Sanae Kochiya

1. #1Sanae Kochiya

   Keys: Sanae

   Sanae Kochiya is confident, energetic and dutiful, sometimes too much so, and tends to get carried away easily or have trouble thinking for herself. She also appears to be something of a geek, making references to popular culture and having knowledge of advanced scientific concepts. As someone who grew up in the Outside World, much of Gensokyo seems strange and novel to her; she finds great fun in "exterminating" youkai and solving incidents. She also may have somewhat of a complex about herself as an incident resolver, thinking foes won't take her as seriously as the other experienced youkai exterminators. The simple fact that she is adjusting to life in Gensokyo makes her an extremely rare case.

   Sanae is capable of invoking miracles through her godly heritage, and many of her spell cards are themed after miracles of various religions or odd events. It's mainly the manipulation of weather, and also seems to use it in prayers for rain. The "miracles" that she can invoke are not related to good or bad fortune – they are merely events that have a very low chance of occurring. Before invoking a miracle, she needs time to prepare it proportional to how unlikely the miracle is. Simple ones can be invoked with a single word, while the most complex can take days.}}Sanae is a shrine maiden, but of a different type to Reimu Hakurei. Like Reimu she is capable of summoning gods, granting her some of their powers; while she relies on this ability much more than Reimu, she is only capable of summoning her patrons: Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya.

   Sanae wears a blue and white outfit similar to a shrine maiden's, with the blue areas covered in light blue polka dots and stripes. She has long light green hair and green eyes, Sanae wears a snake-shaped hair accessory wrapped around her hair on one side, and a blue headband with a frog's head on it (both probably meant to represent Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya).

2. #2Suwako Moriya

   Keys: Suwako

   Suwako Moriya (洩矢　諏訪子 Moriya Suwako) is the original god of the Moriya Shrine. Officially the shrine now belongs to Kanako Yasaka, but in Suwako's words she handles most of the divine services while Kanako handles the "sales" However, Kanako and the shrine maiden, Sanae Kochiya, carry out the duties of gathering faith. She doesn't come forth of her own volition often. Whether it is because she is bad at marketing faith by herself or some other reason is one of the mysteries of the Moriya Shrine.

   In contrast to Kanako, Suwako is more laid back and mischievous. She enjoys competing against others, and loses gracefully. Though she feigns ignorance, Suwako is just as capable of scheming as Kanako. Combined with her rarely leaving the shrine, her intentions can be hard to read.

   Suwako's ability specifically refers to the element of Kun (坤), one of the eight trigrams in Taoist philosophy that means creating Earth. Kun is exactly the pinnacle of the native god and is associated with acceptance, devotion, subtlety, flexibility, and reacting to others rather than acting first. Kanako Yasaka's ability to create the "heavenliness" of Bagua, or Qian (乾), refers to the opposite element. Although Mountain of Faith offers little insight into the nature of Suwako's abilities, her attack animations in Touhou Hisoutensoku depict her "swimming" through the ground, summoning magma, geysers, various rocks and minerals, growing plants instantly, and bending rivers.

   Possibly because of her ability to manipulate minerals, Suwako uses large iron rings as weapons in various attacks. Aya Shameimaru mentions that weapon isn't a kanawa, Japanese Chakram-like weapon, because of the way she throws it. According to Hatate Himekaidou, they are scarily sharp.

   is revealed that during ancient times, Suwako was a ruler of a small kingdom and controlled the Mishaguji, who were curse gods that had obtained enormous amounts of faith, cursing birth, harvests, militaries, and many other things. Only Suwako was able to tame them. However, gods from the Yamato (Ancient Japan) invaded her kingdom, saying that they were going to unify all the kingdoms to create a single country known as Japan. Unwilling to let this happen, Suwako resisted and fought with the finest steel weapons of the time. However, Kanako held out a thin vine, and Suwako's large steel arsenal instantly rusted away. Suwako realized the difference in their divine powers and her defeat; she graciously forfeited and relinquished her kingdom.

