Kaede (Inuyasha)
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Kaede (楓) is a miko in the manga and anime series InuYasha.
She is the younger sister of Kikyō and took her post as the village miko after Kikyo's death at the hands of Naraku .
She lost her right eye at a young age while fighting alongside Kikyō and InuYasha (Kikyō failed to protect her because she was in love with InuYasha and her powers had been weakened by a curse laid by Tsubaki. This is not in the manga but takes place in a special episode of the anime.). She wears a tsuba (sword guard) over her missing eye.
After her sister's demise, she defends the village against yōkai until Kagome, her sister's reincarnation appears 50 years later. She is the first to identify Kagome as the reincarnation of Kikyō and placed Kikyō's kotodama no nenju (a holy rosary that gives power to the spoken word of whomever creates it) on InuYasha when Kagome first let him go, so Kagome could control him.
She later helps them defeat the oni Urasue, who stole the bones of her sister Kikyō and created a clay body for her (attempting to use her as a slave to recover the Shikon no Tama (Jewel of the Four Souls)).
She also provides moral support (such when InuYasha was jealous over Kagome's helping Kōga) and sometimes uses her miko powers to help, for example when InuYasha was injured, she and Miroku kept a barrier that hid them from Royōkan, who was being controlled by Naraku with a Shikon shard. Additionally, she is a source of helpful knowledge regarding Kikyō's past, most notably her brief time with Onigumo, and the era (this knowledge is of most help to Kagome and the viewers).
As the series progresses the story loses more and more focus on her until she rarely appears. She seems to have loved Kikyo very much when she was alive but loathes to see her as a zombie made of clay and wishes for her to return to death. Kikyo doesn't really seem to care about what becomes of her sister.
In Viz's English dubbed version, Kaede speaks in a very archaic tone (using "ye").
Name
Her name means maple tree.Voice Actor
- Japanese: Hisako Kyouda
- English: Pam Hyatt
- Hungarian: Kassai Ilona
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