Raika (蕾火)

Raika (蕾火) is a Japanese kinbakushi in the Akechi lineage.

Era: 1990s

KINBAKUSHI · MISTRESS

Japanese mistress, kinbakushi and late-Akechi-lineage performer active from the mid-1990s to 2015. Nawapedia says she started as mistress Runa Tsuruki in 1994, met Denki Akechi in 1995 and became his student, succeeded to the Akechi name in 1996, published how-to work under Raika Akechi and returned the Akechi name after his 2005 death. Existing Akechi source notes already distinguish Raika from weaker late-lineage claims: public sources frame her as one of Akechi's formal women students, making her materially stronger than ordinary stage-roster context.

School: Akechi lineage

Teachers / direct apprenticeship lineage: Akechi Denki.