Courts of the Crane Clan

Some degree of priority is needed. That's the point of the alliance. But I understand that it can't be too much Crane-centered.
Surely a good material for story .

EDIT: But I can't imagine how the "balancing" will look like. "Save 10 Cranes for 1 Lion"?

The peasantry is also a key part of the Empire's infrastructure, which should concern us as the ORIGINAL clan of wealth and commerce.

Yeah. And Crane mythology does feature our leaders engaging in individual acts of fairly radical boundary-crossing, sitting down to talk with hinin beggars and such. We just don't go out of our way to practice it systemically.

Perhaps it's time we changed that?

Everyone toss a koku to the nearest beggar! It's generosity time!

In one fiction, Doji Makoto was playing with ordinary children openly in public. That was a good story (he one-cutted some merchant... I am afraid that he was Unicorn )

Tradition (should do) and Progress (will do) combined. Sounds right.