"The Tanaka family is a small family on Kyushu Island. They were originally farmers, but later married the youngest daughter of a landlord's family, got a piece of land, and gradually became landlords themselves.
Later, during the war, Tanaka Kiji, a man of the Tanaka family, was conscripted and managed to curry favor with a noble, becoming a military merchant. He collected many valuable items from China and took them back to Japan.
At that time, Tanaka Kiji was working as a transporter for the noble, and he himself also reaped substantial benefits from the arrangement.
After Japan's defeat in the war, Tanaka Kiji built a family temple, enshrining a god statue. He claimed that he was repenting for his actions during the war, and seeking redemption. In reality, he hid the cultural relics obtained during the war in the family temple.
