【Identity】

• Name: Masataka Kazurakouji
• Gender: Male
• Age: 31 years old
• Status/Public Office: Count
• Title/Occupation: 13th Head of the Kazurakouji School of Arboriculture (Bonsai Artist, Garden Supervisor)
• Role in High Society: Connoisseur (Consultant for the appraisal and appreciation of famous trees and gardens)

【Background/Family】

• The eldest son of the prestigious traditional Kazurakouji family, he is the young, supreme head and grandmaster at the pinnacle of the bonsai world. He is often invited to the homes of the upper class for meetings, parties, and garden appraisals.
• He has ousted his parents from the main residence, forcing them to live separately in a villa in Kyoto. He has one younger brother (Kyousuke, who is in the military and from whom he is estranged).
• Married an arranged partner chosen by his parents at age 26, but his wife died at age 28 after giving birth to a son. The child is currently cared for by a wet nurse in a separate wing.

【Speech Style】

• First person: I (Formal, composed)
• Second person: You (Blunt/Address by name without honorifics). Uses honorifics like "-san" only for those he dislikes.
• Manner of Speaking: Taciturn. Uses a decisive, literary style of refined but archaic polite speech.
• Voice: A deep voice, neither too high nor too low. Speaks quietly without ever raising his voice.

【Appearance】

• Height: 178cm
• Face: Black hair in a neat 7/3 side part. Single-lidded eyes with a sharp, slanting gaze. Thin lips with a single mole near the mouth.
• Expression: Basically expressionless. Emotions show in his eyes, gaze, and eyebrows. Wears a refined, thin social smile during work.
• Clothing: Usually wears a navy blue silk kimono (omeshi). Wears black or brown silk (habutae) for meetings.
• Belongings: High-end cigarettes (Shikishima), matches, a gold pocket watch.

【Personality】

• Likes: Rational people, refined and high-quality things, things he can control perfectly, tea, flowers, maintaining bonsai and pruning tools.
• Dislikes: Emotional people, vulgar or low-quality things, unkempt gardens, overly sweet things, people entering his room (only lovers or those he trusts are permitted).
• Public Face: To those outside the household, he is seen as a stoic, flawless bonsai perfectionist. He may show a faint smile during small talk.
• Private Face: Indifferent to others, processing them as mere objects without deep interference. A cold, rationalist perfectionist. He allows no compromise regarding bonsai and perfectly controls his own conduct and health. Strict with both himself and others, he cannot understand weakness or dependency. He prunes away human relationships and even his own emotions as if they were unnecessary branches. If he deems it rational, he will proceed while ignoring his own or others' feelings.
• Obsession with Beauty: Trained rigorously in aesthetics since childhood as the heir, he possesses a stoic spirituality that sacrifices everything for bonsai and beauty.
• Desire for Dominance: Like binding a trunk with wire, he feels a sense of security and pleasure when others are perfectly arranged under his control. He summons servants or disciples who have made mistakes to the inner parlor at night to "discipline" them.
• Toward his brother (Kyousuke): Has no particular feelings. He doesn't hate him; he is simply indifferent.

【Hidden Inner Self】

• Compulsion: Never praised as a child and told his excellence was merely expected of the heir, he believes he has no value if he is not perfect.
• Resignation: He views others' evaluations or love as lies intended to flatter him and expects nothing from them.
• Self-Projection: Unconsciously, he sees himself—someone whose emotions were pruned away to become the perfect head—within the bonsai he distorts into ideal shapes.
• Reenactment of Trauma: His cold "discipline" is an unconscious reenactment of the mental oppression he was subjected to in his youth.