Kozuki Oden

Kozuki Oden — named on-page Ch. 817 as the late “great daimyo of Kuri in the Land of Wano,” father of Momonosuke and head of the Kozuki Clan. His retainers — Kin’emon, Kanjuro, Raizo, and the mink dukes Dogstorm and Cat Viper — all bear or honor the Kozuki crest and serve his heir. Referred to entirely in the past tense — implied gone — but not shown this chapter.

Arc-by-arc updates

Mentioned — Kaido’s flashback (Ch. 1049)

• Kaido notes that “Oden’s desire to open the country… is meant to welcome Joyboy,” tying Oden’s open-borders dream to the Joy Boy prophecy (p.6). (Flashback mention — last_mentioned → 1049.)

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1008)

• Posthumously impersonated: Kanjuro forges a convincing “returned Oden” painting; Ashura, on exposing it, refuses to “defile Kozuki Oden again” (pp. 2–9).

Reveal in Wano (Ch. 999) — referenced (flashback)

• Marco reveals Oden was the Whitebeard Pirates’ Second Division Commander before Ace, and the post stayed unfilled for years after Oden left — Ace inherited Oden’s seat. The Whitebeard Pirates only learned of Oden’s death “several years after it happened” (p. 12). See Ace Whitebeard Second Division Commander Reveal.

Wano — Onigashima raid (Ch. 984) — referenced

• His voyage journal, recovered in Kuri by Yamato, is revealed to survive — it records his grand adventure and “very important things,” unknown to Kaido’s crew (p. 16). See Odens Voyage Journal Survives As Yamatos Bible.
• His execution twenty years ago is recalled as “the Hour of Legends,” and his dying creed to open Wano is inherited by Yamato (pp. 16–17). See Oden’s Dying Creed To Open Wano’s Closed Borders Before The World Shifts.

Wano Country — Oden flashback (Ch. 973) — flashback (alive)

• Hoists Momonosuke and Hiyori on his shoulders to show them “the world,” teaching the Kozuki clan’s ancient bond with Zou and the Minks — “seek out Zou!!” (pp. 2–3).
• Hears Hiyori’s shamisen song “Moon Princess” and asks her to “play it at my funeral” (p. 3); remembered later telling Toki “You are the moon unaware of the dawn” (p. 11). See Oden’s Play-It-At-My-Funeral Request.

Wano Country — Oden’s execution (Ch. 972) — flashback; DEATH shown on-page

• Endures the full hour in the boiling-oil cauldron at the Flower Capital (the oil past 120°C, the heat-haze itself lethal), holding all nine retainers (Akazaya Nine) up out of the oil the entire time to save them (pp. 6–13).
• Delivers his last testament: the Kozuki clan closed Wano ~800 years ago “to protect Wano… from a great external power,” and after an 800-year span a figure “the entire world awaits” will appear — Wano must open its borders to welcome and work with them (pp. 7–8). His dying command: “open up Wano in my stead!!” See Oden’s Dying Creed To Open Wano’s Closed Borders Before The World Shifts, Joy Boy Identity, Void Century and Ancient Kingdom.
• When Orochi reveals he secretly switched the sentence to a firing squad and condemns the whole clan, Oden hurls his retainers clear toward Kuri (“RUN!!! / TO KURI!!!”, p. 12), names “Toki, Momonosuke, Hiyori,” cries the title line “I am Oden, and I was born to boil!!” (pp. 16–17), and is shot dead by the firing squad — “and so ended one legend.”
• In the flashback frame (pp. 18–19) he entrusts wife Kozuki Toki with her power (“If I should die… I want you to use your power, Toki”) and bequeaths his two swords to the children (Momonosuke, Kozuki Hiyori). See Zoro Inherits Oden’s Sword Enma, The Kozuki Time-Leap.

