Renjou Kuhouin 九鳳院蓮丈

He is Murasaki's father who according to custom had to marry a woman named Kazuko. During her stay she abused Murasaki's real mother named Souju while taking the role of mother to herself to which she was not accustomed. Renjo in the meantime did nothing even when Souju, the woman he really loved, committed suicide.