'Hazai Kugosashi (ハザイ久郷寺市; Kugosashi Hazai) was a redeemed Seieibushi ronin samurai that fought in the Second Great Samurai War. Although a ronin via exile at the time, Hazai was promised by the Arashishogun himself freedom from the oppressive laws of the exiled ronin and the his rule. The exact circumstances of Hazai's exile and ronin status remains ambiguous, though it involved a particular samurai's public execution. Hazai Kugosashi was the protagonist of Samurai Rising: Crescent Moon.