Quote:And it's also mentioned he was a songwriter.
(he appeared with a ladle a one point, didn't he?)
He does refer to himself as "...Ikkyu, I'm the one with the bamboo ladle."
But he never is shown with this. To my knowledge, He only carried three items of note in the OAVs- the aforementioned skull-headed staff, a scroll from which he conjured an illusory tiger to distract Yomiko, and a bomb that Nancy relieved him of at the end of the 3rd episode.
Interestingly, he must have more than one copy of that skull headed staff, because he killed Genjo at the end of ep #2 with one which was promptly lost underwater. He had another one in Ep#3 that hid a sword within it. It also had what apparently was something like a little flame-thrower or chemical igniter that burned Yomiko's paper and gave off a greenish fire.
-Logan