Completion Tips

Route a province once

• Decide before you enter a region whether you are clearing it fully — that means both characters, in one trip.
• Do Naoe's Kuji-kiri and Hidden Trails and Yasuke's Katas and Horse Archery on the same pass, swapping rather than travelling twice.
• Viewpoints first: they are the cheapest way to reveal what the province actually contains.
• Leave Legendary Chests until you have the traversal upgrades that make the awkward ones reachable.
• Yamashiro (48) and Kii (45) are among the heaviest provinces (Omi has 49, Izumi Settsu 48) — do them late, when both characters are built.

The Kuji-kiri, specifically

1. It is a memory test, not a reflex test

   The prompts fade as the sequence repeats, so the skill is holding the pattern rather than reacting quickly.

2. Naoe only

   There is no Yasuke equivalent at the same spot. If a meditation point will not activate, you are the wrong character.

3. Twenty-two, across all nine provinces

   They are spread rather than clustered, so they are best picked up as you route a region rather than hunted separately.

4. Each is a Knowledge Point

   Which is the actual reason to do them: Knowledge Points gate abilities, so the meditation spots feed your build.

Common time-wasters

• Exploring a whole province as one character and returning later for the other's four types.
• Chasing Legendary Chests before the traversal tools that make them trivial.
• Treating castles as one activity — they are two, and each character's route through them is different.
• Ignoring the merchant types (gear, port, ornament, food) that count toward completion just like the rest.

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