Mirumoto Hoan was a yojimbo of the Dragon Clan. During the Gozoku period the Phoenix and Dragon cemented an alliance with his betrothal to Shiba Sasugo. His wife focused herself how to devise ways to make bushi more effective guardians for the clan's shugenja. The Mirumoto Bushi she trained actively sought out any hidden threats, and only let the shugenja deal with it as a last resort. One of her descendants, Mirumoto Zurui, would be granted her own vassal family, the Zurui.