Yamada Asaemon Sagiri

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**Yamada Asaemon Sagiri** (山(やま)田(だ)浅(あさ)ェ(え)門(もん) 佐(さ)切(ぎり), *****Yamada Asaemon Sagiri*****?) is a main character in the fan-made series **Universal Warriors**.

Sagiri is the 12th rank Asaemon of the Yamada clan, as well as the daughter to the former clan's leader, Yamada Asaemon Kichiji. She is the deuteragonist of *Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku*.

After the shogun called for death row convicts to acquire the Elixir of Life from an island believed to be Shinsenkyō in exchange for a pardon for their past crimes, Sagiri recruited Gabimaru to be a part of the expedition team and was put in charge of acting as his monitor until the mission was complete.

## Personality

When performing her job as an executioner, Sagiri generally displays a stoic and serious demeanor, as she possesses a very high sense of duty when given a task. When she acted on her role as an inspector, Sagiri made sure Gabimaru answered all her questions even if he was not clothed or if it was during one of his death sentences, which made her have to constantly tell the magistrate and his men to hold off on their next attempts at executing him. After becoming Gabimaru's monitor, she boldly made it clear that she refused to allow him to do as he please on the island and made sure to keep watch over him at all times. Another great example of Sagiri's serious attitude was when she aimed to give Gabimaru and Mei a proper bath, viewing it as an "operation" even though it was not required of her as the criminal's monitor. As noted by Kishō, Sagiri is a stickler for upholding the rules, as she kept the bindings on her assigned criminal even though the other Yamada Asaemons knew that the rules would only hinder progress on the mission. She can however allow herself to bend the rules a little, as she overlooked Gabimaru's attempt to kill her. She is also able to accept certain unfortunate events that have fallen; though it will take a while for her to allow the situation to seek in.

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While dedicated in her duties as a both a samurai and an executioner, Sagiri lacks the mental state to take a life without putting any fear or hesitation into her blade, a flaw that she is greatly criticized by her clansmen, on top of her gender, given their principles to execute the condemned painlessly by ridding themselves of this emotion. Upon analyzing Gabimaru's behavior after watching him commit murder, Sagiri learned from him that she must bear the weight of the lives she has taken like the shinobi does and accept her fear and doubt instead of trying to overcome it. Come the shogun's mission, Sagiri soon realized that this way of thinking ultimately became the key to her survival on Kotaku.

> "*Strength…weakness…and doubt. They make me what I am.*"
> ― Sagiri following the Middle Way during her fight against Rien.
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Most prominently, Sagiri is noted to be a person who stays true to herself. Despite being subjected to gender-based discrimination in the Yamada clan, even by her own father, Sagiri strives to follow the path of a samurai and not adhere to the clan's traditional customs no matter what her clansmen may think of her. As such, she carries a belief that a person should choose what they want to be in life regardless of the identity they are born with. Though she speaks to her clansmen with respect, Sagiri is not afraid to stand up for herself by stating her convictions. She has also come to accept her own shortcomings, such flaws being her fears and doubts as a samurai. Due to this, as well as her disregard for gender-based roles, Sagiri's way of life is seen as leaning towards the Middle Way, which has proven to greatly help her overcome difficult obstacles. When coming to accept both her strength, weakness, and even her doubt from within, Gabimaru had noted that Sagiri was stronger than him when engaged in battle. Sagiri also stated to Gabimaru that embracing ones true feelings is not a weakness but instead it is where the true strength comes.

Sagiri is also a very good-natured person who is polite, kind, and caring towards others. Despite the fact that she is well-aware that a few of her fellow clansmen view her as being unworthy of becoming a samurai, Sagiri speaks to them with respect and became sadden after the ones who were tasked on the mission had died. After Mei was preparing to take a bath, Sagiri kindly took the liberty to wash her clean, an act that the girl dearly appreciated. When Hōko's head was severed from his body, Sagiri expressed her relief that he was still alive and willingly carried him after defeating Mu Dan. From her experience as an executioner, Sagiri is capable of understanding the feelings of others from within their hearts, which could allow her to show empathy even towards criminals. Through this trait, Sagiri realized that Gabimaru was not truly an evil person and was able to show genuine concern for his well-being.

