Yamanami Keisuke

Yamanami Keisuke （山南敬助）is a character from Kaze Hikaru, a historical shoujo manga by Watanabe Taeko. He is one of the vice commanders of the Mibu-Roushi (later the Shinsengumi) alongside Hijikata Toshizo.

He is a very gentle and educated man who is adored and respected both inside and outside the group. Yamanami is also one of the people who knows Kamiya Seizaburou's real gender like Okita Souji, yet agrees to keep his silence over the matter once he realized her reasons for staying.

Shieikan Days
Yamanami came from Sendai, a province up north of Japan. He went to Edo to study swordsmanship, where he was trained and mastered the art of Hokushin Itto Ryu style of kenjutsu, the same style used by Todo Heisuke and Ito Kashitaro. Yamanami's rank was Menkyo Kaiden, which gives him the license to teach the style.

He also enjoyed studying and is well-versed in a lot of subjects. It is because of these traits that Kondo Isami convinced him to stay in the Shieikan in order to tutor him.

Yamanami joined Kondo and the others when they left Edo to become bushi, and stayed with them when they broke away to form the Shinsengumi.