High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Eight Colored Clans of Saiunkoku are a fictional elite of noble families in the light novel, manga and anime series Saiunkoku Monogatari. They form the upper class and higher nobility of Saiunkoku. Most of the drama in the story involves interactions between the imperial clan (Shi) the more eminent clans (Ran and Hong), and one of the lowest clans (Sa), as well as the families as a whole with a mysterious acquaintance, the Hyo family.