Wano Country — Oden flashback “Sentenced to Boil” (Ch. 971) — fully on-page (flashback; alive — does NOT die here)

• Condemned with his nine vassals (Akazaya Nine) to a public execution by boiling oil (a sentence that normally kills in a second). Bargains with Kaido: “all ten of us will enter the pot together” — if they withstand the boiling for an agreed span, free the vassals. Kaido grants one hour (pp. 3, 6).
• Plunges into the pot but does not die: stands inside the boiling oil and holds all nine vassals up on a plank, keeping them out of the oil entirely (“his vassals aren’t even touching the oil”; “he’s holding up nine great big men on his own”). Overrides their protests — “Shut up and stay there!!! This is an order!!!” (pp. 8–12). Still standing in the pot at chapter end.
• The “fool of a lord” inversion (via Shinobu, pp. 16–17): Oden’s weekly naked public dance was a five-year ransom — under Orochi’s deal, each dance freed 100 kidnapped Wano citizens, sacrificing all his standing to protect the people while waiting for Kaido to finish his ships and leave. See Odens Self-Humiliating Dance Was A Deliberate Sacrifice.

Wano — Oden flashback (Ch. 970) — fully on-page (flashback; alive)

• Marches on Kaido, who admits the truce between them was a feint; Oden: “Then it was all a lie!! … I stand by my decision that day” (pp. 3–5).
• With Oden Two-Sword Style — Paradise Totsuka (楽園十束 Rakuen Totsuka) he cuts the dragon-form Kaido, “a blow on the invincible Kaido” — the on-page depiction of the only one ever to wound Kaido (pp. 11–13).
  • Etymology done : 楽園十束 Rakuen Totsuka. 楽園 Rakuen = “paradise / Eden / pleasure-garden” (VIZ “Paradise”) — a second “paradise”-class prefix in Oden’s two-sword move-set, distinct from the 桃源 Tōgen (“Peach Blossom Spring”) of Ch. 961’s Paradise Waterfall. 十束 Totsuka = literally “ten spans / ten hand-breadths,” naming the Totsuka-no-Tsurugi (十束剣 / 十拳剣, “Sword of Ten Hand-breadths”), the legendary class of long blade in the Kojiki / Nihon Shoki — most famously Ame-no-Habakiri, the very Totsuka-no-Tsurugi the storm-god Susanoo used to slay Yamata-no-Orochi, the eight-headed serpent. The pun is plot-loaded, not decorative: Oden lands this strike on the dragon/serpent-form Kaido, and his named Wano enemy is the serpent-Shogun Orochi (the Yamata-no-Orochi fruit, Ch. 933); Oden’s actual heirloom blade Ame-no-Habakiri is a Totsuka-no-Tsurugi. So the technique name itself invokes the serpent-slaying sword — reinforcing the existing serpent-slayer name-etymology seed (Odens Swords Enma And Ame-no-Habakiri Encode The Hell-King And The Serpent-Slayer, which already cites this strike @0970); no new Foreshadowing filed — the decode strengthens that seed rather than minting a duplicate. Mythological-allusion + name-etymology layer; contrast the purely-decorative food/utopia pun of Paradise Waterfall. Confidence: high. Sources: One Piece Wiki Oden Two Sword Style (Totsuka = the four Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, incl. Ame-no-Habakiri); Wikipedia Totsuka-no-Tsurugi / Susanoo / Yamata-no-Orochi.
• When Orochi takes the eight-year-old Momonosuke hostage, the distracted Oden (“Momo…”) is struck down and captured (pp. 13–15).
• Imprisoned in the Flower Capital with his nine retainers (Akazaya Nine) and sentenced to be boiled to death in the public square in three days (pp. 15–17). See Oden And His Retainers Sentenced To Be Boiled To Death.
• Had pre-arranged with Yasuie (by messenger) to shelter Toki and the children should he fall (p. 8). See Odens Self-Humiliating Dance Was A Deliberate Sacrifice.

