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"> Ni-kogu-dzame was a big rat civil war occurred in the late 40th century aTwbW. Two large clan alliances [Matu and Hagu] were fighting each other for control of the Fidjishoma port city. Fidjishoma was the key to the smuggling trade with the Nha-Dai Kingdom. Due to this, the war was characterized by special brutality and huge casualties on both sides. The end of the war was a terrible battle for the city. After 4 months of constant meat grinder, the Matu clan alliance pushed the Hagu troops to the coastal areas of the city and surrounded them. Immediately after that, the Shogunate troops entered the city. The cats suddenly attacked the exhausted rats and easily destroyed the troops of both sides. The leader of the Matu clan, Tojiro-gato Kogimoyori-matu, along with his bodyguards and a handful of surviving soldiers, managed to break into the port. There he met the deadly wounded Igojo-dzashichi Tagechi-hagu, the leader of the Hagu clan. Tagechi-hagu was preparing to kill himself and his cubs to avoid falling into the clutches of cats. But Kogimoyori-matu managed to convince Tagechi-haga to save the cubs. Kogimoyori-matu swore he would protect the cubs with his life, and if he could save them, he would raise them as his own, but leave them in charge of the Hagu clan. Kogimoyori-matu sailed away with the cubs and 2 bodyguards on a bamboo boat, and Tagechi-hagu stayed and died, covering Kogimoyori-matu's departure. The cats attacked the boat several times from the shore and tried to board it, but Kogimoyori-matu managed to repel all attacks and fulfilled the first part of his oath. However, Kogimoyori-matu failed to fulfill the second part of the oath. Kogimoyori-matu died of his wounds two weeks later. Before his death, Kogimoyori-matu gave the Tagechi-hagu cubs to his bodyguard, a cat named Umachizodaegoru-neko, to raise. According to Kogimoyori-matu's last secret decree, matured, the Tagechi-hagu cubs, along with his wife and son, were supposed to unite the Matu and Hagu clans. Until then, Umachizodaegoru-neko became the regent. And so it happened. Eight years later, Tigoru, Tagechi-hagu's youngest son, became the leader of the Matu and Hagu clans, receiving the temple name Tigomoetazu-matuhagujiro. Three years later, Tigomoetazu-matuhagujiro was recognized as the reincarnation of Kohegu, united 34 cat and rat clans and launched a full-scale war against the Neko Shogunate, which continues to this day. Tojiro-gato Kogimoyori-matu is considered the last legendary hero of the Itazu [rat] clans. He is also considered the ideologue of the idea of uniting the rat nation. Umachizodaegoru-neko is still the honorary Eternal regent of the Itazu clans. At the age of 84, he is still fighting against the Shogunate.