Ghost of Yotei focuses on the concept of the Ghost rather than one character like Jin Sakai. Atsu, a female ronin in 1603 ... women in samurai roles, known as "onna-musha," certainly existed ...

said Benoit. "It's not really representing what the samurai and the shinobi are if it's the same character." "[The samurai] was sort of diluting the ninja a bit, but we wanted to do the samurai.