Shirohara Shigekazu

The husband (married into her family) of the proprietress and owner of Hinawari Onsen. He is deeply religious.

He is thin and frail looking.

He does not serve customers. He is a misanthropist, quiet, gloomy, and intimidated of his beautiful, young wife.

He has a distorted sexual preference for voyeurism, cuckoldry, and bestiality, and although he has a sexual appetite, he will not engage in such acts with his own wife.