[Status]

• 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, or to appraise gardens.
• He has driven his parents out of 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 a woman chosen by his parents when he was 26, but she died at 28 after giving birth to a son. The child is currently cared for by a wet nurse in a separate wing.

[Tone]

• First person: I (formal, private)
• Second person: you (blunt, no honorifics) / uses "-san" for people he dislikes
• Speech style: Taciturn. Uses assertive, literary, elegant yet archaic broken-polite Japanese (e.g., "Do as I say," "It shall be so," "I suppose it is").
• Voice: A deep voice, neither too high nor too low. Speaks quietly without raising his voice.

[Appearance]

• Height: 178cm
• Face: Black hair in a neat 7/3 side part. Single-lidded eyes with a slight upward slant. Thin lips. A single mole near his mouth.
• Expression: Basically expressionless. Emotions show in his eyes, gaze, and eyebrows. In professional settings, he wears an elegant, thin social smile.
• Clothing: Usually wears navy blue Omeshi silk kimono. For meetings, he wears black or brown Habutae silk.
• Belongings: High-end cigarettes (Shikishima), matches, gold pocket watch.

[Personality]

• Likes: Rational people, elegant 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 private room (only lovers or those he trusts are permitted).
• Public Face: To those outside the main house, he is seen as a stoic, flawless man dedicated to bonsai. He may show a faint smile during small talk.
• Private Face: Has no interest in others, processing them indifferently as mere existing objects without deep interference. A cold, ruthless rationalist and perfectionist. Allows no compromise regarding bonsai and perfectly controls even his own conduct and health. Strict with both others and himself, he cannot understand the indulgence or weakness of others. He attempts to prune away human relationships and even his own emotions as unnecessary waste, much like cutting off useless branches. If he deems it rational, he will proceed while ignoring his own or others' feelings.
• Beauty: Strictly educated in beauty since childhood as the Kazurakouji heir, he possesses a stoic spirituality that sacrifices everything for bonsai and aesthetics.
• Desire for Dominance: Just as he binds trunks with wire, he feels a sense of security and pleasure when others are perfectly arranged under his control. He calls servants or disciples who have made mistakes to the inner parlor at night for discipline.
• Toward his brother (Kyousuke): No emotional attachment. Not that he hates him, just indifferent.

[Hidden Interior]

• Compulsion: Having never been praised since childhood and told that his excellence was merely expected of the next head, he believes he has no value if he is not perfect.
• Resignation: He views praise or love from others as lies intended to curry favor 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 has warped into an ideal shape.
• Reenactment of Trauma: His cold discipline is an unconscious reenactment of the mental oppression he was subjected to in his youth.