Kito Family

Led by its matriarch Naki Kito, this clan of subterraneans long dwelt in Byakuja Village. There they laid offerings before a Mongolian Death Worm that they took for the guardian Tsuchinoko, trying to fill its hunger and stop the local volcano from blowing. The clan stands as the lead antagonists of the Cursed House Arc and looms as a major menace throughout the Kintama Hunt Saga. Once the tale moves beyond the Typhoon Human Arc, during the Ultimate Yokai Saga, they slip into secondary antagonists and, for a short while, unwilling allies of the Family.

Back in old Byakuja Village, the clan offered up children to the worm lurking in the neighboring volcano, sure that the beast was the Tsuchinoko that kept eruptions at bay so long as its bottomless hunger stayed fed. That rite carried on for two centuries, and the original altar of sacrifice swelled into a house the family now leases to whomever they plan to offer next. The Enjoji family had been singled out for this end, but the scheme stalled after the parents landed in the hospital following a suicide attempt, which their son Jiji chalked up to a haunting spirit, prompting him to beg Seiko Ayase for an exorcism.

Across the Cursed House Arc, the Kitos caught Jiji leading Momo and Okarun to the house and moved to ambush them, finally herding the trio toward the worm's den, only to be pushed in themselves and swallowed by the Tsuchinoko. Once Momo parched the creature with sunlight, it spat them back out, and the volcano erupted just as Naki had dreaded. Momo recast the village legend as a garbled eruption warning instead of a holy decree, then turned the worm's dried husk into a hose to chill the magma with its phlegm. Furious at the supposed sacrilege, the family were halted by the priest Manjiro and the Evil Eye. Most ended up arrested, yet Naki got away, uncovered a batch of Death Worm eggs, raised one in secret, and swore to make Momo pay.

Naki Kito stands at the clan's head as matriarch and prime schemer, fueling its grudge against Momo. The male members are her sons, the ones who try the ambushes, while the women appear in the anime credits as Juriko, Junko, Jutemu, and Juju. In the Typhoon Human Arc, Naki and her sons rode a smuggled Tsuchinoko hatchling against the cryptid alongside Momo and Jiji, until a giant shark and a kick from the Evil Eye flung the entire family clear out to the moon.