Onigiri-Sensei

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It looks like I have an adorable lupine visitor. My name is Onigiri Sensei and this is my dojo.

Onigiri Sensei

Onigiri-Sensei is the owner of the dojos seen throughout the game. He helps Amaterasu with her quest by teaching her useful techniques, but at a price.

Background

Onigiri-Sensei is an elderly man who owns three dojos throughout the land. One is in Shinshu Field, another in Ryoshima Coast, and the last in Kamui. Though he doubts the abilities of his students, he tends to overlook them if they are able to pay the fees. He also overlooks who they are, be they human or wolf.

When teaching, he changes from an elderly, kind man to a fierce, strict teacher. As a teacher, he seems to have little patience for his students, and will roughly encourage them to try harder. He will not give up until the student has successfully learned the technique. Despite his "harsh" nature, he is a very dedicated teacher, doing his best to expand his lessons throughout Nippon.

Involvement

Onigiri-Sensei's first dojo is in Shinshu Field. Amaterasu has the option of learning abilities from the dojo, though there are some abilities that must be learned. As long as she has the yen, she can learn the techniques that Onigiri offers. The techniques available range from each dojo. Most techniques are optional to learn, but they will make fighting and questing easier for Amaterasu.

Fate

In Okamiden, the Dojos are either inaccessible or ruined. Only the ruins of the Shinshu Field Dojo can be examined. If it is examined while Kuni is Chibiterasu's partner, it is revealed that Onigiri-sensei has moved away. It is unknown where he is or if he's even still alive, given his old age.

Gallery

Concept art showing both Onigiri-Sensei's forms.

Onigiri-Sensei's kind form.

Trivia

• An onigiri is a riceball, which is often served in a triangular shape.
  • However, splitting the word into "oni giri" changes the meaning to "demon slash" or "demon sword"
• When changing his stance, he makes the same poses as Viewtiful Joe from the game with the same name, when he first transforms.
  • Viewtiful Joe is also a game of Capcom.
  • At the entrance of Onigiri-Sensei's dojos there are always the Buddhist inscription 色即是空 (shiki soku ze kū). It can be translated as "form is emptiness". Emptiness (Japanese: kū; Sanskrit: shunyata) is a fundamental concept in Buddhist philosophy, and in Mahayana Buddhism in particular means the insubstantiality of all things in the mark of the relative-absolute metaphysical dichotomy.