   Suwako wears a short simple purplish-blue dress with a frog print design, large white sleeves stitched onto the torso, and a white collar. She has medium length blond hair, grey eyes, a light brown wide-brimmed hat with two frog eyes on the top, white kneehighs and black shoes.

3. #3Reimu

   Keys: Reimu, Hakurei

   Reimu is a young years old Human Shrine Maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, she manages the Hakurei Border of Gensokyo and exterminates troublesome youkai. Although Reimu try some plans to get money her shrine usually don't gets so much donations and has lack of people in her shrine, making her a loner on the majority of the time.

   Reimu has long brown-black hair and scarlet red eyes. Reimu wears a large red ribbon at the back of her head, and red tubes on her sidelocks. Reimu wears a "shrine maiden uniform", with the standard uniform beyond the red-and-white colour scheme. This uniform consists of a red skirt (rather than the standard hakama), a sleeveless red top with a white collar, tied with a ribbon whose color varies across games, and a pair of white detached sleeves which exposes her sarashi. Due to the color scheme, she's occasionally called the "red-white shrine maiden". Her shaman clothing and her purification rod came from Rinnosuke Morichika, but it's unknown who designs them.

   Reimu Hakurei personality is typified by her desires, such as the desire to be wanted, to have good food, and to find happiness. Her biggest internal conflict comes from balancing her duties as the Hakurei shrine maiden and her own desires, though she does not seem to prefer acknowledging many of her internal conflicts.

   Her duty as the shrine maiden gives Reimu a sense of purpose and identity, however, it conflicts with her desires in that it distances her from others and has her dealing with incidents and other related problems on a frequent basis. Despite her duty making it seem as though she antagonizes youkai, in truth, she wishes for peace between humans and youkai.

   Reimu is generally a joyful and airheaded person. She’s also incredibly prideful and quite arrogant due to it. She’s often seen in a good mood until her routines are broken by some outside influence, be it a youkai or the like. She is quick to anger, but she’s also quick to forget.

   The first Ability of Reimu is float. While many inhabitants of Gensokyo are capable of flying, Reimu's ability extends beyond that; she is someone who excels at floating through life, displaying a level of oneness with her surroundings that has been compared to a hermit. While she "goes with the flow" Reimu displays superhuman instincts and incredible luck, naturally ending up on the path of least resistance through most situations; conversely, when distracted or acting with impure motives she quickly loses her edge. On one occasion observers saw Reimu dodging an attack "like she was made of air" while Reimu herself saw the attack swerving to avoid her; on another Reimu unknowingly walked across a river without getting wet, by stepping on fish that swam beneath her feet. This also makes Reimu's techniques extremely hard for Marisa Kirisame to learn from, since even Reimu herself has trouble explaining what she's doing.

   The Second Ability of Reimu is Aura Manipulation. Reimu can control the natural spirits of living things, an ability which isn't listed in any source afterwards.

   As the Hakurei shrine maiden, Reimu can handle the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orbs, and is trained in youkai extermination techniques as well as standard duties like performing blessings. Reimu is also capable of channeling Gensokyo's gods, but she isn't well-trained enough to do so reliably.

   Reimu displays great aptitude with magical barriers (beyond that normally associated with shrine maidens), presumably related to her work in maintaining the Great Hakurei Barrier. Among her techniques are barriers that explode, push enemies (or herself), or allow her to teleport. Reimu is capable of dismantling barriers and seals too complex for Marisa Kirisame and Patchouli Knowledge to understand, with what Marisa calls her "cheat technique".

   Reimu has abilities based on the "Gap Woman" urban legend. This allowed her to open gaps similar to the ones used by Yukari Yakumo, which she used as portals for herself or to attack.

   Reimu is the shrine maiden of the Hakurei Shrine, and one of the main "incident resolvers" in Gensokyo. She and others characterize the time she spends at the shrine as largely boring and uneventful. While she is sometimes serious about her duties, she can't seem to get many worshippers at her shrine. It appears that youkai extermination is her only method of earning even a thin salary.

