Bungo

Age and hard living show plainly on Bungo, a frail-looking man with gaps where several teeth used to be. His crown is bald, but long strands of dark hair spill down on either side of his head. He dresses in a pale kimono beneath a light jacket patterned with diamonds.

As a man who sets fires for profit, Bungo is destructive and amoral, having torched occupied buildings and bought his way out of trouble while scheming with Bongo and Bingo. He once prized his riches above all, yet proved gullible enough to be talked into handing every coin away. Ruin and despair drove him to attempt killing the courtesan who tricked him. Stuck now in impoverished Ebisu Town, he stays bitter and rude toward its people, offering no thanks even for Tonoyasu's kindness.

Thirteen years before the present, Bungo robbed graves with Bingo and Bongo until Kawamatsu and Onimaru halted their attempt to plunder the tombs of Ringo. Back in his Flower Capital days, he ran an arson racket: Bingo posed as a priest and Bongo as a lumber dealer, the trio using the blazes to fatten their businesses while bribes to city officials kept the law away. His wealth let him do as he pleased and conceal it, and as an arsonist he must be able to start and direct a destructive fire. When attacking Komurasaki he carried a knife, but handled it so poorly that her guard cut him down at once.

His downfall arrived when the oiran Komurasaki set her sights on him, suggesting she would move in with him should he buy out her freedom. Bungo emptied his entire fortune to secure it, then discovered the whole thing was a ruse and was left destitute. Later, when she appeared at Orochi's banquet inside Orochi Castle, the three men ambushed her in revenge, only to be cut down by her guard and humiliated as they lay defeated. The Flower Capital police then seized the moneyless men and exiled them to Ebisu Town, where they treated the residents with open hostility.