Otsuru
- Name
- 鶴 (O-Tsuru)
- Status
- alive
- First seen
- Ch. 913
O-Tsuru · Tsuru (Wano) · alive · teahouse owner of Okobore Town, Kuri
Name-pin: DISTINCT from the Marine Vice-Admiral Tsuru (“Great Staff Officer”). Her intro line is “My name is Tsuru,” but she is a separate entity — NEVER merge.
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Kind, dignified owner of a teahouse in Okobore Town (“the town of leftover scraps”) in Kuri, Wano Country. The “crane” of the chapter title (“Tsuru” = crane). Carries an unusual calm authority for a scrap-town teahouse keeper.
Arc-by-arc updates
Wano Country (Ch. 1056) — referenced, not shown
- Reported to have survived with a terrible burn on her face, though Okobore Town burned to the ground; Kin’emon longs to be at her side (pp.2–3).
Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1011)
- Referenced in Otama’s recollection / Okobore flashback as the “busybody O-Tsuru” who took in the amnesiac “Olin” (pp. 16-17). (Flashback reference — no present-day
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Oden flashback — young Tsuru, Kin’emon’s beloved (Ch. 961)
- As a young woman she is taken hostage by Kin’emon’s thieving gang during the Mountain God incident (pp. 5, 16); she is the “Tsuru” Kin’emon is devoted to. Reunites with Kin’emon, crying, after Oden’s rescue (p. 16).
Wano — Oden flashback (youth) (Ch. 960)
- Shown in her youth running the “teahouse at the cape,” captioned “Waitress — Miss Tsuru” (p. 3). Greets the three hunters and exposes Kin’emon’s thieving (“You were just taking money from my purse again, weren’t you?!”); the two have known each other since they were kids (p. 5).
Wano Country — Kin’emon’s wife (Ch. 959)
- Explicitly captioned “Otsuru, Kin’emon’s wife” (p. 9) — confirming on-page the marriage flagged Ch. 922.
- Shelters the people of Okobore Town from Holdem, offering to divert him with a long trip rather than let him find out about the alliance; the townsfolk beg her not to sacrifice herself to cover for them (pp. 8–9).
Wano Country (Ch. 913) — first appearance
- Introduced as the woman Zoro rescued from bandits earlier; she had been riding hidden inside Komachiyo’s tail the whole time (p. 14). Recognizes the “Green One” and offers to tend his wounds — “allow me to return the favor.”
- Recognizes Otama of Amigasa Village, deduces she has been drinking from the poisoned river (“So she has been drinking from the river!”), and offers her “evil-purging” antidote herbs (pp. 14–17). Accepts Luffy’s thanks (“We’d appreciate the help!!”). See Kaido’s Factory Poisons The Rivers Of Wano.
Wano Country (Ch. 914)
- Runs the Okobore teahouse; insists on feeding the charity-shy Otama a birthday meal of oshiruko (“What kind of woman sets out food for a hungry person, and then takes ‘no thanks’ for an answer?!”, pp. 4-6).
- Targeted by Bat-Man for “badmouthing the Shogun”; saved when Zoro deflects his arrows (“She would have died if it had hit her!!!”, pp. 10-11).
Wano Country (Ch. 917)
- Appears amid the famine in the starving Okobore Town crowd, urgently asking for “evil-purging herbs” (p. 2) — reprising the antidote-keeper role as Wano’s two-tier economy (clean Paradise Farm tribute vs. starving Okobore) is laid out.
Wano Country (Ch. 922)
- In Okobore Town as Kaido’s dragon descends; urged to flee (“Otsuru, you should clear outta here!!” — “I know…”), p. 7.
- Revealed to be the “Tsuru” Kin’emon vows to save — his old connection of 20 years past, now remarried (p. 10).
Wano Country (Ch. 924)
- In Okobore Town, a cloaked Ashura Doji has secretly delivered relief food and watches her from hiding, longing to reunite “once Lord Oden’s wishes are accomplished” (“still beautiful, 20 years later”); she frets the relief food went to waste in the attack and calls the benefactor “a kind-hearted fellow” (pp. 7-8).
Wano Country (Ch. 933)
- In Okobore Town she feeds the amnesiac Big Mom (“Olin”) her last bowl of oshiruko — the kindly teahouse keeper again sharing her scraps with a stranger (p. 17). Her companions then resolve to lure the memory-wiped Emperor toward Udon. See Amnesiac Big Mom Lured Toward Udon Sets Up A Prison Collision.