Ebi Domoto

Ebi Domoto is the Shicho (mayor) of the southern Hokkaido town of Tomakomai and a member of Clan Yoshida. He is one of dozens of influential nephews and nieces of General Hiroto Domoto, the highest ranking general in the land.

Although only 30 years old, Ebi Domoto is known as an ambitious and capable man. He matches polished court skills (he is famous for his poetry and calligraphy) with a reputation for being one of the best archers on the island. He is a small, slender man (5' 2" and about 110 pounds) and sensitive about his size. He is known to surround himself at public events with a bodyguard of four men as small or smaller than himself, all well regarded swordsmen (known privately to local wags at the Four Mice.)

If he leans one way or the other on the issue of the rogue Yoshida daimyos, he has given no indication whatsoever. By all appearances, he has been a cooperative and helpful host to the imperial troops in Tomakomai searching for the rogues and mapping the island's mountainous terrain.

He has a samurai's traditional disdain for both lawlessness and merchants, making him an particularly implacable foe of Clan Fukui and the local yakuza group, associated with the Kato-kai. He has been known to personally supervise the public executions of criminals, and has written poems in praise of such spectacles. He has a tendency (locally loathed) to close down the city's marketplace and hang or execute by archery criminals where business would normally be conducted, leaving the merchants to clean up the blood and viscera the next morning.