Hakuba's Housekeeper

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| **Kashiko Shikibe** | |
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| **Profile** | |
| Japanese name: | 式部 鹿紫子   (Shikibe Kashiko) |
| Age: | 58[](#cite_note-1) |
| Gender: | Female |
| Occupation: | [Hakuba family](/wiki/Hakuba_family "Hakuba family")'s butler |
| **Statistics** | |
| First appearance: | Magic Kaito Manga: [Chapter 27](/wiki/Magic_Kaito_Volume_4#Dark_Knight "Magic Kaito Volume 4")   Magic Kaito 1412: [Episode 5](/wiki/A_Temptation_in_Scarlet "A Temptation in Scarlet") |
| Appearances: | Chapters: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") Movies: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") OVAs: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") Chapters: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") Episodes: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") Specials: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") Openings: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") Closings: (/wiki/Kashiko_Shikibe_Appearances "Kashiko Shikibe Appearances") |
| **Actors** | |
| Japanese voice: | [Reiko Suzuki](/wiki/index.php?title=Reiko_Suzuki&action=edit&redlink=1 "Reiko Suzuki (page does not exist)") (TV Special)   [Mika Doi](/wiki/index.php?title=Mika_Doi&action=edit&redlink=1 "Mika Doi (page does not exist)") (Magic Kaito 1412) |
| *[Magic Kaito](/wiki/Magic_Kaito "Magic Kaito")* character | |
**Kashiko Shikibe** (式部 鹿紫子 ,*Shikibe Kashiko*[?](/wiki/Help:Japanese "Help:Japanese")) is a minor character in *[Magic Kaito](/wiki/Magic_Kaito "Magic Kaito")* and *[Detective Conan](/wiki/Detective_Conan "Detective Conan")*.
## Contents
* [1 Appearance and personality](#Appearance_and_personality)
* [2 Appellations](#Appellations)
* [3 Plot overview](#Plot_overview)
* [4 Name origin](#Name_origin)
* [5 Trivia](#Trivia)
* [6 See also](#See_also)
* [7 References](#References)
## Appearance and personality[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Kashiko_Shikibe&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Appearance and personality")]
Shikibe is an older woman with light-colored, curled hair and a hawk nose, which suggests some degree of non-Japanese ancestry. She is also fairly tall, as she sits level with 5'11" [Saguru Hakuba](/wiki/Saguru_Hakuba "Saguru Hakuba") when driving a car. In her only visible appearance, she wears a suit coat over a black turtleneck and glasses on a thin chain. Even though she appears stern, she is in fact quite affectionate towards her master and takes care of him lovingly.
However, later, she is seen to be much shorter, being about one foot shorter than her master, who has to crouch to be at the same level as her.
## Appellations[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Kashiko_Shikibe&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Appellations")]
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| Picture | Name | What they call Kashiko Shikibe | What Kashiko Shikibe calls them |
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|  | [Saguru Hakuba](/wiki/Saguru_Hakuba "Saguru Hakuba") | Nanny (*Baaya*) | Young Master Saguru (*Saguru-botchama*)   Young Master (*Botchama*) |
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## Plot overview[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Kashiko_Shikibe&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Plot overview")]
Shikibe first appears in the Twilight Mansion Case, which marked Saguru Hakuba's first appearance as well. She drove him to the Mansion and remained hidden nearby in case he needed help. They marked the top of her car with a large 'X' so Saguru's hawk Watson could find her and relay messages between them.[](#cite_note-2)
She is also mentioned in the Detective Koushien. However, this time Saguru has come alone and told her not to wait for him.
The housekeeper also appears in the Dark Knight case in *[Magic Kaito](/wiki/Magic_Kaito "Magic Kaito")*. She is driving Saguru to the Kaitou Kid heist, but [Kaito](/wiki/Kaito_Kuroba "Kaito Kuroba") tricks her into taking a route right through a traffic jam which slows their progress, so Saguru gets out of the car and runs the rest of the way.
Later, during the Green Dragon heist, she serves tea to her master and is allowed a ski vacation in Canada, which she enjoyed quite well. However, her master later joined her thinking she was kidnapped, which was a ploy by Kid to send him away from the heist.
## Name origin[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Kashiko_Shikibe&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Name origin")]
Her full name is revealed in Magic Kaito chapter 37. Like other characters in *Magic Kaito*, her name contains a color. The kanji 紫 (shi) in "Kashiko" means "purple". Her name may come from [Murasaki Shikibu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu "wikipedia:Murasaki Shikibu") (紫 式部), famous Japanese poet from the XIth century.
## Trivia[[edit](/wiki/index.php?title=Kashiko_Shikibe&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Trivia")]
* The word 'baaya' means either 'old housekeeper' or 'wet nurse'.