Madam Shijimi

is the wife of the daimyō of the Land of Fire. Team Kakashi in Part I and Team Ebisu in Part II are assigned to find her lost cat, Tora, soon after becoming genin.

Appearance
Madam Shijimi is a corpulent woman with dark brown hair that she keeps in three separate poofs. She wears pink lipstick, pink nail-polish and purple eyeshadow. She also wears many different coloured rings.

Personality
She has been described as spendthrift, vain, and philanthropistic. She also loves her cat a lot, although the cat clearly does not share the same degree of affection to her.

Prologue — Land of Waves
She has a cat named Tora that runs away a lot and she hires Team 7 of konoha to find Tora for her. Tora is later returned to her.

Kazekage Rescue Mission
In the anime, Tora runs away again and she hires Team Ebisu to catch her cat. Tora is captured once again and returned to her.

Trivia

 * "Shijimi" (蜆) is the Japanese name for the "basket clam", a clam that can be used as an ingredient for Japanese food like, for example, miso soup.