Hina Kagiyama

Character: Hina Kagiyama Hina's personality is typically friendly and sociable. She considers herself a friend among humans and often tries to help them by scaring them away from the mountain or carrying their misfortune to the gods. Such as when she tries to warn Reimu or Marisa that going up the mountain is dangerous when they are first in the Great Youkai Forest. Hina cares a lot about the environment and will turn turn objects of misfortune that float down the river into Nagashibina to remove their misfortune. Hina possesses the ability to store and manage misfortune inside herself. By people's exorcism, she collects misfortune, and is able to stockpile it in her surroundings. Misfortune in her surroundings possesses power to give any kind of human or youkai misfortune, which causes misfortune to humans and youkai that come near her. However, this does not mean she stockpiles the misfortune in herself, and since it is always in the "surroundings" that she stockpiles the misfortune, she definitely does not become misfortune herself. Hina may be a misfortune god but as she doesn't collect faith or have any shrines dedicated to her, she is more of a god in name rather than nature.

The misfortune that she takes up from humans is given over to other gods. She holds no ill will towards humans, however, and amasses misfortune merely as a way of preventing it from befalling others. The negative energy of misfortune is what gives Hina her power. As one that stores the misfortune, it can be said that from a certain point of view, she also possesses good fortune.

In order to amass this misfortune, she collects the Nagashi-bina dolls in which humans use to put their own misfortune and float downstream.

Hina is a misfortune goddess (厄神 yakujin). By utilizing the Japanese ritual nagashi-bina (流し雛) – a custom which people transfer their impurity (穢れ kegare) and misfortune (厄 yaku) on to a hina doll (雛人形 hina ningyou) and then putting it into a river to be carried away – she collects the misfortune by gathering the hina dolls at the downstream. Appearance: In Mountain of Faith's official art, Hina has aquamarine hair and eyes. Her hair is decorated with red bows and white frills. Part of her hair is tied under her chin with a bow as a sort front ponytail. She wears a red dress which is darker around her middle and lighter on the bottom. The dress also has white frills on the bottom and an enormous white kerchief on top. The bottom of her dress is decorated with a similar aquamarine swirl resembling the "厄" (misfortune) kanji at the bottom. As footwear she has knee-length black cross-laced boots similar to Alice Margatroid's. Hina has a tendency to spin, although it’s unknown if she likes to, if it’s a ritual to gather misfortune, or that she merely must.