Bushida Family

The **Bushida Clan** (ぶしだ いちぞく), or more commonly referred to as the *Bushida Family*, is a major family within the Jujutsu World and the descendants of the great *Tamuramaro Sakanoue*, they are considered a powerful family as well as the governors of the Island of Hokkaido. The family's main household is located in the Hokkaido prefecture.

## Description

The Bushida Family 武士道 (ブシダ家), *Bushida-Ka* descendants of Tamuramaro Sakanoue, the vengeful spirit of an Shogun of the Heian Period. Due to this and the powerful cursed techniques passed down through their clan, they are known and feared as a powerful family. The Bushida Family also have great political prominence in the jujutsu society, and they are tied with the Ryūji Family as the most powerful family in northern japan. The two families have had a feud between them that has lasted for more than 500 years.

They are also greatly respected for being the family that slayed the Demon-God Ōtakemaru and has been the family responsible of defending the remains, mainly his horns and head, ever since.
They have been dubbed the guardian family of the north and the clan is rather meticulous at their duties.

The Bushida genes are rather dominant, resulting that almost anyone born from at Bushida family will more then likely posses the Bushida strength that follows.

The family greatly value strength and will respect any decently powerful sorcerer, whether that strength comes from powerful cursed techniques, large amounts of cursed energy or through heavenly restrictions, just being competent is enough.

The Bushidas are on relatively bad terms with the *Zenin Family*, because of the latter's rather shallow view on the strength of a sorcerer and that they themselves also thinks of the Bushidas as *second-rate sorcerers* because of their reliance on brute strength.

### Location

The Family has bases located in multiple locations in the northern parts of Japan, with their main household being located in Shikotsu-Tōya National Park.
The main base resembles a giant village, inhabited with hundreds of people, that is built in a traditional Japanese architectural style. The "village" is separated in mainly four sections.

### Economics

As befitting of the most powerful family in northern japan, as well as one of the most powerful jujutsu families in the entire country, the Bushida's posses lots of economical power. From simple capital to owning powerful cursed object, weapons and other valuables, the Bushida's are well endowed in both money and resources. They are one of the main benefactors of Hokkaido's local Jujutsu High and is on of the reasons to why the School can afford running their large facilities, in exchange for their donations the school regularly trades information about the other schools, as well as the other sorcerer families, with the Bushida's.

Their main source of income comes from their members work as jujutsu sorcerers but the Bushida family also branches out in several other fields that do not necessarily handle curses.

* **Hospital Branch**: Because of the family's Inherited Technique, the well known *Reverse Cursed Body*, a lot of the family's member has access to Reverse Cursed Techniques. The family has open up many facilities spread out in both the Hokkaido prefecture as wells as the Tōhoku Region, in these facilities they take care of both sorcerers and non sorceress alike and has grown exceptionally fast since they opened up to the non jujutsu society in 2010. A lot of this branches members can be hired by jujutsu sorcerers to accompany them on missions. Thanks to this branch great contribution to the jujutsu society the mortality rate of sorcerers has gone down.

* **Security Branch**: One of their many branches include their *Security & Bodyguard Firm*, a very popular part of the family that specializes in the protection of non sorcerers, they are usually hired by high ranked politicians or other people with similar positions but can be hired by pretty much anyone as long as they offer the right amount of money.
This branch is where most of the family's weaker members can be found, because the branch main focus does not lay in exorcising curses, but instead the handling of normal people. Most of the members are *Grade 4* sorceress with one or two *Grade 3* supervising each group/squad. They work almost exclusively up in the northern parts of Japan but can comply to working in the more southern part if they are paid enough.

### Politics

Second only to the *Three Great Sorcerer Families* in the Jujutsu world, the Bushida's hold great sway over any matter that revolves around Jujutsu.
The Bushida's has possessed strong political prominence in the northern areas of japan, especially Hokkaido, ever since their founding in the latter years of the Heian Period.
They do not only have great influence over the jujutsu world, but thanks to their great contributions to the non jujutsu society as well as their strong connections and relations to the political leaders and military commanders of Japan, the Bushida's also has a firm foot in the world of normal humans.

* **Hokkaido Region**: Even though they are not the public leaders/rulers of the Hokkaido prefecture they are the ones controlling the entire region. Ever since the Bushida family first set foot in the region they have been growing in both economical and political power to the point where they were granted the entire island by one of the emperors of the Muramachi Period. Ever since then they have been dutifully govern the entire prefecture.

* **Ryūji Family**: This family is the only one equal to the Bushida's in power in northern japan. In an attempt to stop the feud between the two families that has been going on for centuries they had an arranged marriage between the Bushida family head's third son, Oden Bushida, and Ryūji family head's fifth daughter, Asui Jūryoku. The two families now holds a great connection in form of the Special Grade Sorcerer, the child of Oden and Asui, that shares the blood of both families.

