Leader of the Matsumae-Han officials, wears a distinctive straw hat, and spreads lies about Okuru. First recognizably appears in the attack on Mugen, seen again in the meeting at the temple, when he gives his officers permission to kill Mugen if he interferes again with their mission. He later is killed by Okuru (after refusing to listen to the extenuating circumstances about the murder of the official), who rips one of the burning arrows out of his own body to plunge into Tobata.