Asakura Yohmei

Asakura Yohmei(麻倉葉明, Asakura Yōmei) is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Shaman King. He is Asakura Yoh's and Asakura Hao's maternal grandfather and is the current head of the Asakura Family.

Appearance
He has white puffy hair with a bald area on the top of his head and black eyes and he wears traditional Japanese style clothing. In his youth his hair was black and Yohmei claims that he had not a single balding spot back then.

Abilities and Powers
Yohmei is an onmyōji who specializes in divination, and fortune telling. His abilities are so skilled that he is employed by numerous important politicians. However, as explained by himself, the future cannot be seen clearly and as such he can only gaze into what might be a possible future.

Shamanic Spells and Techniques
Using his knowledge in onmyōjutsu, he is able to see small glimpses into possible futures.
 * Onmyōjutsu (Yin and Yang Technique)

By using a Shikigami summoning technique, which is his speciality, Yohmei can create and control any number of these small Over Souls using small leaves as their mediums. Yohmei almost constantly uses these, even outside of combat, to do small tasks like fetching items, holding the newspaper, and so forth. However, if he so wishes they can send verbal messages or even kill people, if they have sufficient numbers. These spirits don't appear to be particularly smart.-
 * Shikigami Kooni

This is Yohmei's favoured technique which creates countless Shikigami Kooni, that he can then use to surround an opponent and attack them from all directions at once.
 * Asakura Shiki Onmyō Jutsu - Hyaku Shikigami (Asakura Style Yin and Yang Technique - Hundred Shikigami Kooni)

Past
Yohmei was born on July 2, 1919. He foresaw that Asakura Hao was inside the womb of his daughter Keiko when she was pregnant, so he planned to kill the child as soon as it was born. However, when they discovered she was carrying twins, Yohmei reluctantly decided he would rather kill both of them than risk allowing Hao to be reborn. But during the birth, Yohmei hesitated for a moment as he was hit with remorse for killing his own grandchildren, and that moment was all that Hao needed to summon the Spirit of Fire and protect himself.

When Yoh was young, it was Yohmei who brought him up and trained him due to the long absences of Mikihisa and Keiko's busy schedule. Yohmei had a very hard time though due to of Yoh's lazyness and stubbornness.

Shaman Fights First Round
Yohmei was the one who suggested that Yoh should go inside the Yomi's Hole in order to improve his furyoku.

Shaman Fights Second Round
Near the end of the second rounds, did Yohmei and the rest of her family, including the returned spirit of Asakura Yohken have a final meeting with the Tao Family. When he mentioned the incident at the beach earlier, Mikihisa presented the badly hurt Brocken Meyer to the Tao Family and explained his connection to Hao. They also hoped that they could learn something important by making him talk.

Invading the Plants
When the Shaman Fights was moved to the "Continent of Mu" the Asakura Family, the Tao Family and the Usui Family had a barbecue party at the beach, awaiting the results of the fight and hoping that their children would make it.

Flowers
In Shaman King Flowers, Yohmei warned Tammo about the branch Asakura family who will challenge Hana before Yohmei passed away.



Trivia

 * A running gag in the anime is whenever Yohmei does something wrong, Asakura Kino will hit him in the face with her cane.