"Kichiboushi"

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 * Open-World NPCs
* Bake-Danuki

**"Kichiboushi"** is an open-world NPC that appears in the World Quest *Tanuki-Bayashi in the Forest* in Series Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual and can be found on Ioroi's head afterwards. He cannot be interacted with.

According to Ioroi, "Kichiboushi" will be his successor as "Hidden Protector of the Grove"; in the event Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas, the Traveler and Paimon assist in his training.

## Profile

"Kichiboushi" is a bake-danuki who gave Ioroi company. He was sealed alongside many of his kin by Kamuna Harunosuke; however, as Harunosuke did not properly seal all of the bake-danuki away, some of them were able to escape their confinement, "Kichiboushi" being one of them. During the events of cleansing the Sacred Sakura, Ioroi has "Kichiboushi" bring the Traveler and Paimon bring them to the corrupted Sakura roots underneath Chinju Forest.

Some time afterwards, Paimon and Traveler decided to visit Ioroi on a whim. Ioroi, remarking on the other lands he saw prior to his petrification and that he had no knowledge of them, decided to have "Kichiboushi" accompany the two outside Inazuma as he was excited to play with them again and wanted to train more. When the Traveler remarked that they wanted to talk with "Kichiboushi" during their travels, Ioroi gave them a bake-danuki feast so they could understand what "Kichiboushi" was saying. The training mostly consisted of taking "Kichiboushi" around various places across Mondstadt and Liyue.

At the end of the trip, "Kichiboushi" was brought back to Chinju Forest and promised to uphold and remember what the Traveler and Paimon had taught him.

### Appearance

"Kichiboushi" is a lighter-colored variant of the typical bake-danuki. Unlike other bake-danuki, he has a reddish-orange leaf upon his head. He has a green patterned cape tied around his neck. His belly is a pale shade of beige, and his hands and feet are black. His inner face and ears are a dark brown, with his inner face having white markings around the sides.

## Quests and Events

### World Quests

* Sacred Sakura Cleansing Ritual
	+ Tanuki-Bayashi in the Forest

### Events

* Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas
	+ Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas
	+ Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas: Blazing Poetry
	+ Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas: One Hundred Sights of Dihua
	+ Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas: Snowswept Fairytale
	+ Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas: Soliloquy of Distant Island Peaks
	+ Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas: The Wonders of Adeptal Amber
	+ Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas: Two Cities' Recommendations
	+ Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas: Wanderer's Appraisal

## Gallery

Version 2.4 "Fleeting Colors in Flight" Trailer - Genshin ImpactImage in Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas Event
## Other Languages

1. ↑ **Japanese:** The kanji for *bou* in Kichiboushi is normally supposed to be read as *hou*, but it was likely romanized as *bou* as a result of *Rendaku*. Also, an alternative reading of 吉法師 is *Kippoushi*, the childhood name of Oda Nobunaga.

## Change History

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