Torasaburo

The creature took the form of a hulking tiger, its hide colored blue and crossed with black stripes, its eyes yellow, and its tail cut short. Since Kanjuro drew so poorly, just how much the thing actually looked like a tiger is open to doubt, and Kin'emon could not even tell what animal it was meant to be until somebody supplied its name.

Hardly anything is recorded about its temperament. The one trait it showed was dedication, since it kept hauling itself up Zunesha's leg no matter how brutal the ascent became.

After Kanjuro's earlier creation Nekozaemon dissolved in the eruption rain falling over Zou, he inked the tiger so it could bear him, along with Kin'emon and Bariete, up the elephant's enormous limb. It scaled the leg across the entire night and finally gained the surface, where it dropped off its riders and saw them on their way. Though strong enough to climb with two grown men on its back, that feat marked the edge of its power, and the beast was openly wheezing once it topped out. With its passengers gone, the tiger faded and resolved into a painting set just above the place where Ryunosuke had vanished. Its name reads roughly as tiger third son, marking both its species and its rank as the third figure Kanjuro drew for the journey, while its resting spot beside Ryunosuke recalls the old Japanese motif of pairing tigers with dragons.