Bayushi Yamada

Bayushi Yamada was a bushi of the Scorpion Clan.

Death
After two successful missions, Yamada in 1199 became sempai to Bayushi Hinoko, who just passed her gempukku. He despised the new recruit, because was the result of an ill-conceived marriage of a Scorpion bushi to a Suzume woman. Their next mission was to retrieve a letter from Mirumoto messengers in the Shinpi province. Hinoko managed to kill both messengers, and found that Yamada had fallen, his body tumbling over the cliff and down. She let him to lose his grip and saw how her sempai died. Hinoko presented the scroll to her lord Bayushi Nitoshi, earning his compliments.