   Yukari Yakumo describes Reimu's job as not being that of a youkai exterminator, but rather a "balancer between humans and youkai", who prevents youkai from attacking humans and humans from becoming youkai. Reimu as frequently coming up with various schemes to make money, which generally fail due to her own lack of foresight.

   Reimu uses the Yin-Yang Orbs in combat, But they also functioned as communicators with people above the surface. In addition, she usually carries a gohei, sometimes referred to as her purification rod, originally prepared by Rinnosuke Morichika.

   She also possesses a great amount of ofuda, sacred paper charms with anti-youkai properties that she uses to fight, seal or exterminate youkai of any kind in her danmaku. Apparently, she can also use them to create barriers and even clones of herself.

4. #4Kanako Yasaka

   Keys: Kanako, Yasaka

   Kanako Yasaka is the current goddess of the Moriya Shrine after defeating its previous resident goddess Suwako Moriya in the Great Suwa War. She desires to collect large amounts of faith, but since the humans of the Outside World no longer place much importance on gods, she has transported the shrine to Gensokyo. She currently lives on top of the Youkai Mountain, where she has an uneasy relationship with the leaders of the tengu.

   Kanako is an ambitious woman who treats religion like a business, using whatever means bring her the most "profit" - that profit being instead faith. She has a natural presence that can seem intimidating or suspicious at times, but also reliable. Unusually for a god she has little respect for tradition - she demands little formality in her worship, and encourages scientific progress. It is somewhat strange for a deity to be knowledgeable and interested about science.

   She has no hostility towards humans, though as is the case with all deities, she may curse them if they are disrespectful. She also seems to be rather short-tempered, but she is vulnerable to gifts.

   Kanako's ability specifically refers to the element of Qian (乾), the "sky" of Bagua in Taoist philosophy. Qian is associated with creation, leadership, overtness, reliability, and acting first rather than reacting to others. Suwako Moriya's ability to create Kun (坤, earth), refers to the opposite element.

   She is at least called "wind god", so it may be a power to manipulate wind, rain, and weather. For Kanako to be a god of agriculture, to manipulate the wind and rain and make the soil plentiful would definitely be the quickest and easiest way to quickly and easily gather faith.

   this ability of hers is still very much a mystery. Concerning what kind of power this is, since there is nothing that seems like a portrayal of this, it is not definite, but it is probably a power unimaginable to humans. After all, perhaps wind god→climate→air=sky. She has been seen altering the terrain with Suwako's help, opening holes to the underground, and even creating large structures. She helped build the Myouren Temple, as well.

   Kanako is currently the deity of the Moriya Shrine, and lives with Suwako Moriya, the de facto ruler of the shrine, and Sanae Kochiya, a wind priestess. She generally seems to spend her time implementing new ways to gain faith from those who live outside the Youkai Mountain.

   Kanako's shimenawa represents the figure of an entwined snake, which in turn represents resurrection, rebirth, and eternity through the repeated shedding of its own skin. She also possesses onbashira, which she apparently uses in traditional festivals to toss off of cliffs.

   Kanako has an elaborate red shirt with long white sleeves and a round mirror over the center of her chest. She wears a long black skirt with a red flower print hem. Has poofy intense blue hair and dark red eyes. Behind her is a large twisting rope circle shimenawa with shide.

5. #5Danmakuconstant

   Keys: Danmaku, Bullets, Magic, Spar, Projectiles, Missiles · Secondary: Duel, Battle, Fight

   danmaku is incorporated into the setting itself, where it is essentially a supernatural martial art practiced by the inhabitants of Gensokyo.

   Danmaku is a kind of magic exclusive from Gensokyo culture which its user can use to shoot at the rival and damage, if the rival be defeated, the loser will explode in a bright light and then appear again like a signal that annouce who got defeated and who was the winner.

   Under the spell card rules, danmaku duels are not to the death, but are ritualized and aestheticized sparring matches with agreed-upon conditions for winning and losing.

