Okay, you know how feminine Kyuemon looks, and how interviews about the show implied that said character was a girl?

We were totally wrong. This is a scan of "her" original human form.

As you can see, that is quite clearly a guy.

After looking at images of Kyuemon, I'm wondering why they even called "her" a girl in the first place. Kyuemon looks like an overly-dressed male kabuki actor, which makes sense when using ninjas as a theme.