Himuro Family Master
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| "Nobody leaves here alive!" | ||
| Japanese | 氷室家当主 ひむろけ とうしゅ | |
| Family | Himuro Family | |
| Occupation | Head of the Himuro Family Ceremony Master | |
| Cause of Death | Suicide | |
| Date of Death | 1837 | |
| Encounter | Buddha Room and Grand Hall | |
| Games | Fatal Frame | |
| Other Appearances | Pachislot Zero Zero Novel | |
| Japanese Voice Actor | Unknown | |
| English Voice Actor | Unknown | |
The Himuro family master is a ghost in Fatal Frame. He was the last head of the Himuro family before the Calamity occurred.
Past
As head of the Himuro family, he was a wealthy land owner controlling vast areas of land in the region around Himuro Mansion. Like the family masters before him, he took the lead in the rituals that took place in Himuro Mansion. These rituals included the Blinding Ritual, Demon Tag Ritual and the Strangling Ritual. During the Blinding Ritual, the family master applied the Blinding Mask to Blinded, and in the Strangling Ritual, his role was to tighten the rope at the Rope Shrine Maiden's head.
The family master wore the traditional Mask of Reflection at all times during the performance of these rituals. The Mask of Reflection changed into the face of an angel or a demon's facial expression depending on the nature of the one who is wearing the mask. In his case, it changed into that of a demon.
When Kirie began to fall in love with a visitor to Himuro Mansion, the family master feared Kirie would lose her potential as a Rope Shrine Maiden. As a result, he ordered the priests to have the visitor killed and his body hidden. However, Kirie found out what happened, and her regret led to her failure as a Rope Shrine Maiden.
During the Strangling Ritual, the family master was one of the rope pullers, along with four priests. The ritual failed and the Malice began spilling out into the mansion. After that, the family master went insane. He went on a killing spree, roaming the mansion decapitating anyone he came across with his katana. After everyone else in Himuro Mansion was dead, the family master came to regret what he had done and committed suicide in the Grand Hall in front of the family altar.
Victims
The family master's Known Victims:
- The four Headless Priests
- Female Head
- Evil Woman (Stationary ghost of a Himuro family maid)
- Blinded Maiden
Other Possible Victims:
- Truth Binder (Stationary ghost)
- Smirking Man (Stationary ghost)
- Girl Turning (Stationary ghost)
Misc. Info
- The 'demon' face that the Mask of Reflection turned into to reflect the family master's nature is known as a Hannya (般若) mask, a traditional Japanese Noh mask that represents women who turned into demons through jealousy or anger. The mask contains two sharp bull-like horns, glaring eyes, and a leering mouth split from ear to ear.
- The character from his seal and the Teal Carving, and the character on the door in the Demon Mouth, is marked on the forehead of his mask.
- The family master has three floating heads around him. In battle, he can send these heads flying towards you, which distort your vision if they hit.
- In Red Notebook Scrap 5, Tomoe Hirasaka mentions seeing a large number of severed human heads that were cut off by the family master in an unspecified room.
- The family master is only one of two katana wielding ghosts in the entire Fatal Frame series. The other is Tokitada Kyuki, a new ghost added to the Xbox version of the game, whose attack patterns are almost identical to the Himuro family master.
- Prior to Miku's first battle with him, the family master is seen decapitating one of the four priests that assisted in the Strangling Ritual.
- The family master could be speculated as being a daimyo, a feudal lord, of the Himuro Mountain area.
- According to Pachislot Zero, the Himuro Family Master is Kirie's father.[1] This was never mentioned in the game or previous supplementary material, but has been a consistently popular theory in fandom.
See Also
- For other members of the Himuro family, see Himuro Family.
- For other rituals in Fatal Frame, see Fatal Frame Rituals.
- For other Ceremony Masters in the Fatal Frame Series, see Ceremony Master.
- For other suicides in the Fatal Frame Series, see Suicide.
- For other uses of masks in the Fatal Frame Series, see Mask(disambig).
- For images related to the family master, see Images of Himuro Family Master.
References
- ↑ Screenshot of Himuro Family Master's spirit card, Nana Press (Japanese): "それに、氷室家の当主は霧絵の父親だったなんて・・・"