Hino Aoko (日野青子) or Hino Aoki ( 日野青木 ) is a teenaged girl with long steel blue hair that trails down her back and bright amber eyes that are almost orange. She disguises herself as a boy in other to become a fine Samurai for the sake of her family honour. She was born in a Samurai family which was really dissapoint her father because he had wished for a son. Although woman in Edo period can also become a female Samurai, her father thought of having a daughter in a Samurai family was really unhonourable for the Shoguns as well for the Daimyos. Aoko's real gender had been hid from the community since her birth due to her family honour. Her mother named her as "Aoko", while her father named her as "Aoki".
Personality
Aoko is generally a calm, stoic and authoritative individual, but can be a different person when she is around someone dear to her. A very straightforward and an honest person which always make other people feeling uneasy whenever being around her. She tends to expend energy only when necessary, and is usually a lady of few words. She usually has an indifferent or disinterested expression on her face. Aoko also good in hiding things especially in feelings and secret. She does not really care what others think about her as long they do not bother her.
The Edo period or Tokugawa period is the period between 1603 to 1868 in the history of Japan when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional Daimyo.