Fugetsu Omusubi

Heavyset and towering, Omusubi drew immediate attention from his oversized head, modeled to echo the rice ball that inspired his name. Dark cosmetic shading ringed both his eyes and his mouth, while a small mark, a dot wrapped by a half ring, sat inked on his chin. Shoulder-length hair fell thick and dark around him, bound at the crown by a cord whose front ends jutted skyward. He completed the look with a kimono draped beneath a flowing cape.

Omusubi carried himself with the same rigid honor shown by Shimotsuki Ushimaru and Uzuki Tempura, the two lords jailed beside him. Even starving, he would not raise a blade over a meal, instead handing the food to Kaidou's boy Yamato without hesitation. His devotion to the Kouzuki line never wavered. He would sooner perish than swear himself to Kurozumi Orochi or Kaidou, and he ultimately chose to die fighting the latter while buying Yamato the chance to live and serve the prophecy yet to come.

For years Omusubi ruled Kibi as a lord answering to shogun Kouzuki Sukiyaki. That order collapsed when Orochi seized the shogunate and executed the heir Kouzuki Oden, then summoned every daimyo and demanded their submission. The lords rose in revolt instead and were crushed by Orochi's pirate ally Kaidou and the Beasts Pirates. Captured with Ushimaru and Tempura, Omusubi was confined to a cave on Onigashima until despair forced their surrender.

Later Kaidou tossed his young son Yamato into the same prison for claiming Oden's identity, then set a cruel test: a single bowl of food and weapons to fight over it. The samurai instead surrendered the meal to the boy, true to their code. The three lords grew fond of Yamato, and on learning he carried Oden's logbook, they eagerly helped him study it. After ten days with Kaidou apparently leaving them to rot, the warriors resolved to break free, free Yamato, and mount one last charge. As a skilled swordsman wielding a lone katana, Omusubi joined Ushimaru and Tempura in slicing through the massive stone sealing their cell, and the group went to face the pirate, presumably meeting their end there. The anime additionally shows him coating his sword in Armament Haki during the escape, a non-canon detail.