#keikichi

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I didn't post the second one

[talesofedo]

Today I Learned (TIL), Okada Izo version:

+ Okada Izo 岡田以蔵 was born on 14 February 1838 (by the western calendar) as the oldest son of Okada Yoshihisa and his wife, Rie.

Izo's father has been described as a kind person who enjoyed the good fortune of others and was known in his neighborhood as a bit of a matchmaker.

+ Izo had one younger brother, Keikichi, who was born in March 1844.

+ Izo's personal name (imina) was Yoshifuru.

+ He was born in Iwamura village and when he was 10, the family moved to Enokuchi village, outside of Kochi castle town.

The particular neighborhood where his family lived was called Shichiken-machi 七軒町 ("seven eaves row") because his street had seven houses in a row.

The characters "七以", using the first character of 七軒町 (Shichiken-machi) and the first character of 以蔵 (Izo), were sometimes used as code for him in writings related to the Kinnoto (Tosa Loyalist Party).

+ Izo's father was originally an ashigaru who later bought his way into the rank of goshi with money.

Buying your way to a higher rank, or even buying your way into the samurai class from being a farmer or merchant, was not uncommon. Even Sakamoto Ryoma's family were originally merchants before buying their way to becoming goshi.

However, like ashigaru, goshi belonged to the class of low-ranking samurai (kashi) and in Tosa, which was a particularly conservative domain, a great division existed between kashi and joshi (upper-class samurai), making kashi the subject of discrimination and restrictions.

Those restrictions often dictated even small details of everyday life: kashi were not allowed to carry umbrellas, and they were not allowed to wear tabi socks or geta, even in winter.

+ Izo is often described as having been illiterate, but this idea originates from Shiba Ryotaro's fiction.

In reality, Izo had a normal education but was not a talented student, had little interest in books, and often found it difficult to articulate his thoughts. There were many instances people referred to him as "stupid" and "that idiot" throughout his life.

+ Izo was self-taught in swordsmanship to some extent. It's likely he initially learned from his father and then practiced on his own before formally joining a dojo.

I've been trying to unravel some of the sources and it appears he joined the fencing hall of Asada Kanshichi Naomoto in Kochi when he was 12 or 13 years old.

Asada was a master of the Ono-ha Itto-ryu (Nakanishi-ha Itto-ryu) who had previously studied at Shigakukan, one of the big sword schools in Edo. He was also the sword instructor for Tosa's han school.

It was here Izo first met Takechi Hanpeita, a fellow student 9 years his senior, who would become his mentor, someone he looked up to and followed without question for most of his life.

Izo joined Takechi's school in 1855, at 17 or 18, which was the year Takechi opened his own dojo. A lot of sources put Asada's and Takechi's schools together when talking about Izo's training, so it's confusing.

Izo was quickly recognized as being very talented and none of the other students provided him much of a challenge except Takechi himself. He finally found something he was good at!

+ In 1856, when Izo was 18 or 19, Takechi (and perhaps a recommendation letter from Asada) helped make it possible for him to travel to Edo and train at Shigakukan, Momoi Shunzo's school, where he earned his Menkyo Chuden (middle license) in the Kyoshin Meichi-ryu style before returning to Tosa in 1858.

However, perhaps because Izo didn't have the same foundations in swordsmanship as the others, Momoi called his sword "vulgar and without dignity."

+ In 1860, Izo was able to leave Tosa for training a second time, again helped by Takechi, who was using these trips for his own purposes: to gather others to his cause of Sonno Joi and build connections with shishi from other domains.

After spending time in Chugoku and Kyushu, Takechi left Izo behind in Oka domain to study the Jikishi-ryu style, while he (Takechi) went to Edo and worked on establishing his Kinnoto (Tosa Loyalist Party).

+ Izo returned to Edo in May 1861 and joined the Kinnoto out of loyalty to his teacher.

However, because he had no real interest in politics and his comrades excluded him from their political discussions, considering him too stupid to participate, Izo slowly became more distanced from Takechi, and when his teacher returned to Tosa later that year, Izo was once again left behind.

+ In January 1862, Izo set out to return to Tosa himself, but he became ill along the way and had to stay somewhere to recover before he was well enough to continue traveling home to Tosa.

Perhaps Izo should have taken the hint because things did not improve for him from there:

When Izo set out for Kyoto in June 1862 alongside Takechi and other comrades from the Kinnoto, they were hounded by the metsuke Inoue Saichiro, who was investigating the murder of Yoshida Toyo.

