She is an employee at Aoiya and is usually called "Masukami." She always wears her hair tied back and skillfully uses circular shuriken as her weapon. Like Hannya and Misao Makimachi, she is a practitioner of Oniwabanshu-style martial arts and possesses enough strength to easily handle elite-level regular soldiers under Shishio’s command. Masukami shows a gentle side even to enemies, but among the staff, she is known as the responsible one, sometimes scolding Nenji Kashiwazaki when he gets drunk at parties.
In the first anime adaptation, under Nenji Kashiwazaki’s orders, she goes together with Aoshi Shinomori and Oumime from Kyoto to Tokyo to bring Misao Makimachi back. On this occasion, she enjoys a conversation among women together with Misao Makimachi, Oumime, Kaoru Kamiya, Megumi Takani, Tae Sekihara, and Tsubame Sanjou. In the same adaptation, like Oumime, she falls in love at first sight with Seijuro Hiko.
In the revised illustrations of Volume 22 of the "Kanzenban" edition, the orientation of her headband is changed to match the other two, and her hair is depicted with a slight wave.
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