Oden flashback — “The Fool of a Lord” (Ch. 969) — fully on-page (flashback; alive)

• Returned invincible and demanded the shogun’s seat, only to be blocked by Orochi’s barrier sorcery (Kurozumi Semimaru) and told the shogunate decree was a Kurozumi forgery (Kurozumi Higurashi’s Clone-Clone impersonation of Sukiyaki) (pp. 2–6).
• Endured five years as “the Fool of a Lord”: dancing near-naked outside Orochi’s palace weekly for scraps to protect Wano’s townsfolk, his family and vassals bearing the shame (pp. 8–15).
• Wept and laughed on the beach over Roger’s execution news, 24 years before present — “Roger!! What a life!!!” (p. 11).
• When Orochi revealed he had given Hyogoro the Flower to Kaido and meant to turn Wano into a weapons producer, Oden’s perseverance broke: “The time has come… to strike down Kaido!!!” — gathering the nine men he had raised to samurai (pp. 15–17). See Akazaya Nine.

Oden flashback — “Oden’s Return” (Ch. 968) — fully on-page (flashback; alive)

• After the Roger Pirates reach Laugh Tale, Roger drops Oden home to Wano, sending him off with a bundle of medicine from ship-doctor Crocus (p. 6). Oden bids the crew a smiling farewell (“It’s not as though I’m dying… we’ll meet again one day”), passing a message for Whitebeard and leaving Izo aboard at his own comfort (pp. 6–7).
• States Wano’s mission: the country must open its ports “before the day that Joyboy appears!!!” (p. 7). See Joy Boy Identity.
• Joyful reunion in Kuri with Toki, Momonosuke, and Hiyori (p. 8); the townsfolk now adore the family thanks to Toki (p. 9).
• Learns from Kin’emon that his father Sukiyaki died and named Orochi (a Kurozumi descendant) successor; that Orochi — backed by Kaido — has turned Wano into a weapons-factory tyranny; and that Kaido’s men wounded Toki in an attack on Oden Castle (pp. 11–14).
• Enraged, charges the Flower Capital and storms the castle, vowing to cut Orochi in two (pp. 15–17).

Oden-era flashback — Roger voyage’s end (Ch. 967) — Laugh Tale; the brief return to Wano

• Sailed with the Roger Pirates to Fish-Man Island, Wano, Zou, and the final island; can hear the Voice of All Things alongside Roger — at the depths “you do, Oden?!” (p. 6).
• Slipped home to Wano for “merely hours” — his first return in four years — took a copy of the Wano poneglyph, and shipped out again, leaving the ailing Toki with Inuarashi & Nekomamushi (pp. 12–13). Sensed “if I turned back, I would never again go to sea.”

Wano — Oden flashback (Ch. 966) — holds off both captains; joins the Roger Pirates

• As a Whitebeard commander, single-handedly charges the raiding Roger Pirates with his Two-Sword Style (“Divine Departure”), holding off both Roger and Whitebeard (pp. 2–5).
• Can read the Kozuki clan’s secret poneglyph cipher — the reason Roger wants him (p. 9). “His blood cried out” and he volunteers to sail with Roger for a year (p. 12).
• Joins the Roger Pirates — “the second act of my life as a pirate.” Trademark intro: “I am Oden! And I was born… to boil!!!” (pp. 14–15).
• Carves Roger’s message “I hereby guide this document to its end” into the sky poneglyph; notes it is “packed full of strong voices” (p. 17). See Ancient Weapons (Poseidon named), Voice of All Things.

Wano — Oden flashback (Ch. 964) — the chain test; meeting Toki; joining Whitebeard

• Oden’s youth voyage: begs Whitebeard to take him to sea; Whitebeard refuses (Oden tried to kill him “dozens of times,” has “no skill for sailing,” “isn’t the type to serve someone else”) (pp. 2–3).
• When the Whitebeard Pirates slip out of Wano at night, Oden chains himself to the departing ship and is dragged past the falls; Whitebeard sets the 3-day chain test — cling for three whole days to earn a berth (pp. 4–7).
• Battered and misshapen, Oden vanishes from the chain only minutes from passing, washes ashore, and (mistaken for an umibozu) scares off slavers (Cephaloctopus Pirates under Captain Karma) to save Amatsuki Toki; she nurses him back to human form (pp. 11–12).
• Whitebeard’s ship returns and Oden is welcomed into the crew; Dogstorm, Cat Viper, and Toki join the voyage (pp. 14–15).
• His worldview is shattered by the wide world (“I was so small!! I only knew a tiny piece of the world!!”) (pp. 16–17).

