Iori Okkotsu

Iori is a tall man whose long black hair is worn loosely, and his eyes carry a look of constant exhaustion. His features closely mirror those of his father.

In his wedding portrait he is dressed in a traditional black haori layered over a paler kimono. For everyday wear, he tends to appear in a plain, traditionally styled kimono.

Senior members of the Gojo Clan recall Iori as earnest and diligent, traits he shared with his father. That very diligence proved his ruin, however, as he carried the heavy conviction that his own generation of sorcerers, and the one coming after, had fallen far short of the strength their parents commanded. Believing it fell to him to fortify the next generation, he felt his purpose complete once his daughter was born inheriting the Ten Shadows Technique, and he disappeared soon afterward.

Yuta and Maki brought Iori into the world in 2031, and he later wed Mifuyu Okkotsu, the couple having a son, Tsurugi, in 2069. Shortly before his second child arrived, he met with Yuji Itadori; the substance of their talk is unknown, though Yuji answered with "It doesn't matter" at one point, an exchange a Gojo Clan maid happened to witness and later recount. A year on, immediately following the March 18 birth of his daughter Yuka, Iori vanished. His absence became a raw subject for his parents and his wife, who would not discuss him even when pressed by Tsurugi, the son who grew intensely curious about the father he never knew. Long after, while scolding her children for their recklessness, Yuka for concealing her illness and dueling Dabura Karaba, and Tsurugi for heading off solo to Tokyo for a fight with Marulu Val Vol Yelvori, Mifuyu told them how proud she was to have brought them into the world, adding that their grandparents, and most likely their father too, surely felt the same.