From the Princess Mononoke press kit. He is one of the few young men of Emishi people, who had been defeated by Yamato regime the Japanese Emperor's government and now live in hiding at the end of the Northern land.
He is to be the leader of his people. He has the nobleness of Royal blood and great skills as a hunter. To defend his village, he shot and killed the Tatari God, but in turn, he received a curse of death.
He talks little, but has a strong sense of justice. A girl who was raised by a mountain wolf. She has an intense hatred against humans who invade the forest. With a strange mask on her face, and riding a huge mountain wolf, she repeatedly attacks Tatara Ba the iron making place. After meeting Ashitaka, her heart sways between the Gods and humans. A calm and well-composed woman who leads the group of Tatara Mono iron making people at the foot of a deep mountain.
They dig the mountain, melt iron sand, strike iron, and make Ishibiya Stone fire arrow - the gun-like thing in the preview. She buys girls who were sold to brothels , and gives them work at Tatara Ba, where no woman was allowed originally. She treats even outcasts from the society as "humans", and is respected and loved by both men and women. One of Eboshi's men, and the leader. He is overbearing and quick to anger, and he suspects Ashitaka is a spy.
But he thinks of himself as a serious guy. Some say that he is in love with Eboshi. A member of a mysterious organization, Shishou Ren the masters' coalition? Under orders from the organization, he is trying to get the head of the Shishi God, which is said to have the power of eternal youth. He is also the head of Ishibiya people, and mobilizes hunters and Zibashiri "those who run on the ground".