   Danmakus can be transformed in other things that can also be used in battles, such as wind, water or more. In case of Aya Shameimaru, she uses her Danmaku as wind waves, and as an another example, there is Kigase, which uses her Danmaku to turn in water droplets to shoot. The list of uses in combat is extense, with more examble being Marisa shooting stars, Reimu shooting amulets, and more on.

6. #6Spell Cardconstant

   Keys: Magic, Cards, Spellcards, Spell, Sign, Signal, Recitation · Secondary: Recitation, Sinal

   Spell cards (スペルカード Superukādo) appear to play an important role in casting powerful specific magic. During a spell card trance, the user's offensive and defensive capabilities appear to increase greatly. In some cases, the user becomes completely invincible for the duration of the trance. However, the user may only cast the spell that was specified by the spell card until the trance ends, limiting its overall usefulness.

   The spell card system was developed by Reimu Hakurei (however, the original draft being written on a youkai contract has called this into question) and first used in the Scarlet Mist Incident. They were designed to give even weak youkai and humans a chance to win, as well as to provide youkai a way to defeat the Hakurei Shrine in a fair duel. This reason was explicitly used in Silent Sinner in Blue incident, where Marisa Kirisame convinced Watatsuki no Yorihime to use the spell card rules in order to make fights equal and, as Yorihime puts it, to prevent bloodshed.

   During the Silent Sinner in Blue occurence, Marisa Kirisame describes them in terms similar to a regular duel: You must dodge your opponents or be crushed by them. However, the difference between spell cards and a normal duel is that "the most beautiful one wins. It's a very mental contest." Reisen Udongein Inaba clarifies that "beautiful" in part means without dirty tricks. As it seems in the following, spell cards regulate rules for the time a duel is held such as: Used equipment, a time limit, winning and losing conditions and restrictions (mostly for the dodging part).

   Spell cards however don't seem to be limited to magic. Sanae Kochiya is able to call upon the power of a god, while Nitori Kawashiro or Marisa are able to use equipment, such as the Mini-Hakkero. Everything that can be used as an attack counts as a spell card, including everyday objects. Kogasa Tatara throws umbrellas in some of her spell cards while Minoriko Aki uses potatoes. Not having such equipment cannot create unique spell cards. If Marisa didn't have her Hakkero, then she wouldn't able to use her Master Spark.

   Spell cards were initially described as pieces of paper bearing the descriptions of their respective spells (along with the possible approval of the shrine maiden).

7. #7selective

   Keys: Reisen, Udongein · Secondary: disableddisableddisabled

   Reisen Udongein Inaba is a moon rabbit. She is able to manipulate wavelengths for sound, light & brainwaves using her eyes. She lives in Eientei, in the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. Reisen is socially anxious, but tries her best to be useful. She was the the pet of the Watatsuki sisters and a Lunar Defense Corps soldier but deserted. Now, she is Eirin's apprentice and Kaguya's pet. Tewi often harasses Reisen but they still consider each other friends. She sells medicine in the Human Village. Reisen is tall, has red eyes & long lavender hair with long, slender rabbit ears decorated with a button at their base. Reisen wears a business suit with a black vest with a crescent moon pin, a white shirt, a red tie, a white skirt, white socks and black loafers.

8. #8selective

   Keys: Eirin, Yagokoro · Secondary: disableddisableddisabled

   Eirin Yagokoro is a lunarian exiled to Gensokyo with Kaguya. She can make any medicine and is incomprehensibly old. She lives in Eientei. Eirin is enigmatic but polite. She is a genius but conceited and condescending about her greater knowledge. Reisen is her apprentice. She is tall, has dark grey eyes and long silver hair in a braid. She wears a red and blue dress decorated with constellations and wears a nurse cap with a similar pattern. She carries a bow and arrow. She may be the god Omoikane.

9. #9selective

   Keys: Mugenkan, Garden of the Sun

   Mugenkan is a mysterious western-style mansion located in Garden of the Sun. Yuuka Kazami and Elly live there.