That murder had been ordered by Takechi and carried out by three members of the Kinnoto. Concerned that Inoue would arrest them, Takechi ordered Izo and three others to kill him.

This was the first in a number of assassinations Takechi ordered Izo to carry out that year, mostly in Kyoto. More about these here, in a separate post.

+ In January 1863, Izo suddenly left for Edo.

I'm not entirely clear why, nor do sources seem to agree. The most common theories are:

(1) Izo's services as an assassin were no longer needed because things were going poorly for the Kinnoto and Takechi returned to Tosa, leaving Izo behind once again;

(2) Izo had become more estranged from Takechi and his comrades and chose to leave, perhaps at least partly because he didn't want to be an assassin for a cause he didn't care about;

(3) Takechi reprimanded Izo for his behavior and told him to leave.

Whatever the reason, Takechi removed Izo's name from the membership roster of the Kinnoto.

+ After he arrived in Edo, Izo lived for a short while with Takasugi Shinsaku. However, when Takasugi was recalled to Choshu, Izo was once again left in limbo.

+ It was around the time Takasugi left that Izo was introduced to Katsu Kaishu, either by Takasugi Shinsaku or more likely by Sakamoto Ryoma, who had known him since they were young boys in Tosa. Izo became Katsu's bodyguard.

Katsu Kaishu mentioned Izo in his writing:

As I was walking through the city that night, three samurai suddenly appeared in front of me on Teramachi Street and drew their swords. I was so startled, I started to run, but Okada Izo, who was by my side, quickly drew his long sword and cut one of the men in half. The other two were so scared, they ran away. I barely escaped but I was impressed by Okada's quick action. Later I said to Okada, "You should not enjoy killing people." He said, "Sensei, if it weren't for me, your head would have been cut off." There was nothing I could say in response.

+ Izo left Katsu Kaishu and returned to Kyoto later in 1863, for reasons that are again unclear.

This was a terrible decision: not only were Shogunate troops cracking down on ronin in Kyoto, and the city was overall in turmoil with pro-Shogunate and pro-Sonno Joi groups both causing each other trouble, Izo was also considered homeless (無宿, mushuku): someone whose name had been removed from the family register because he was considered a deserter from his domain. (He did not return when other Tosa retainers had been ordered to return.)

With nowhere to go and without any money, Izo, who was using the name Tetsuzo as an alias, started to borrow and extort money, drowned his sorrows in alcohol, and eventually even sold his long sword to make ends meet while trying not to get captured.

+ In May 1864 he was arrested by the Kyoto magistrate for breaking into a merchant's house.

He was subjected to a public beating, tattooed as a criminal, and handed over to the Tosa metsuke who returned him to Koshi in June.

+ In Tosa, Izo faced being brutally tortured and interrogated for information about his former comrades and about Takechi's involvement Yoshida Toyo's murder.

Takechi, resentful Izo had been caught and worried he would easily succumb to torture and give away his comrades, complained "I wish that fool had killed himself!" He reached out to both Izo's father and his younger brother Keikichi, a member of the Kinnoto, with a plan to poison him.

Whether that plan was carried out is unknown: Izo may have become aware of the plan, he may have taken the poison and survived, or he may have given in to more than 10 months of torture. Whatever the reason, in the end he gave up the names of many Kinnoto members, and confessed his own crimes.

Takechi complained: "Izo is truly the greatest crybaby in all of Japan."

+ On 3 July 1865 (western date), Izo was beheaded and his head was put on display by the riverbed for three days.

He was the only member of the Kinnoto whose head was put on public display after death.

[chaosverse-mainblog]

The past OFA Users reunite for a meeting.

Yoichi- Keikichi Kudo- Reini Bruce- Sanaki Hikage- Shiran Daigoro- Syougo En- Syouroku Nana- Natsuki Toshinori-Masaya Izuku- Kuryuu

[doglok]

猫のけいきち(keikichi) ライブ㉑2024/9/17☀️ cat #ねこの日常 #ねことの暮らし 保護猫けいきち単独ライブです ྀི. via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wvBbnmSQsM

[railing-away]

News of Russo-Japanese Battles: Superior Private ōhashi Keikichi of the Imperial Guard Infantry: Migita Toshihide (1904)

[koorinohebi]

Me: Let me go and brainstorm stuff for Takechi.

Also me: Ended up doodling context for it.

