Higuchi Eisuke

A popular writer interested in creating new rakugo stories for Yotarou to perform. [spoiler]As a teenager, he harbored a deep respect for Kikuhiko, and on the night of the Seventh Generation Yakumo's on-stage heart attack, he had prostrated himself in front of Kikuhiko and asked to become his apprentice. As such, he briefly appears, unnamed, in the second arc.[/spoiler]