10. #10selective

    Keys: Bhavaagra, Celestial

    Celestials are humans who have ascended to Heaven and live as powerful immortals. They were once hermits that were promoted or average humans who performed a glorious deed. Celestial flesh is poisonous to youkai.

11. #11selective

    Keys: Hermit

    Hermits are powerful mortals who have undergone religious training to achieve supernatural powers. Hermits are able to live thousands of years without being immortal. Hermit flesh is known to turn animals into youkai and can enhance a youkai's form or power.

12. #12selective

    Keys: human, Human

    Humans in Gensokyo are people who use faith based attacks rather than technology to exterminate youkai. Their technology is similar to the feudal era of Japan's. Youkai are forbidden from killing humans that are born in Gensokyo. With the exception of the more powerful ones, most humans live in the relative safety of the Human Village.

13. #13selective

    Keys: Lunarian

    Lunarians are humans from the moon who loathe anything that's not pure, which is pretty much everything on Earth. They live for centuries due to their advanced technology.

14. #14selective

    Keys: Outsider, outside world, outsider, Outside World

    Outsiders are from the Outside World. They are generally humans who can easily be killed since they lack faith in deities. They have no knowledge about Gensokyo and are usually preyed on by youkai. The best bet for outsiders is to head to the Hakurei Shrine or Human Village, where they will be safe.

15. #15selective

    Keys: Android

    Androids are humanoids that are powered by a nuclear power core. They possess incredible strength, but require fuel from Hell to work.

16. #16selective

    Keys: Demon

    Demons are from Makai and created by Shinki. Demons are known to be quite aggressive and usually have wings.

17. #17selective

    Keys: Divine spirit

    Divine spirits are the spirit of humans who have achieved godhood. They are seen as gods and can gather faith like them. Divine spirits can also be Vengeful.

18. #18selective

    Keys: Dragon

    Dragons are divine creatures found in Gensokyo. They are considered to be gods. Dragons are mostly mythical and have rarely been observed.

19. #19selective

    Keys: God, faith, deity, Goddess

    Gods are created from faith and gain sustenance from it. As long as they have faith, they are immortal. Their strength ranges from weak to overwhelmingly powerful, depending on how much faith they receive. If a god runs out of faith, they will fade away.

20. #20selective

    Keys: Inchling

    Inchlings are very tiny people that live in the Shining Needle Castle. They are the only ones who can wield the miracle mallet.

21. #21selective

    Keys: Kishin

    Kishin are wrathful gods that reside in Hell and are tasked to hunt down hermits and celestials who have lived too long to send them to Nirvana.

22. #22selective

    Keys: Komainu

    Komainu are noble guardians in the form of lion dogs who guard holy areas in Gensokyo.

23. #23selective

    Keys: Lampad, Hell Fairy

    Lampads are fairies from Hell who serve Hecatia Lapislazuli. They wield torches that can turn people insane.

24. #24selective

    Keys: Oni

    Oni are horned youkai who love to drink and feast. Oni live in Former Hell. They have tremendous physical strength and magic power. Oni cannot go near sardine heads, broken holly branches, and roasted soybeans or they risk being burned.

25. #25selective

    Keys: Phantom

    Phantoms are standard ghostly spirits, which take the form of semi-tangible wisps. Phantoms are cold to the touch, and a group of phantoms can reduce the surrounding temperature to freezing levels.

26. #26selective

    Keys: Poltergeist

    Poltergeists are ghosts that were created artificially through magic. They are able to float around and interact with objects to scare people.

27. #27selective

    Keys: Shikigami

    Shikigami are youkai familiars. They are summoned to serve. The shikigami's power increases when they follow their master, and decreases if they shirk their duties.

28. #28selective

    Keys: Yatagarasu

    Yatagarasu is a divine three-legged crow that lives in the sun. It was devoured by Reiuji.

29. #29selective

    Keys: Amanojaku

    Amanojaku are oni-like creatures that easily frustrate people. They think in reverse, see the positive as negative and vice versa. This mindset makes them unable to have friends.

