Tanyuu is the fourth and current Scribe of the Karibusa family. A Karibusa Scribe is a person with a special coal-like birthmark. The birthmark contains a type of Mushi called The Forbidden Mushi. The curse is located on her right leg.

Tanyuu is a kind person who, despite the amount of hardship that the Mushi have brought on her life, is extremely attached to them. For this reason, she hates having to hear stories about Mushi being treated as lesser than humans or as vermin that need to be killed. She loves hearing stories about Mushi from [Ginko](https://anilist.co/character/425/Ginko) because unlike most Mushishi, he is attached to Mushi and understands that Mushi are not just evil creatures, but simply living creatures trying to survive. She is efficient and talented at her job, something she initially hated as a child but grew to love, and is proud but compassionate towards those she loves.

A cursed Mushi that once nearly brought the destruction of all of life is sealed in her right leg and she is upset that this Mushi is the reason her current guardian and the Minai family line are suffering. She often worries more about others than herself but does lament the inability to use her leg. Tanyuu's deepest desire is to complete the sealing away of the forbidden Mushi and to be freed to travel with Ginko.

(Source: Mushishi Wiki, edited)

Neither good nor evil, they are life in its purest form. Vulgar and strange, they have inspired fear in humans since the dawn of time and have, over the ages, come to be known as "mushi." The stories of the Mushi and the people they affect are all linked together by a traveling Mushi-shi, or "Mushi Master," who seeks rare Mushi sightings and uses his shaman-like knowledge of Mushi to help the affected people. 
 
What are the Mushi and what do they want? 
 
(Source: Funimation)

**Hobbies:** Shopping, Singing, Watching movies 
**Height:** 153 cm

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi—creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze. They still exist parallel to our own lives and can only be seen by a select few. As a mushishi, Ginko is one of the few who are aware of their existense, and this young man with a sardonic smile roams from place to place with the knowledge and skill to aid those unwittingly affected by mushi.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 
Note: Won the Excellence Prize for Manga at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2003 and the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2006.

When an eclipse occurs, the sun remains dark in one area. The mushi expert Ginko must come and determine how to return the sun to the village before their crops die. The secret seems connected to twin girls who live nearby. 
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Unaired episode of Mushishi Zoku Shou bundled with anime's third Blu-ray/DVD volume. 
 
Adapts "Odoro no Michi" (Path of Thorns) manga chapters.

Tanyuu Karibusa