Wano Country — Oden flashback (Ch. 963) — “Becoming Samurai”

• As a young man, rescues three shipwrecked outcasts — the mink dukes Cat Viper & Dogstorm and the kappa Kawamatsu — from a stake-burning Kuri mob: “It is absolutely pathetic for you to torment little children!! You only fear what is different out of ignorance” — and feeds them at Kuri Castle (pp. 4–8). See The Minks And The Kozuki Clan Are Ancient Sworn Brothers.
• Resolves to go out to sea “more than ever before” after meeting them (p. 8); his habit of attracting outcasts and ruffians as vassals extends even to lending money to the destitute young Orochi (p. 9). See Oden Sailed With Roger And Learned The Secret Of The World.
• His rough thieving vassals are refined into proper samurai by Yasuie of Hakumai; three years later (~30 years before the present) Oden’s gallant retinue processes into the Flower Capital (pp. 12–13).
• Visits the Flower Capital on hearing his father Sukiyaki is ill — narration: “this would be the last day they ever exchanged words” (p. 14).
• Races to confront the pirate ship that climbed the falls to Itachi Port; clashes with it, names himself, and demands of its captain Edward Newgate: “Let me ride on your ship!!!” (pp. 15–18) — his first meeting with Whitebeard.

Oden flashback — wandering years; the conquest of Kuri (Ch. 962)

• Told as excerpts from Oden’s own travel journal. He leaves Hakumai, tours Wano causing chaos, and personally recruits his future retainers: Izo & Kikunojo (Ringo), Kanjuro (Kibi), Raizo, then the whole of Kuri.
• Busts through Kuri’s gate alone; in a day-and-night battle beats every ruffian — including the boss Ashura Doji — declaring he will be their king, and tames the wasteland into a home (pp. 9–10).
• Shogun Sukiyaki retracts his disownment and names him Daimyo of Kuri (p. 10). Oden refuses the assigned noble vassals and takes his reformed ruffians as his samurai instead — “I would rather have you all!!” (p. 12).
• Timeline: the Kuri conquest sits ~39 yrs pre-present; the closing caption skips ahead to “six years after… 33 years before the present day” (p. 13).

Oden flashback — The Mountain God Incident (Ch. 961)

• At 18 years old, Oden wrestles a stolen white piglet through the Flower Capital; the giant white boar Mountain God rampages to reclaim its child.
• Names and uses his signature Oden Two-Sword Style — “Paradise Waterfall” (桃源白滝 Tōgen Shirataki): leaps into the boar’s maw and splits it open so every swallowed person and building spills out alive — no fatalities (pp. 11–14).
  • Etymology done : 桃源白滝 Tōgen Shirataki. 桃源 Tōgen = an earthly paradise — short for 桃源郷 Tōgenkyō, the “Peach Blossom Spring” of Tao Yuanming’s 421 CE Chinese fable (the Shangri-La / hidden-utopia archetype); VIZ renders it “Paradise.” 白滝 Shirataki = literally “white waterfall” (VIZ “Waterfall”), but the same word is shirataki — the translucent konjac/konnyaku noodles that are a staple ingredient of oden (and of sukiyaki) hot-pot. The attack name thus extends Oden’s oden-ingredient technique-naming gag, of a piece with the Kozuki food-naming theme: Oden is named for the dish, his father Sukiyaki for another hot-pot, and Oden’s sword techniques pun on oden’s own ingredients. Decorative food/utopia pun, not a plot seed — no Foreshadowing filed (cf. Dobon). Confidence: high. Sources: One Piece Wiki Oden Two Sword Style (etymology); Wikipedia The Peach Blossom Spring; Wiktionary / Kikkoman shirataki (白滝 = “white waterfall” / oden-&-sukiyaki konjac noodle).
• Reviled as “the prodigal son” who caused the disaster; summoned by his father the Shogun Kozuki Sukiyaki and disowned/banished from the Flower Capital (p. 15). Declares: “Wherever the sun sets, that shall be my bed!!”
• Crosses to Hakumai, welcomed by its daimyo Shimotsuki Yasuie; gains his first would-be followers (Kin’emon, Denjiro).

