Nizaemon Yamamura

Nizaemon Yamamura is a character from the one-shot Rohan at the Louvre.

History
Around 310 years prior to the events in Rohan at the Louvre Yamamura married Nanase Kishibe. Yamamura had discovered a pigment of a unknown blackness in the trunk of a tree and extracted it to use in his work "Under the Moon", a painting that featured Nanase. Unfortunately, the tree was ancient and chopping it down was forbidden by decree, and so Nizaemon was executed just after his wedding with Nanase. According to legend, Yamamura had drawn the most evil and black painting in the world. That's because, due to the hatred Yamamura held while he was executed, that hate was transfered to the painting, giving it life and a murderous intent. It attacks its victims by using their sins, making creatures out of its victims memories to mimic the appearances of a relative or close person the victim may held some sin.

According to Rohan's research, the pigment that Nizaemon extracted from the 2000 years old tree came from a substance taken from insects living in the very core of the millenium trunk. These infinitely black creatures, ressembling spiders, were hidden in the darness since the dawn of time. Yamamura's hate for having met his fate was sealed forever in his painting, made from an infinite creativity. When a living being draws near, the painting perceives the heat or the breath of life, this way, when someone tries to take a closer look at it, these monsters awaken, making one with the hate of the artist. The remains of these creatures, contained in this black color, attack the person through their memories of their ancestors, carved forever in their flesh. In 1989 it was acquired by the Louvre museum and kept in the Z-13 warehouse, which later was abandoned. For unknown reasons, the painting was the only one not moved to a safer place.

Rohan at the Louvre
Rohan Kishibe, Gaucher, Noguchi and two firefighters go to Z-13 at the Louvre to investigate Yamamura's painting. Aside from Rohan, everyone was killed by its creatures before the stand user erased his own memories. After escaping, Rohan tried to find out what happened to the painting, but didn't believe what he had come across: it was incinerated after analisys by scientists