The Family
An ancient dinasty of powerful mediums, the Sumeragi family has been the everpresent and most important spiritual guide of Japan since almost the begining of history. Mastering the mysterious arts of Omnyoujitsu, a kind of magic based on chanted spells that gain their power from the eternal equilibrium that must exist between Darkness and Light, all the thirteen generations of Sumeragis had been strictively trained in it´s hard discipline in order to achieve the necesary power to lead the Clan, and are iniciated in it´s practices since the earliest days of their lifes. The Sumeragi, the "Emperor´s Pride", as their name define them, are known all over Japan as messagers of light and wisdom, and though the family´s reaches being so wide, the Clan´s power and prestige appears to be mostly concentrated in Tokyo, where it holds a strong influence over most of the Goverment and finantial institutions.

The Sakurazukamori Clan
The Sumeragi Clan's Gallery
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Light Bringers
Subaru-kun, balancing the forces of Darkness and Light

Though being a wealthy and influent family in every day´s life, the Sumeragi Clan´s real mission is to fight against the forces of darkness in order to preserve the Balance between good and evil, this is the main reason for it´s ancestral enemistation with the Sakurazuka family, a less known though equaly powerful Clan of Omnyouji that comes to represent the forces of Shadow and whose members are known to be the inherinting line of the Sakurazukamori assasin guild, and that have leaded to a Clan´s secret war all through the centuries of both their existence. The Head of the Sumeragi family is considered to be the most powerful living Omnyouji, and is the one who inherits all the magic of the Sumeragi family, that is passed from generation through generation from parents to sons, and is as well the one who has the responsibility to guide the whole Clan in it´s crusade against evil. His/her role being so vital, the Clan´s Leader has therefore to be carefully trained since childhood in order to develop not only his spiritual power, but also a severe and firm personality together with an undestructable will necesary to face this important title.

Lady Sumeragi Lady Sumeragi, a Sad and Mysterious woman who represents the Clan´s wisdom

Twelveth Head of the Sumeragi Clan, Lady Sumeragi is the very heart and soul of the Clan by the time the story starts, so it is almost impossible to talk about the Clan without mentioning her in first place.

With the sudden dead of her son to the hands of the former Sakurazukamori assasin, the Clan suddenly found itself without someone to lead it, so Lady Sumeragi was the one to take care of both her grandsons, Hokuto and Subaru, this last one being the one who was to become the new Head of the family, having inherited his father´s magic skills. So she was the one in charge of all Subaru´s education and training in the Omnyoujitsu practice, being an experienced and powerful Omnyouji herself. Like this is that she came to hold a strong influence on his personality.

Lady Sumeragi regrets her mistake

But the event that shall change both hers and the entire Clan's life was to take place when, on a visit to Tokyo city, Lady Sumeragi left nine-year-old Subaru alone for a short while, which cause the little Clan leadear to get lost in the huge metropolis and meet who was to become the most important part of his life: Seishirou Sakurazuka, the current Sakurazukamori. When the old Clan's matriarch found her grandson's hands marked with the inverted pentragram that meant he belonged to Sakurazukamori, her anger and fear knew no limits. So she forced Subaru to perpetually hide his hands with magichally protected gloves, in hopes she could still prevent her dear child from becoming a prey.

Her life after that day seems full of sadness and self-reprecation, something that only helps to emphasize the melancholic aura that surrounds this mysterious woman who only appears in the TB plot every once in a while, but it's the key to main events in every sense. When, in the end, she confronts Seishirou on Subaru's behalf, she shows herself powerful enough to break the Sakurazukamori's maboroshi, though the price payed for her act or bravery are severe injuries that would surely last for lifetime: another symbol of the tragic results that always come out when both enemy Clans relate with each other.

The Sumeragi Clan's Gallery
  • Lady Sumeragi Performs a Fire Ceremony for Subaru.
    The members of the Sumeragi Clan use Fire Ceremonies to make predictions over a person's future. The Head of the Clan is usually the one who performs it. It consists in writting the person's name in a ceremonial wooden board and then let the fire consume it and reveal future visions about him/her.
  • Subaru Dresses the Clan's Head Shikifuku.
    Subaru only wears the ceremonial robes destined to the Head of the Clan when it comes to serious rituals and complicated spell-casting. Here he uses the Sumeragi ceremonial katana to send his Shiki to attack.
  • The Sumeragi Mansion at Sagano, Kyoto.
    This is the main residence of the main branch of the Sumeragi Clan. Here's where Subaru was born and raised to become the Head of the Clan, and where Lady Sumeragi spends her days in loneliness with just the company of her disciples. This shot is from one of the visits she asks Subaru to pay to her.
  • Lady Sumeragi Breaks the Sakurazukamori's Maboroshi.
    One of the most dramatic moments of the TB Manga: Subaru's Grandmother engages in a deathly confrontation with Seishirou in which she ends up terribly hurt, but still manages to break Seishirou's powerful maboroshi with a ceremonial mirror.


  • [ Wondering from where does all the bad blood between both Clans come from? Read my version of how it all started. ]

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