[justmewoeisme0884]

Kenji Sugawara as Keikichi Futami

[ochoislas]

LA GRANADA

El recio viento de aquella noche desnudó al granado de sus hojas, que formaban un cerco al pie.

Cuando abrió por la mañana, Kimiko se sobresaltó de verlo pelado y se maravilló de la perfección del círculo debajo. Hubiera imaginado que el viento lo descompondría.

En el árbol quedaba todavía una única y espléndida granada. Llamó a su madre.

—Ven a ver esto.

—Ah, no me acordaba —su madre levantó la vista al árbol y volvió a la cocina.

Aquello le hizo pensar a Kimiko en su soledad. El granado allá la veranda también parecía solo y olvidado.

Dos semanas antes o así habían recibido la visita de su sobrino de siete años, que enseguida se fijó en las granadas y se encaramó al árbol. Kimiko se quedó prendada de su vitalidad.

—Hay una grande arriba —dijo desde el porche.

—Pero si la cojo no voy a poder bajar.

Era verdad, le habría sido imposible bajar con una granada en cada mano. Kimiko sonrió. Qué lindo era.

Hasta que él vino la gente de la casa se había olvidado del granado. Y desde entonces otro tanto.

Además, entonces la fruta estaba oculta por las hojas; ahora estaba a la vista contra el cielo.

Había vigor pujante y neto en la fruta y en el cerco de hojas al pie. Kimiko fue y la tiró con una pértiga de bambú. Estaba tan madura que las semillas parecían a punto de reventarla. Cuando la dejó en el piso de la veranda éstas brillaban al sol, que parecía traspasarlas.

Casi le dio pena.

Mientras estaba arriba cosiendo, sobre las diez, escuchó la voz de Keikichi. Aunque el portal estaba abierto parecía que había entrado por el portillo del jardín. Había premura en su voz.

—¡Kimiko! ¡Kimiko! —la llamó su madre—. Ha venido Keikichi.

A Kimiko se le desenhebró la aguja y la clavó en el acerico.

—Kimiko andaba diciendo que tenía mucho deseo de verte antes de que te fueras —Keikichi se iba a la guerra—. Pero no podíamos ir a verte sin avisar, y pasaba el tiempo y no venías. Has hecho bien en venir hoy —le pidió que se quedara a almorzar, pero tenía prisa—. Bueno, cómete una granada por lo menos. Es de nuestro jardín —volvió a llamar a Kimiko.

Él la saludó con los ojos como si no pudiera ni esperar a que bajara. Ella se paró en las escaleras. Una calidez pareció invadir los ojos de Keikichi y la granada se le escapó de las manos. Se miraron y sonrieron.

Cuando ella se dio cuenta de lo que hacía, se ruborizó. Keikichi se levantó del porche.

—Cuídate, Kimiko.

—Tú también.

Él ya se había vuelto y se estaba despidiendo de su madre.

Kimiko se quedó mirando el portillo del jardín después que él salió.

—¡Qué prisa tenía! —dijo su madre—. ¡Una granada que es una gloria! —se agachó a recogerla. Él la había dejado caer cuando estaba empezando a abrirla y aquella calidez le iluminó los ojos. No había llegado a partirla en dos. Estaba tirada con las semillas contra el suelo.

Su madre se la llevó a la cocina y la lavó, luego se la tendió a Kimiko. Ella torció la cara y reculó, pero luego, sonrojándose por segunda vez, la tomó azorada.

Parecía que Keikichi había sacado algunas semillas del borde.

Con su madre mirando habría sido extraño que Kimiko se negara a comer. La mordió haciendo como como si nada. El acedo llenó su boca y sintió como si una triste felicidad la penetrara hasta lo más hondo.

Desentendida, su madre se levantó. Fue hasta el tocador y se sentó: —Mira con qué cabeza he salido a despedir a Keikichi.

Kimiko la oía pasarse el peine.

—Cuando tu padre murió —dijo su madre despacio—, tenía miedo de peinarme. Me olvidaba de lo que estaba haciendo. Cuando volvía en mí era como si tu padre estuviera allí, esperando que acabara.

Kimiko recordó cómo su madre se terminaba lo que su padre había dejado en el plato.

Sintió como un encogimiento, una felicidad que le daba ganas de llorar.

Seguramente su madre le había dado la granada porque no quería tirarla, nada más. No tirar nada se había convertido en una costumbre suya.

A solas con su íntima dicha, Kimiko se sintió cohibida ante su madre.