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Though she takes matters seriously, Sagiri does possess a sense of humor, as she is one of the rare few who finds Shion's puns about his eyesight to be funny. She is also one to make puns herself, which she credits Shion as being her influence, having told Gabimaru that in the end she "executed" her initial role of being partnered up with him after beheading the convict to free him from Arborification.

## Character Design

Sagiri is a young woman with long brown hair that she keeps in a ponytail using a very long ribbon. Her frontal hairs fall across her face as bangs and has two very long front strands that fall down to her robe. She is quite tall, as her height is 172 cm. (5 feet 8 inches), making her one of the tallest female characters in the series. As an Asaemon she wears the standard attire, which is a white robe with a red lining running down the collars, a hakama with a single red band at the left gusset that is held together with a red corset (instead of a red waist cord), which holds her katana at her left hip, a funerary bell tied to a red piece of cloth at the center of her collar, a gauntlet on her left arm, and sandals. When prepared to execute her intended targets, or go into battle, Sagiri takes the time to use her tasuki to hold her sleeves as to not have them become an interference.

After taking on the task of destroying one of the Banko's tandens, Sagiri procures shinobi equipment from the fallen Iwagakure shinobi taken down by Jikka and started to wear a headband, along with adding another gauntlet and a second sword. She also switches to wearing shinobi footwear and has her hakama tucked into a pair of gaiters around her lower legs.

After a year passed, Sagiri wears a striped robe, being held together with a dark obi, a haori, and sandals. She also carries along a kasa and a walking stick.

## Story

### Original

Sagiri was born as the daughter to the head of the Yamada clan, Yamada Asaemon Kichiji. When she was young, Sagiri watched as her father skillfully decapitated a condemned performer with a single swing of his sword and, from that day on, became inspired to gain the same level of skill with a sword. Sagiri also made the decision to involve herself in her clan's trade instead of living a normal, quiet life, believing that it was unavoidable since the clan's association with death follows every member regardless of which path they choose to take. It was because of her being born into the infamous clan of executioners that Sagiri also faced bullying from children her age. As she began her training on how to wield a sword, Sagiri was looked down on by her fellow Yamada members, as well as her father, for the fact that she is a female following the path of a samurai.

Despite the harsh treatment she faced, Sagiri managed to earn her name as a Yamada Asaemon and a ranking with the help of Yamada Asaemon Shugen, which she was grateful for. While having gained the skills needed to become an execution, Sagiri found herself unable to handle the burden of ending the life of her victims during her execution duties, which flawed her sword skills.

## Relationships

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## Trivia

* *"Sa"* (佐, "") means "assistant, help", and *"-giri"* (切, "") means "cut".
* Sagiri ranked 2nd place in the manga's 1st Character Popularity Poll with 2399 votes.
* In the *Jigokuraku Fashion Review* of Volume 1, Sagiri's attire received 2 out of 3 stars.
* Sagiri is a collector of ukiyo-e and senjafuda from kabuki actors.
* According to Fuchi, Sagiri has a candy stash hidden in her room.
* Presumably, Sagiri is the only known person alive that knows Gabimaru's real name.
* On Twitter, after being asked by a fan on whether Sagiri and Yuzuriha are in a relationship, or if they had developed any romantic feelings for each other, Yūji Kaku replied answering that "GOD ONLY KNOWS."

## External Links

* Yamada Asaemon Sagiri on the *Hell's Paradise* Wiki
* Yamada Asaemon Sagiri on the *HEROES* Wiki

## References

1. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 1, page 7-8
2. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 1, page 13
3. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 3, page 6-7
4. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 18, page 7
5. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 21, page 16
6. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 22, page 4
7. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 26, page 11
8. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 12, page 14
9. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 2, page 31-33
10. ↑ *Jigokuraku* Chapter 1, page 34
11. ↑ Yamada Asaemon Dōjō Tour
12. ↑ Yamada Asaemon Dōjō Tour
13. ↑ Twitter