30. #30selective

    Keys: Baku

    The Baku are the rulers and residents of the Dream World. They can create, change, and erase dreams at will. They have a human form with an ox tail.

31. #31selective

    Keys: Crow Tengu

    Crow tengu are tengu with crow wings. They mostly gather information around Gensokyo. They rank above the wolf tengu, and are led by Megumu.

32. #32selective

    Keys: Ghost

    Ghosts in Gensokyo are spirits of humans. Ghosts are unable to pass through walls. They wander around in the Netherworld. They can look like humans. Showing ghosts their dead body can turn them into a phantom. Giving a ghost proper memorial can let them reach Nirvana.

33. #33selective

    Keys: Great Tengu

    Great tengu are the management types in the tengu hierarchy who oversee the activities of the other tengu on Youkai Mountain. They're somewhat larger than other tengu. Great tengu usually try to prevent tengu and oni from being friends.

34. #34selective

    Keys: Half-Youkai

    Half youkai are either youkai who are part human and can transform into a youkai form or just plain humans with exceptional capabilities.

35. #35selective

    Keys: Hashihime

    Hashihime are female youkai who live under bridges and will try to break up couples who cross the bridge or threaten to kill them. They use the powers of jealousy.

36. #36selective

    Keys: Hobgoblin

    Hobgoblins are youkai that work at Scarlet Devil Mansion. They are small, peaceful creatures. Hobgoblins have green skin, pointy ears and small horns. They love food.

37. #37selective

    Keys: Kappa

    Kappa in Gensokyo live at the base of the Youkai Mountain around rivers and lakes. They are genius inventors and technicians. They are rivals with Yamawaro, but are better at making things than selling them.

38. #38selective

    Keys: Kirin

    Kirin are prophetic creatures who are never late, very wise, and always careful about everything. They are horse-like chimeras but can look human as well.

39. #39selective

    Keys: Karakasa, obake

    Karakasa obake are tsukumogami umbrellas with a long tongue and one eye. They can take a humanoid form where they carry their umbrella self around.

40. #40selective

    Keys: Kotofurunushi

    Kotofurunushi are a type of tsukumogami born from traditional Japanese Kotos.

41. #41selective

    Keys: long-nose tengu, long nose tengu

    Long-nose tengu specialize in business work such as stock marketing or some other economic office job. Long-nose tengu are rarely seen nowadays, since they make maps for the "Gottsui Positioning System".

42. #42selective

    Keys: Menreiki

    Menreiki are born from a collection of masks turned into youkai. Menreiki are emotionless and represent their feelings with their masks.

43. #43selective

    Keys: Mermaid

    Mermaids have a human upper body, a fish-like tail, and fishfins for ears. Mermaids normally reside in the Misty Lake.

44. #44selective

    Keys: Night Sparrow

    Night sparrows are birds living in the valley of Gensokyo. They can cause insanity and blindness when they sing. They can take a human shape.

45. #45selective

    Keys: Nyuudou

    Nyuudou are monks who hide their head and become violent if they are forced to expose their face, but they can be calmed by praising their foresight.

46. #46selective

    Keys: Satori

    Satori are youkai who can read minds via a "third eye". Satori normally reside in the Underworld. Pretty much everyone is wary of them.

47. #47selective

    Keys: Rokurokubi

    Rokurokubi are a type of youkai in Gensokyo resembling humans who can extend their necks or take off their heads on command.

48. #48selective

    Keys: Ship Phantom

    Ship phantoms are the ghosts of people who drowned at sea. They carry around a ladle that can sink ships and drown humans who come too close.

49. #49selective

    Keys: Tengu

    The tengu in Gensokyo are known to spread gossip and drink a lot. They live on the tall heights of the Youkai Mountain. They are the fastest type of youkai.

50. #50selective

    Keys: Tsuchigumo

    Tsuchigumo are spider youkai and great builders. They normally live in subterranean areas but sometimes live in forests or surface caves. Tsuchigumo can create webs strong as steel.

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