Name Henya Kariwa
Voice Actor Unknown
Nickname Juppon Gatana Hishou
Hair Color Black
Eye Color Black
Height Unknown
Birth Stuff Unknown
Zodiac Sign Unknown
Age Unknown
Weapon Bombs (dynamite), a knife (I am not aware of the type of knife.)
Weapon Technique He has no specific technique, but he uses his extremely thin and light body and wings to glide through the air and attack his enemies with various weapons.
Special Moves None
Personality Unknown
Backround History Not is really known about his past. After the Juppon Gatana was defeated he flew banners around for the government.
Watsuki's View "Henya is based on an actual swordsman from the early Tokugawa period, Mappayashi Henyasai. Henyasai was an expert at the jumping movements that would be called acrobatics today. In this respect, he formed a part of Kenshin as well. Henya was originally meant to be introduced in the Megumi story, as one of the Oniwabanshuu, named Tengu. But in my typically haphazard way of finishing a story I missed my chance, so I made him one of the Ten Swords. I thought about a battle in midair with Kenshin, but then I thought "Kenshin’s already got the succession techniques, this is no enemy for him," so I gave him to the one following in his footsteps, namely Yahiko. By the way, a lot of readers wrote me about this chapter, saying Yahiko was too good. Hm . . . I thought this was about right for the potential Yahiko has at this point, but . . . Well, Yahiko is going to be growing up from this point on, so maybe it’s better people think he’s weak now . . . I like the idea of the Hikuu Happa, but there are a lot of other things I wish I’d done with it. For the design, I started out with a bat, and added an aerodynamic head, a little like Cyborg 0002 of 0009. One of my original concepts for the Ten Swords was that other than Soujirou, they shouldn’t be handsome. (Well, Kamatari and Fuji kind of are.) I meant Henya to look like a demon, but when he started to look a little handsome anyway, I thought "This is no good" and tried making him all skin and bone. For this, I referred to the threefold character The Freak from the American comic Spawn, using the madman."