Pensó que finalmente había sido una despedida mejor de lo que Keikichi podía creer, y que era capaz de esperarlo todo lo que hiciera falta.

Miró hacia donde estaba su madre; el sol daba en el papel de las puertas tras las que estaba peinándose ante el espejo.

No sabía por qué, le daba miedo morder la granada que tenía sobre las rodillas.

Kawabata Yasunari

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[talesofedo]

This French M1858 Lefaucheaux revolver was supposedly gifted to Okada Izo by Katsu Kaishu.

It's in the possession of Okada Keikichi's descendants and has been on display in a special exhibit at the Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum in Kochi Prefecture.

The sword pictured above, which was sold on Nihonto Antiques, was forged by the second generation Hizen Tadahiro.

While the one pictured above was not Okada Izo's sword, Izo was said to have carried a first generation Hizen Tadahiro sword "with a grooved blade, a red splash lacquered scabbard, and a carved metal tsuba decorated with gold-plated dragons", perhaps not entirely unlike the koshirae pictured.

Izo's sword was exhibited at Yushukan at some point in the early 20th Century, but its current whereabouts are unknown.

The first generation Hizen Tadahiro Izo carried originally belonged to the Sakamoto family, and nobody knows for certain how and when it came to be in the possession of Okada Izo.

The three common theories are:

(1) Sakamoto Gonpei, Ryoma's older brother, gave it to Izo.

I'm honestly not sure what to make of this theory. Gonpei was 24 years older than Izo and there seem to be no references that suggest he knew Izo well enough or had enough contact with him through family or some other connection to consider giving him a sword, especially not a nice heirloom blade.

(2) Sakamoto Ryoma received the sword from his family before he left Tosa and either gave or lent the sword to Izo, possibly when he helped Izo get the position of Katsu Kaishu's bodyguard.

This seems like a more likely theory.

Ryoma, who was two years older than Izo, had known Izo from childhood, although sources don't really support the idea that they were close friends.

They trained together at the same dojo and, in addition, Ryoma's family was distantly related to Takechi Hanpeita's family, so even outside the dojo, Ryoma might have met Izo in Takechi's company.

That said, it's definitely unlikely that Ryoma gave the sword to Izo when he helped him become Katsu Kaishu's bodyguard in 1863. That's because Izo was said to have chipped the tip of the blade during the assassination of Honma Seiichiro in 1862, after which time the blade was re-forged and shortened.

If Ryoma did give him the sword, it would have been in 1862 or even earlier. I think it would be most likely he gave the sword to Izo while they were both training in Edo, Izo at Shigakukan and Ryoma at Chiba Shusaku's dojo.

(3) Sakamoto Ryoma received the sword from his family before he left Tosa. He then gave the sword to Kawarazuka Shigetaro, who was a close friend, fellow member of the Kinnoto, and also the brother of Sakamoto Gonpei's first wife, Chino. Shigetaro later gave the sword to Takechi Hanpeita, the head of the Kinnoto, who gave it to Izo.

While convoluted, that also seems like a reasonable explanation, but it leaves the question why Shigetaro would give the sword to Takechi.

At any rate, if this is what happened, Izo might not even have known that the sword originally came from Ryoma's family. He might have thought it was a gift directly from Takechi.

[chaosverse-mainblog]

Meeting of the Immortals sneak peek

Hikage, now Shiran, had received a letter in the mail from Yoichi, now Keikichi, an hour ago. It was an invitation for him, Izuku, and Daigoro to meet up with him and the other users. Now that All For One had been defeated, Yoichi wanted to have all of the people that had Eon to discuss what happens now.

Shiran knew that things would get incredibly tense at the dinner. He had well braced himself for it. He just wished it wasn't in a formal and busy place. Not wanting to dwell on it, Shiran went to the kitchen to make some cocoa. When Izuku finally made it home Shiran handed him an invite.

"What's this for?" Izuku, now Kuryuu, asked.

[doglok]

名前はけいきち(keikichi)猫である がライブ配信⑱2024/9/15☀️ ねこの日常 #ねこのいる暮らし #cat 保護猫けいきち単独ライブです ྀི. via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYgegtrXWuE

[mooponto]

〈 White Collage 〉 by Keikichi Yamauchi architect and associates is a minimalist house aiming to provide a close relationship between its residents and the surrounding environment. The installed stainless steel sheets enable the dwellers to witness the seasons changing, oversee their children playing, and enjoy the sight of the pets playing in the park. Although the plot on which White Collage sits is not large, the spacious frontage makes up for it.