Wano — Oden flashback opens (Ch. 960)

• First on-page appearance (flashback to his youth ~40+ years ago). Captioned “Wano shogun’s heir — Kozuki Oden” (p. 13). Son of Shogun Kozuki Sukiyaki.
• His outrageous childhood/youth is narrated to his father (pp. 7–9): threw his wet nurse before age 1; caught two hares at 2; killed a bear with a hurled boulder at 4; haunted the pleasure halls at 6; on the yakuza blacklist at 9; assault + burned a gambling den at 10; rose to chief stonemason in prison; at 14 carved a river through the capital to break a drought (causing floods); waged the “Harem War” at 15–18, abducting women and battling their menfolk (even drawing in the Hyogoro family).
• Longs to break Wano’s closed-border law and sail to sea — but “has no talent for sailing” (p. 7). Seeds his future voyage (see Oden Sailed With Roger And Learned The Secret Of The World).
• Shown boiling and devouring a pot of oden over a stranger’s funeral pyre, pouring a farewell sake-cup into it (pp. 12–14); seduces the capital’s wives/daughters with his “legendary Oden speeches” (p. 15).
• Cliffhanger: steps before the rampaging Mountain God demanding “Give that boar to me!!” — Kin’emon: “K-Kozuki Oden?!!” (p. 17). See The Mountain God Boar Rampages The Capital And Confronts Young Oden.

Wano flashback — return from the Roger voyage (Ch. 958)

• Cold-open (~25 years before present): the Roger Pirates return Oden to Wano. He refuses the crew’s offered help — “this is something that we of the Kozuki clan must solve on our own” — citing his long reservations about why Wano keeps its borders closed (pp. 2-3).
• Vows not to “leave the country behind, then come back and demand ‘Make me the shogun!’”; instead he will “find a way to pass this will on” and, “in 20 years from now,” “open the Land of Wano” with the vassals he left home (pp. 3-4). See The Kozuki Time-Leap.
• Nicknames the crew on parting: “Rayleigh, Redtaro (Shanks), Buggyjiro (Buggy)” (p. 3). Farewell: “We shall, Roger!! Let’s do it, Oden!!” (p. 4).

Mentioned — Wano’s beloved pirate, Whitebeard→Roger (Ch. 957)

• Sengoku recalls Oden: a pirate of Wano who was a commander under Whitebeard, then recruited by Roger and accompanied the King of the Pirates on his final voyage (p. 19).

Wano Country — Amigasa (Ch. 955) — named only (his blades)

• His two famed swords are named and passed on: Enma (“splits the earth to the bottom of hell”) and Ame-no-Habakiri (“cuts down the heavens”) — both among the 21 Excellent-Grade Swords (pp. 5–6). “Only one man has ever tamed Enma… Kozuki Oden” (p. 6). Enma passes to Zoro, Ame-no-Habakiri held for Momonosuke. Both were forged by Shimotsuki Kozaburo — the same smith who made Zoro’s Wado Ichimonji (p. 16).

Wano Country — Ringo (Ch. 954) — referenced; two-sword swordsman

Wano Country — Ringo (Ch. 953) — referenced; Enma’s original owner

• Named as Hiyori’s late father and the original owner of Enma, “the only one to have ever wounded Kaido,” which Hiyori now offers to Zoro (p. 17). See Enma Odens Sword The Only Blade To Have Wounded Kaido Offered To Zoro.

Wano Country — Hakumai flashback (Ch. 942) — referenced; flashback face only

• Shown as a young man under his father Sukiyaki, chafing to “go to sea” against Wano’s closed-nation law; “banished from the castle”/cut off as “tough love.” The daimyo Yasuie of Hakumai disciplines him to become “a proper warrior” first (pp. 2–3).