* **Hokkaido Jujutsu High**: The Bushidas are the schools biggest benefactor's and keeps very close ties with them. Several of the family's sorcerer has studied there.

### Traditions

The Bushida Family is a giant clan, with hundreds of members, that have been living in Hokkaido for generations. They are one of the oldest families still active, having their roots in the Heian Period, and has an extremely rich history filled with special events and traditions.

* **Founder's Festival**: A festival held once a year that celebrates the founding of the family. The festival lasts about a week and is filled with contests, competitions and massive amounts of food. The festival begins with the current family head holding a speech, mostly reciting the history behind the family's establishment, that then follows by what the Bushidas calls *The First Feast*. A certain part of the family's *Cursed Warehouse* gets open to the public during the festival, showcasing several artifacts and other cursed objects with ties with the family's history.
Towards the end of the festival, the three last days, a giant tournament will be held where Bushida sorcerers will get the chance to show themselves. If a sorcerer does exceptionally well they have the chance to be offered a higher position in the clan.

* **The Hokkaido Feast**: A giant feast held every year to celebrate the family's official takeover of the Island of Hokkaido.

## History

The Bushida's is a family that has existed for multiple centuries, with their lineage having roots as far back as the later years of the Heian Period. The bloodline is shrouded in a rich history. The first recorded notable member of the family to have ever appeared was coincidentally the family progenitor, as well as the creator of the family's prized Inherited Technique, Tamuramaro Sakanoue, an extremely powerful sorcerer that was an shogun during the Heian Period and upon his death, year 811, turned into a *Vengeful Cursed Spirit*.

As a Shogun Tamuramaro was an close aid, counsellor and friend to Japan's 52nd emperor, Emperor Saga, they would often spend time together, drinking tea and playing shogi in the Imperial Palace.

Tamuramaro was a sorcerer famous for his incredible strength and fantastic leadership skills, and was known as the sorcerer that put an end to the *Demon-God* named Ōtakemaru. Because of his contribution in the subjugation of the powerful cursed spirit, Tamuramaro was promised a large patch of land, as well as an giant mansion, up in Hokkaido by the Emperor. The land, and mansion, granted to him became the ancestral place to the Bushida family and is currently where their main household is located.
As time passed Tamuramaro and his descendants made many more achievements and accomplishments, growing in both prestige and might. They family grew at a ridiculous speed and by the year of 1011 they changed name to the *Bushida Family* and the year following that they were recognized as major family, not just in jujutsu society.

By the time of the Muromachi Period the family had grown to the level that they were considered the de facto rulers of the island of Hokkaido, recognized by the current emperor because of their contribution to Japan, as well as some hints of fear, they were officially granted the right to govern the entire region.

## Appearance

The Bushida family members are on the bigger side, being rather tall and having muscular bodies, at least when compared to the average Japanese person. The men usually stands between 178 cm - 190 cm while the woman at 168 cm - 178 cm.
They usually posses dark colored hair, coming in different shades of black and brown.

## Powers and Abilities

The Bushidas possess incredibly strong life-forces, as such, they have longer lifespans and likewise age slower than the other families. They are feared as ferocious warriors with incredible physique and the ability to keep on fighting even with mortal wounds.

Even though the Bushidas are extremely hard to kill and posses strong physics they are usually lacking in cursed technique. The family excels at close quarter combat but are lacking in variety and in long distance fights. Their main tactic in battle is to close the distance between them and their opponent as fast as possible before engaging in physical combat.

### Inherited Technique

The members of the Bushida Family has the chance of being born with the unique *Reverse Cursed Body* inherited technique, a technique that makes the users body a breeding ground for positive energy and grants them a much stronger body constitution than the average Bushida.
The "*Reversed Cursed Body*" grants the user an healing factor akin to that of *cursed spirits* that also enables them to survive and endure much more severe injuries while likewise able to recover from injuries and exhaustion with much greater efficiency in short periods of time.

The technique gives the user automatic access to *Reverse Cursed Technique*. How strong of an healing factor or how much positive energy a user of this technique have can vary greatly from person to person, Yūdai, for example, is seen as an super prodigy even among the Bushida and has a heling factor equal to that of an Special Grade Cursed Spirit but he is not very good at using the positive energy externally, while Sadao has a rather weak healing factor but is able to heal other to a much higher extent than Yūdai.

## List of Cursed Objects & Tools

The reason why *Dawn & Dusk* is considered as a single cursed tool is because of their unique traits, the daggers are unable to travel too far apart from each other and they are unable to be wielded by two sorcerers at once. The daggers are made out of Ōtakemaru's two largest fang that *Tamuramaro* were successful of retrieving.

## Trivia

* The character Tamuramaro Sakanoue is based on a shōgun of the Heian Period that bared the same name.
* *Bushi* means "Warrior, Samurai" and *Da* means "Rice Paddy, Field"

* English is not my first language so spelling mistakes are bound to happen.