"A Single Grain of rice can tip the scale. One man may be difference between Victory and defeat." - By Emperor China Taiga was a orphaned, but Nanzaemon Nakiri saved him from the streets and took him in as a son. Nanzaemon taught him everything about being a professional chef and all different foods, giving Taiga the name,the emperor. No one has seen him just only his title. but a certain someone made him come out the shell, in the first year ceremony.