Eizen Yamada Asaemon Husbando

Yamada Asaemon Eizen was the 1st rank Asaemon of the Yamada clan. After the shogun called for death row convicts to acquire the Elixir of Life from the dangerous island believed to be Shinsenkyō, in exchange for a pardon for their past crimes, Eizen joined in the expedition team as one of the Yamada Asaemon monitors and was assigned to keep watch over the criminal Rokurōta. Eizen had long spiky red hair and wears a large eyepatch that covered his missing left eye. He wore a dark haori underneath the standard attire of a Asaemon, which is a white robe with a bell tied to the left collar and a hakama held together by a waist-cord. When he was younger, Eizen's hair was much shorter and wore a different eyepatch at the time. Eizen had great pride for the Yamada clan and believed that no task was impossible for them when it came to executing convicted criminals, even his assigned criminal Rokurōta who was known to be impervious to all sorts of weapons. As an executioner, Eizen acted professional in his line of work as he knew that defiling the execution grounds by trying to bring pain to the condemned with his blade would defile the magistrate and followed the Yamada clan's ideal way of ending lives by cutting his victims painlessly, a concept which he tried to impart to a young Shugen. To this extent, he found it atrocious at how Gabimaru ruthlessly dealt with the criminals in the death match for the expedition to Shinsenkyō. Eizen was also kind and caring as he promised to look after Shugen when he was young, which brought a great influence to him in the present. Like a few of his fellow clansmen, Eizen believed that women in the Yamada clan should not follow the path of a samurai, which caused him to have a conflicting relationship with Sagiri. He was fully aware of Sagiri's fear of taking the life of another and tried using this to discourage her from taking on the shogun's mission. Eizen also bluntly told her to her face that as a woman she was not suited to become an executioner and that her place was to live a comfortable life within the household. Despite his disapproval, Eizen did try to look after her as a fellow clansman as he attempted to protect her from a few convicted criminals that targeted her (though this may have been because of his doubt that she could handle killing them).