Izumo no Okuni

Izumo no Okuni (, Izumo no Okuni, Lit. "Okuni of Izumo") is a character featured in Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan!. She is based on the real-life person of the same name, a Japanese actress believed to have invented kabuki theater.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
=== Personality ===
Okuni is an ambitious theater actress and dancer who has been striving to create an entirely new form of performance that combines both traditional Japanese dance with storytelling.
== Involvement ==
=== Ryu ga Gotoku: Kenzan! - 1605 ===
During the substory Izumo no Okuni, Okuni is preparing for her next performance at a theater in Rakugai when Kiryu Kazumanosuke barges into her theater's backstage area, fleeing from some bounty hunters who recognized him as the wanted criminal, Miyamoto Musashi. Feeling sorry for the man, she decides to help him give his pursuers the slip by lending him a costume and by painting his face with dramatic make-up so that he'll be harder to recognize.
Unfortunately for Kiryu, the bounty hunters barge into the backstage just as Okuni is finishing his make-up and recognize him. Kiryu slips out of a nearby curtain and finds himself out on the stage, in front of a large audience. His pursuers get on-stage after him and Kiryu proceeds to fight them using the only weapon he has to hand: a pink parasol. During the fight, his moves with the parasol and his style of fighting give Okuni an idea for the new style of performance she'd been trying to create: A type of dance which uses large, bombastic movements that are nonetheless incredibly precise and controlled, like those of a martial artist, but for the purpose of dance rather than combat.
After Kiryu beats the men, Okuni thanks him for helping inspire her and asks him to come back to perform at her theater once she's come up with some choreographies for him to perform.
Category: Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan! Characters
Category: Historical Figures