Yamato

**Yamato** (ヤマト, *Yamato*), is both a fictional character and tritagonist from the *J-Stars' Fairy One Piece Tail* series created by Hiro Mashima and Eiichiro Oda. She is is the daughter of Kaido of the Four Emperors and refers to herself as a male by pronouns.

She self-proclaims to be Oden due to feeling of carrying his legacy with her. This profound admiration has led to the decision to embody everything related to Oden to the extent of proclaiming his gender as well, and hence is widely referred to as Kaido's son.

After a lifetime of mistreatment by her father, she adopted Oden's will to free Wano from her father's tyranny, allying herself with Luffy for it, and thus having a dream of leaving the Wano Country and Onigashima, in hopes to see the world, just as Oden long did.

"*One day I told my father "I want to be Oden Kozuki" and he clobbered me for it.*"

—Yamato.

## Appearance & Biography

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### Biography

Oden was the Great Daimyo of the Kuri region in Wano Country; for a brief time, he also served as a member of Whitebeard's Pirates and later Roger's Pirates. With a free-wheeling spirit, he was loved by his people. Ultimately, he was executed by Kaido of the Animal Kingdom Pirates. Catchphrase: "It's too cramped!"

### Appearance

Yamato is tall, being slightly over twice Luffy's height but not nearly as tall as Kaido. She has long, white hair that is bound between orange rods into a ponytail at the back, which fades into aqua green and then blue the further down it goes, and ends in rectangular locks similar to Kaido. Yamato also has large, orange eyes with prominent eyelashes, and wears gold hoop earrings on both ears and has red horns. Clothing-wise, she wears a pair of red hakama pants and sandals, and, much like Oden, wears a large purple and white nio-daisuki behind the back.

Yamato's current outfit is a sleeveless white garment with a diamond-shaped design on both sides and an indigo, wisp-patterned bottom half. This garment was originally a sleeved kimono with long white sleeves, but these were later ripped off, leaving the garment sleeveless and making it more form-fitting. Also, while in disguise, Yamato originally also wore a hannya mask, which has a wig with an extremely long and wild mane attached to the top and a long goatee attached to the bottom.

Around 3–4 years ago, Yamato wore a long-sleeved outfit similar to their current one, but with different symbols on the breast area. The symbols resemble an oden skewer.

* Hair Color: White, Aqua Green, Blue
* Skin Color: Not Known
* Eye Color: Orange
* Age: 28
* Birthday: November 3rd
* Height: Not Known
* Weight: Not Known
* Bounty: Not Known

## Personality

Yamato holds immense admiration for the legendary samurai Oden Kozuki, emulating every aspect of him, including his name, appearance, goals, and even his gender, reasoning that, since Oden was a man, then it was also necessary to become a man. She wishes to fulfill Oden's dream of reopening the borders of Wano Country. Due to this admiration of Oden, She often does things and considers certain actions based on assuming the identity of Oden himself. This led to her being considered delusional by Luffy, Ulti, Shinobu, and Momonosuke.

## Relationships

### Friends/Allies

* Luffy D. Monkey
* Natsu Dragneel
* Ace D. Portgas

## Powers and Abilities

Yamato is a very powerful warrior, with Black Maria noting that bringing Yamato back to Kaido's fortress after having escaped would be a difficult task.

Yamato appears to have eaten a Zoan-type Devil Fruit. The exact animal species is unknown as Yamato has never fully transformed; however, before being interrupted, Yamato's teeth transformed into fangs when the transformation began.

### Physical Abilities

Yamato possesses monstrous strength resembling Kaido, being capable of wielding a large and heavy kanabo and using it to knock out Ulti, an Ancient Zoan user and one of the Tobiroppo, with just one blow. Yamato was also able to physically match Luffy's strength with relative ease, even when the pirate increased his strength exponentially with Gear Second and Gear Third. When Yamato countered a punch from Luffy with a kick, the powerful collision destroyed much of the surrounding wall and ceiling and blew back the Beasts Pirates around them.

Luffy was even easily picked up and held with just one arm while running due to Yamato's stature. Yamato was later able to shatter the extremely tough armor and weaponry of the Beasts Pirates' Armored Corps with great ease.

Yamato is quite fast, being able to lunge forward with blinding speed to attack, as well as outrun members of the Beasts Pirates in pursuit, and eventually completely elude the pirates and escape to the attic with Luffy without anyone seeing them. Yamato also possesses tremendous durability, having emerged from being struck by multiple explosive bazooka blasts with only superficial bruises and cuts, though eventually began taking more serious wounds as the bazooka strikes continued.

### Haki

*Main article:* *Haki*
Yamato is a user of Armament Haki, as evidenced by her imbuing her hand and kanabo with it while preparing to attack Hatcha, resulting in a lightning-like effect. She can use this Haki to an advanced degree, being capable of projecting it a great distance forward and hitting faraway opponents with tremendous force with a simple kanabo swing.

