Taishō ("Great Dog General") or Inu no Daiyōkai ("Great Dog-Demon"), was a powerful inu daiyōkai who was known quite well and feared throughout feudal Japan as being the very strongest of his kind. He fathered two sons, the firstborn of which was the powerful inu daiyōkai Sesshōmaru, mothered by a female inu daiyōkai, his first wife, His second son was the inu hanyō Inuyasha who was born from the human woman Izayoi, Tōga's second wife.