukei).
This person was a real power figure in the Imagawa family, a position roughly equivalent to Lin Xiuzhen of the Oda Danjo Chonosuke family—Lin Xiuzhen before his rebellion, that is, a big shot whom even the contemporary patriarch must show deference to.
