A [i][[Touken Ranbu]][/i] character. One of the Awataguchi school swords and thus is one of the many "Toushirou" brothers. 

Has a thing for sweets and married women. Having been owned by Tokugawa Ieyasu, his liking for married women is a reference to Ieyasu's reputation as a womanizer. In fandom, this very quickly snowballed into Houchou either being the only skirt chaser of the citadel, openly lusting after particularly effeminate-looking or wife-like swords (such as [[Horikawa Kunihiro]]) if there is an absence of a [[female saniwa (touken ranbu)|female saniwa]] or women in general, or indulging in [[netorare]]. After a while a lot of fanworks just portrayed him as a needy kid, with the implication that he goes after married women then being due to the fact that they're more likely to give him candy.

He has [[brown hair]] and [[brown eyes]]. He wears a [[military uniform]] with [[shorts]] like his brothers, though with a yellow [[necktie]] instead of a black one. He wears colorful [[japanese_armor|Japanese armor]] consisting of [[sode]] and [[kote]] on his right side. He wears a pink [[hairclip]] in his hair and carries a [[messenger bag]], which his damaged portrait reveals is full of [[candy]].

Voiced by [[Miyata Kouki]]. Artist is [[kumita (sumica)]].
包丁藤四郎