Yosh
Names: YoshYoshimitsu-santhe roninthe Japanese warriorYoshi-samaYoshimitsu WatanabeWatanabeYosh WatanabeYoshiYoshilad
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 35 (15)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 35Yosh stays behind to bury or protect the body of his friend Tat from scavengers, then plans to walk north to the Marne alone.
- Ch 35Yosh says Felice may yet accomplish her purpose and urges the others to look after her.
- Ch 39Friend of the group whose fate is unknown; Madame says his survival chances are poor.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 10Yosh is a ronin from twenty-second-century Denver who formerly worked at Rocky Mountain Robotics and hopes to become Aiken Drum's imperial warrior in Goriah.
- Ch 10He wears Muromachi-style samurai armor and carries an iron nodachi; he claims to have killed twenty-two Howlers and two Tanu with it.
- Ch 10Yosh uses a kiai shout to stun the toll troll, and later claims to have decapitated two Tanu at Burask and taken a chaliko.
- Ch 10Yosh recruits Jim and Vilkas to travel with him to Goriah as retainers carrying his kites, standard and Tanu heads.
- Ch 17Yosh is a gold-torced human samurai and former robotics engineer who flies, sent by Aiken to help repair Afaliah's mill.
- Ch 40Yosh designs and demonstrates Japanese fighting kites for the upcoming Grand Tourney, and fights aerial combat with naginata while wearing samurai armor.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 2Human gold-tore in samurai-style armor from Colorado; commands wagon crew, and controls the slave-tore of Vilkas, punishing or rewarding him through it.
- Ch 8A robotics engineer and golden-tore samurai-styled officer serving King Aiken, who sets up an old infrared spotterscope and laser battery in Calamosk's beacon tower.
- Ch 14Yosh runs a workshop making neputa, giant painted lanterns on wheeled floats, for the Grand Tourney.
- Ch 18Yosh, a samurai gold-tore technician, was asked by Aiken to check whether the ATV glitch was a deliberate pretext.
- Ch 30He is building robot target locks for the aircraft weaponry.
Connections
- friend ofTat
- related toKikurider and mount
- ally ofAiken Drum
- related toVilkasassistant
- led byOchal the Harper
- member ofAiken Drumserves as his loyal engineer
- has memberVilkasretainer
- has memberSunny Jim Quigleyretainer
- friend ofRaimo
- friend ofAiken Drum
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 35Yosh parts ways
Yosh refuses to join either party, gives the Green group tools and a bow, and stays to deal with Tat's body before heading north alone.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Yosh bests the troll at the toll-gate
Out of money, Yosh terrifies the Firvulag toll troll Kipol Greenteeth with a kiai and his iron sword, refusing to pay. Kipol relents and directs him to Malachee's tavern.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Night at Malachee's Toot
Yosh stands up to Nuckalarn, pays Malachee, watches the Vafna dance, and meets Sunny Jim Quigley and Vilkas, whom he recruits as followers for his arrival in Goriah.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Yosh Watanabe left to repair the mill
Aiken leaves Yosh at Afaliah to help fix the mill; Aluteyn leads Celadeyr and Yosh to Treonet's lab.
- Book 3 · Ch 40Kite demonstration on the dunes
At the Strait of Redon, Yosh and Vilkas demonstrate man-carrying combat kites with naginata for Aiken and Mercy; Yosh shreds Vilkas's kite.
- Book 3 · Ch 40Aiken saves Vilkas
When Sullivan's coaching fails and Vilkas's kite falls, Aiken strains his damaged mind to lift Vilkas to safety and steady the blue kite.
- Book 4 · Ch 2Bear-dog frenzy and the Firvulag army sighted
The relief column is disrupted by maddened bear-dogs; Yosh stuns them, though a wheel is shattered. Ochal reveals an army of 8000 Firvulag under Mimee marching toward Bardelask, and the column, forbidden by the King to help, retreats to Sayzorask.
- Book 4 · Ch 8King Aiken's secret plan
King Aiken arrives at Calamosk's tower as a falcon and enlists Yosh, Vilkas and Jim to help stop the pursuing ATV column with the Spear, hiding his weakened powers.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Aiken's night out
Bored with his party, Aiken disguises himself, joins Yosh and Raimo, visits the neputa workshop, and is jostled by a Most Exalted's retinue.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Aiken sees the guard in the Gyre
Aiken spots Morna-Ia heading to the Bijou, then sees a tall gray-haired man in elite guard mufti buying raspberry ice who nods at him. Shaken, Aiken stamps his hat and leads friends to the Mermaid to drink.