© Photographs by Koji Sakai

[okadaizoirl]

okay no i am gushing now. i am gushing here.

PERSONALITY

Cocky, loud, and even a bit bratty. Somewhat flirtatious, though this seems to only show itself towards men or entirely in jest. He seems to present himself as the premier swordsman, above even those in the Saber class due to his unbelievable skill. Easy to provoke into a fight, there are only a few things he hates that will spur him to kill. He hates being laughed at, or mocked. He hates being ignored or dismissed as unimportant. He hates being lied to. While his hatred of this does not burn a Command Spell upon transgression like Kiyohime, it is enough to enrage him. When enraged like this, he will even kill his own Master if they were the perpetrator. of course he hates being misgendered too but like, that's really a given? why would you have that much of a death wish, dude. that's literally asking for trouble.

MOTIVE/ATTITUDE TOWARD MASTER

His Master should be, first and foremost, either someone he respects and can get along with– Or another “Manslayer”. However, this does not refer to any known Manslayers active from his era. This is his way of referring to someone who appreciates horrific violence enacted upon another being to the same extent he does. Atop this, or perhaps in lieu of this, he wants a Master that only gives orders when absolutely necessary for both their life and his to be preserved. He wants a Master that respects him most of all.

HISTORY

This Izo is DFAB, or Designated Female At Birth. Born in the kitchen of the Okada household as the first child, he never saw himself as feminine even in the slightest. He ran around with neighborhood boys and saw himself as one with ease, yet bragged that he could not be downed by a kick to the groin, much to his friends' collective chagrin. His parents dismissed this behavior as typical for someone his age, even continuing to insist after his younger brother, Keikichi's, birth that they only had "one son". This was what caused him to almost be buried under his deadname if not for the intervention of a supportive party since the both of them were toddlers–

Sakamoto Ryoma.

Ryoma is said to have given Izo his new name as a child, as the young boy stuttered when trying to introduce himself and repeated "Yoshi" ("Alright") while trying to think. This led to him being dubbed Yoshifuru. Thanks to Ryoma's continued support, this Izo's deadname is truly lost to time, and he is eternally grateful for that. While growing up, Yoshifuru was first presented with the obstacle of developing breasts during puberty, but he solved this much like he tackled other problems: Far too directly. Biting on a rag soaked in alcohol while standing in a cold river one early March morning, he cut the excess flesh from his body with the tanto he would steal for his own use later on. This proved life-threatening for how much blood he lost, but he was found and saved by Ryoma's mother, Sakamoto Sachi. She was able to keep his circulation going after stitching his wounds and cauterizing them, then scolding him as she believed he would now never develop breasts.

"Good," he said as he stared at the hot pot cooking down for dinner, "then my work weren't for nothin'." Shocked but understanding, Sachi and Yoshifuru concocted the cover of the Okada family not wanting another son to grow up into a samurai at the time and thus lying about his gender, Keikichi being their erroneous choice on who would be able to take up the sword in the event of their father's death.

Yoshifuru practically lived at the Sakamoto household, often running from his own home to be there as his parents left him with a key to the front door's padlock and let him come and go as he pleased as they neglected him. This didn't cause any resentment for his birth parents as much as it caused emotional distance, even to the point of Izo not recognizing his own father's name when conversation turned towards the Okada family's history with being samurai.

At age 13, two years before his forelocks were cut and he would be named Izo, he kept his taste for blood that developed just two years earlier with his "DIY top surgery". Perhaps it was the feeling of cutting into flesh, perhaps it was the sight of river fish nibbling away at the tissue falling from his body, but his mind seemed to lean towards violence a bit more since then. He carved a wooden sword from solid oak all by himself and trained with it to the point of only stopping when he collapsed from exhaustion. He got in fights more often, aiming to make his opponent bleed somehow even with his bare fists. His first kill was when he was 16 years old. While the origin of the disagreement seems to change depending on who you ask, a fight escalated with frightening speed towards Izo strangling his victim, stabbing them multiple times, then disposing of the body in the river. When asked about this, he tried to claim his victim had drowned.

Yeah, that was a pretty hard sell.