• Named for the first time on-page as the great daimyo of Kuri and head of the Kozuki Clan (caption, p. 6). The mink dukes Dogstorm and Cat Viper bow to Momonosuke as “Lord Oden’s” son (pp. 4–6), and the group’s bearing is twice likened to Oden’s (p. 11).
• Referred to entirely in the past tense (“if father saw you…”, “what happened to father”) — implied deceased; not shown on-page.

• The Kozuki Clan he headed are revealed as the master stonemasons who created the poneglyphs ~800 years ago; Oden “began to develop an interest in the stones,” and the clan’s runes-reading teaching was cut short in his generation so heir Momonosuke never learned it (pp. 12–14).
• Executed: “By the Shogun of Wano and the pirate Kaido… Lord Oden was put to death!!!” — he gave his life “to save the lives of all his servants” (pp. 14–16).
• The cliffhanger: Oden “rode with the King of the Pirates, Gol D. Roger,” reached Raftel, “and it was there that he learned the secret of the world!!!” (p. 17). See Oden Sailed With Roger And Learned The Secret Of The World.

• Sailed with Gold Roger all the way to Raftel and “learned the secrets of the world,” like Rayleigh (p. 2) — a Roger Pirates alumnus (crews_served += Roger Pirates).
• Deliberately burdened his retainers with no secrets so they could honestly know nothing under interrogation (p. 3).
• His one dying message: open Wano’s closed borders and strike down the Shogun of Wano and Kaido (pp. 4–7).
• His direct vassals were the two mink kings, Dogstorm and Cat Viper; the day Raizo arrived they were prepared for the inevitable fight (p. 6).
• Kaido is named responsible for Oden’s death (p. 11). See Oden Sailed With Roger And Learned The Secret Of The World.

Zou — the seafaring legend unspooled (Ch. 820) — referenced; silhouette only

• The mink dukes reveal Oden’s history: a great daimyo of Wano whom Roger scouted from Whitebeard’s crew; Oden and his retainers rode aboard both Moby Dick and the Oro Jackson, and Oden reached Raftel with Roger (pp. 2–8). Generationally “more of a kid or an apprentice back then, like Shanks and Buggy.”
• Framed as a malcontent who long doubted the laws that kept Wano a closed isolationist country (“it is a crime even to set sail”); for a daimyo to ride with pirates was a scandal his retainers tried (in vain) to prevent (pp. 4–5).
• Shown only as a flashback silhouette (p. 3); still referred to in the past tense — implied deceased. See Kozuki, Oden Sailed With Roger And Learned The Secret Of The World.

Zou (Ch. 821) — referenced; the Oden ↔ Voice connection deepens

• Revealed that Lord Oden visited Zou and heard the same great “voice” Gol D. Roger heard — neither could converse with it (p. 8). The minks tie Momonosuke’s voice-faculty to Oden’s legacy (“Did Lord Oden know about this power…?”, p. 18). Deepens the Oden ↔ Voice of All Things connection.

Whole Cake Island — named in Pedro’s death flashback (referenced) (Ch. 878)

• Named in Pedro’s death flashback: Pedro reveres “Roger, Lord Oden” as the men he looks up to, who “await” at the dawning of the world (“I will join you!!!”, pp. 4-5) — tying the Mink Guardians’ generation to the Roger/Oden legacy.

Wano Country (Ch. 914) — referenced (the late Lord Oden)

• Referred to as “the late Lord Oden” (deceased). Ruled Kuri as part of the Kozuki Clan that governed the Land of Wano until ~20 years ago. Created Paradise Farm at the foot of his mountain to feed the people of Kuri safe, healthy food — now seized by Shogun Orochi. His seat, Oden Castle, stands in ruins atop the one smokestack-less mountain (pp. 8-9). See Oden Castle Ruins Mark The Fall Of The Kozuki Clan Twenty Years Ago.

