# Oda Yorimoto — The Mucker character guide

> Oda Yorimoto in The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Daimio Oda Yorimoto, the late Oda Yorimoto

**First appearance:** 0008-part-i-ix-oda-yorimoto

## Snapshot

A Japanese daimio and headhunter who rules a hidden island village, he claims the shipwrecked Barbara Harding as a prize for his palace.

## Who they are

Oda Yorimoto presides over Yoka as its absolute lord, his authority so feared that his own samurai hesitate to enter a room without his leave. He keeps Barbara captive in the small chamber behind his palace, a silent, unseen presence whose intentions even his son Oda Iseka claims not to know. His savagery and the dread he inspires set the terms of Barbara's captivity and force Billy Byrne and Theriere into the desperate palace rescue that defines the island arc.

## In the story

### [IX: Oda Yorimoto](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/chapters/part-i-ix-oda-yorimoto)

Watches the castaways from the cliffs, fixated on Barbara Harding, and plans to descend with his samurai.

### [X: Barbara Captured by Headhunters](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/chapters/part-i-x-barbara-captured-by-headhunters)

Daimio who captures Barbara and intends to make her his wife.

### [The Village of Yoka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/chapters/part-i-xi-the-village-of-yoka)

The daimio of Yoka, already dead in the back room, his body used by Barbara as a barricade.

### [XV: The Rescue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_mucker_se/chapters/part-i-xv-the-rescue)

The samurai killed by Billy and Barbara.

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