However, it gained the attention of one Hanpeita Takechi, who was impressed by the brutality yet saw potential to refine it into a more precise and quiet tool for assassinating political opponents. Izo was recruited by Takechi at age 17, and whisked away to Edo to be taught the ways of the sword more formally. Izo's genius carried him far and could have carried him farther if not for his crippling impatience. He never became a true master at any sword style, quitting two weeks before graduating and thus never learning any secret arts. In his defense, however, they seemed wholly unnecessary as he was able to utilize the techniques he knew to be an unstoppable killing machine. When his childhood friend joined Hanpeita's cause alongside Izo, he was overjoyed. His only source of disappointment seemed to be Ryoma's comparative lack of talent with a sword, often refusing to spar with him with the claim that he's "no bully" and wouldn't be able to enjoy himself taking down such a weak opponent. However, this lack of talent seemed to be endearing to him, in a way. With Ryoma and his family being his advocate for almost his entire life, it was no wonder when he began to develop feelings for his friend.

While same-gender attraction was very commonplace in Japan still before the Meiji Restoration, Izo was never able to confess his feelings until one fateful night. Long, long after they originally joined the Tosa Imperialist Party, Ryoma began to see the many flaws in its approach towards a better Japan. He believed violence and war to be unnecessary unless there were no options for diplomacy. With this, he left, but not before a tearful Izo tried to convince him to stay. That was when Izo revealed his feelings for Ryoma as well, wanting a life together as the men who freed Japan from the Tokugawa Shogunate. Ryoma was touched, but did not fully reciprocate these feelings. He left, leaving behind a heartbroken and enraged Izo. Trying to escape this heartbreak, Izo took to Red Light districts more often. At first, he attempted to bed the Oiran he found there, but found himself unable to hold an attraction to them. As he fell apart in a heap of depression, the women listened to his troubles and offered their friendship instead of their bodies. Seven specific oiran accompanied him with every visit, a varying cast of colorful characters. One oiran even supposedly fell in love with Izo, which broke his heart even further as he couldn't reciprocate no matter how much he tried.

These women were his friends even to the day of his execution, in which they received a missive from him in jail detailing what he wanted for each of them going forward as well as pocket change to try to sustain them. It's believed that he also took up sex work alongside them, never fully undressing to keep his assigned gender at birth a secret to all but a handful of customers. Said customers occasionally wrote him raunchy missives, which he kept, but certainly not for any emotional attachment. One customer revealed his genitalia without his consent and treated him with disdain for it, leading to one of Izo's sloppiest and most brutal kills, which also married sex and violence in his mind.

Eventually, Izo was caught in an ambush that had him deported from Edo and sent back to Tosa. During this time, he lived as a vagrant, killing seemingly random people to squat in their homes and steal their money to stay at inns. This continued until he was arrested, then tortured for information on the upstart Tosa Imperialist Party. Many remaining in the party voted to poison him to prevent him from potentially confessing, and another key difference in this Izo's timeline is that Hanpeita agreed to this, but Izo sniffed out the poison in his greens and sprouts. When he learned that he was betrayed, he gave a long, rambling rant of a confession when tortured after that meal. It's said he even told lies to throw specific members of the Tosa Imperialist Party under the bus. He was executed on a sunny morning with a brilliantly clear sky, yet his haunting death poem told of his stormy anger and how it would persist.

"Like bubbles on the water, my devoted heart for you shall disappear."

Devotion amounted to nothing but heartbreak for Okada Izo, and thus, he remains closed off and hesitant, yet wanting so badly for that social vulnerability with maybe even just one person again. He refuses to forgive Ryoma not just for leaving, but being one of the first to break his devoted heart. Even so, it seems he still has a fondness for the man…

GOD I WANNA GUSH ABT MY TRANSMASC IZO SHIT CAN I? PLEASE? HERE'S SOME ART I'VE COMMISSIONED OF HIM ( credits to the artists:

@/grafaitedragon on twitter

@halbwang )

this is his summer alt costume thing design by Fai (grafaitedragon)

and here's the general ref sheet by ross (halbwang)!

[koorinohebi]

Kiomi vc: O-omaesan o mite kudasai. Ah, kakkoii. Kakkoii.

[black-cat-aoife]

Keikichi Osaka: The Ginza Ghost

Keikichi Osaka: The Ginza Ghost

Titel: The Ginza Ghost Author: Keikichi Osaka Although the Japanese form of Golden Age detective fiction was re-launched in the early 1980s as shin honkaku by Soji Shimada and Yukito Ajatsuji, the original honkaku dates from the 1930s and one of its pioneers was Keikichi Osaka. The Ginza Ghost is a collection of twelve of his best stories, almost all impossible crimes. Although the solutions are…