 Lord of the Kouga Manjidani ninja clan, Danjou Kouga (甲賀 弾正 "Kōga Danjō") was ordered by retired shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu to lead nine other warriors besides himself against the chosen ten of the rival Iga Tsubagakure clan to determine a successor to the shogunate.Danjo greatly specializes in the use of poisoned throwing needles, which he can spit from his mouth with lethal precision, it is also implied that he might've also inherited the Doujutsu technique as it implied that it is inherited by bloodline.As a young man, he fell in love with the Iga chieftess Ogen whom he planned to marry so that peace could be established between their clans.