### Weapons

Yamato wields a giant kanabo club much like Kaido, albeit studded and more slender, while Kaido's is spiked and a bit thicker. Coupled with Yamato's immense strength, the kanabo can wreak tremendous damage to objects and opponents with a single hit, and with Yamato's strength and Haki, it can be used to perform flying strikes that can even resemble energy blasts. In addition to the kanabo being a powerful blunt weapon, Yamato has masterful technique with it, being capable of moving it to counter Luffy's rapid attacks with little effort.

#### Techniques

The named techniques that are used by Yamato that involve her Weapon are as follows:

* **Thunder Bagua** (雷鳴八卦 *Raimei Hakke*; literally meaning "Thunderclap Eight Trigrams"):Yamato lunges forward at blinding speed and swings her kanabo horizontally to the right, hitting the target with tremendous force. The attack was first seen used against Ulti in her full-beast transformation, knocking her out instantly. In using the attack, Yamato takes after her father, as Kaido has used it as well. However, while Kaido uses only one hand to swing his kanabo, Yamato swings with both. Ulti considers this attack to only be half as powerful as Kaido's, and disdainfully calls it **Blunder Bagua** (|雷鳴四卦, *Raimei Yonke*; literally meaning "Thunderclap Four Trigrams) instead, but coughs blood at the same time, though the people around her pointed out that it still hurt her greatly.
* **Narikabura Arrow** (鳴鏑, *Nari Kabura*; literally meaning "Ringing Turnip"): Swinging the kanabo upward, Yamato unleashes a vertical energy projectile to hit opponents from below with great force. It was first used against Hatcha, and immediately knocked him unconscious upon striking him in the head. *Nari Kabura* is another term for *Kabura-ya* ("turnip-headed arrow"), arrows used by samurai which made a whistling sound when fired.

## History

### Past

#### Early Life

As a kid, Yamato told Kaido of the personal desire to become the great samurai Kozuki Oden. However, this resulted in Kaido violently opposing it by beating Yamato up. Some time later, Yamato was present at Oden's execution during the Legendary Hour twenty years before the events of the story, and was mortified by the sight. After the execution, Yamato rushed to Oden's Castle to save Momonosuke, but could only watch as Kaido threatened the boy.

Although angered and saddened by Oden's death at the hands of Kaido and Orochi, Yamato felt a burning passion rise, and after discovering Oden's logbook in Kuri, Yamato realized that someone needed to carry on Oden's will, and so began to emulate everything about Oden himself as to carry on his legacy. However, when Kaido learned of these intents, he put explosive shackles on Yamato to prevent any chance of escape from Onigashima.

At some point between two and five years ago, Kaido and his top subordinates were away from Onigashima on an expedition. During that time, Yamato met the pirate Ace D. Portgas when he came to the island to kill Kaido. After Ace did so much damage to Kaido's castle, Yamato decided to fight him because of boredom. During the scuffle, Yamato broke the dragon statue at the island's entrance to show disdain for Kaido. Ace then left a mark on the statue and took responsibility for breaking it. Afterwards, Yamato and Ace became acquainted.

Yamato had expressed the desire to go to sea with Ace and his crew, but because of the explosive shackles that threatened to blow up if Yamato had left, there was no choice but to remain behind. While drinking sake together, Ace told Yamato about Luffy and his dream. Before parting ways, Yamato gave Ace a vivre card. After some time, Yamato decided to wait for Luffy D. Monkey to come to Onigashima.

## Battles

### Canon

* Yamato vs. Ace D. Portgas (Draw)
* Yamato, Natsu Dragneel and Luffy D. Monkey vs. Ulti and Page One
* Yamato vs. Luffy D. Monkey and Natsu Dragneel
* Yamato vs. Ulti (Onigashima Live Floor)
* Yamato vs. Sasaki and armored corps

## Etymology

* "**Yamato**" (大和), meaning "Great Harmony", is an ancient name for Japan (originating from the Yamato Province) and can can also refer to the Yamato period of Japanese history, which lasted into the 8th century. Relating to that, Yamato is the dynastic name of the ruling Imperial House of Japan and further refers to the dominant ethnic group of Japan, the Yamato people. Otherwise:
	+ Yamato Takeru is a legendary Japanese prince of the Yamato dynasty, prominent in mythology.
	+ Yamato is the name of a prominent WWII-era Japanese battleship.
	+ Yamato nadeshiko is a phrase that refers to the idealized image of a Japanese female.
* Hannya, which Yamato's mask is based on, are well known in Japanese theatrical stage culture for representing characters who are the physical manifestation of twisted female souls.
* Yamato seems to be inspired by Oscar François de Jarjayes, from the shōjo manga *The Rose of Versailles*, who is a woman raised by her father as if she were a boy in order to succeed him as the commander of the Royal Guard at the Palace of Versailles.
	+ Additionally, in the author's comment, Oda talks about reading *The Rose of Versailles* for the first time and being surprised to find out Oscar was a woman.

## External links

* Yamato *Heroes Wiki*
* Yamato *One Piece Wiki*