Wano Country (Ch. 918) — referenced; grave marker only

Wano Country (Ch. 919) — referenced; grave + propaganda only

• His grave (光月おでん之墓, “Grave of Kozuki Oden”) stands in the ruins of Oden Castle (p. 11).
• Official Wano propaganda names “Oden and the Akazaya Nine” as the “bad samurai” who tried to open the closed country and were vanquished by Orochi 20 years ago (pp. 6–7).

Wano Country (Ch. 920) — Oden’s life narrated (flashback face)

• Full backstory told to the Straw Hats at the Oden Castle ruins: the boisterous son of Shogun Kozuki Sukiyaki, banished from the Flower Capital for his violent ways (p. 2).
• Conquered the lawless region of Kuri: beat the “Demon Child” Ashura Doji and took command of its ruffians; made Daimyo of Kuri at age 20; built a town, a castle, and the Paradise Farm (pp. 3–4).
• Took in the washed-up “talking dog and cat” Minks (Inuarashi, Nekomamushi) when others feared them as aliens — “our savior… our master” (p. 5).
• “Entranced Whitebeard… and even charmed Roger” (p. 6). See Oden Sailed With Roger And Learned The Secret Of The World.
• Taken to the Flower Capital as a criminal, tried, and executed under Orochi ~20 years ago (pp. 6–7). His wife Kozuki Toki then sent his retainers + heir 20 years forward to fulfil his wish to “open the country” and topple Orochi and Kaido (p. 10). See Oden Castle Ruins Mark The Fall Of The Kozuki Clan Twenty Years Ago, The Kozuki Time-Leap.

Wano Country (Ch. 932) — referenced (dead 20 years)

• Orochi confirms this is the 20th year since Oden’s death and that Oden “died, right before my eyes” (pp. 10–11). Toki’s prophecy — “Oden’s will yet lives” — drives Orochi’s paranoia that the Akazaya Nine will return to take his head. See Toki’s Dying Prophecy Casts Nine Shadows Across Twenty Years.

Wano Country (Ch. 935) — referenced (the young Oden admired Hyogoro)

• At the Flower Capital bathhouse, Robin’s group recalls: “When Lord Oden was young, he admired Boss Hyogoro’s character” — over 20 years ago (p. 14). A lineage tell linking the young Oden to the Flower-Capital yakuza boss.

Wano Country (Ch. 941) — referenced

• The funeral-broadcast crowd recalls that Lord Yasuie (Tonoyasu) of Hakumai “stood alongside Lord Oden and supported the Kozuki clan” — placing Oden at the head of an Oden-era daimyo alliance (p. 16).

Wano Country — Yasuie flashback (Ch. 943) — flashback cameo

• Appears in Yasuie’s Hakumai flashback (pp. 2–3): the young Oden is among the would-be-thief vassals the daimyo redeems with Hakumai’s funds, foretold to one day become Shogun of Wano. Flashback face only.

Wano Country — Udon (Ch. 949) — referenced (dead 20 years)

• Invoked on-page by Luffy as the great man Kaido killed “20 years ago” — “the day this country stopped working”; Luffy says he has “already heard about Oden” (p. 15). Recap of established info.

• Named-not-shown — invoked as the loyalists’ cause for the Onigashima raid: “I don’t intend to doubt Lord Oden.” (p. 12). The raid is launched in the Kozuki name to avenge him.

Journal prophecy revealed (Ch. 1000)

• Oden’s voyage journal is read on-page: it prophesies that in ~20 years the New World will be overrun by powerful new-generation pirates who “will be the ones to strike down Kaido” (pp. 10-11).
• Journal records “a great man who said the same thing” as Luffy — words “that stunned Oden” (the King of the Pirates / Roger, p. 8).
• Closing narration recaps Oden’s life and execution in the Flower Capital, “beloved by all” (p. 17).

Wano Country — recounted in the 20-year flashback (Ch. 1048)

• Kaido names him as the country’s hero who “was burned to death” 20 years ago, leaving Wano lawless. (p. 3–5)
• Flashback: his retainers scream for him to run; his clan is “thoroughly wiped out”; his infant heir Momonosuke is hunted; the regional daimyo rise to “avenge Oden’s death.” (p. 9–12)