List of Touhou Project Characters - Additional Characters - Mountain of Faith

Mountain of Faith

Shizuha Aki (秋 静葉, Aki Shizuha?)

• Species: God of red leaves
• Ability: Manipulation of red leaves
• Location: Foot of the Yōkai Mountain
• Also known as: Symbol of Loneliness and Death

Stage 1 midboss. She and her younger sister Minoriko control the season of autumn together. Of the opinion that red leaves are the best part of autumn, she feels tremendously proud when showing the beauty of her leaves to Minoriko. Disappears when winter comes.

Minoriko Aki (秋 穣子, Aki Minoriko?)

• Species: God of abundance
• Ability: Manipulation of abundance
• Location: Foot of the Yōkai Mountain
• Also known as: Symbol of Wealth and Abundance
• Theme: Because Princess Inada Will Scold Me

Stage 1 boss and the younger sister of Shizuha. As a harvest goddess, she is invited as a special guest to the harvest festival in the Human Village every year. If she isn't invited then a good harvest cannot be guaranteed for that year. The fragrance of the harvest is her perfume, and with it, she feels superior to her elder sister . Like her sister, she disappears when winter comes.

Hina Kagiyama (鍵山 雛, Kagiyama Hina?)

• Species: Curse god
• Ability: Storing curses
• Location: Yōkai Sea of Trees
• Also known as: Nagashi-hina of the Hidden God
• Theme: Dark Side of Fate

Stage 2 boss. Hina is the head of the Nagashihina army, where Nagashihina refers to the dolls being drifted down the river in a ritual to cast away one's sins and misfortunes. As such, Hina is surrounded by curses and those who encounter her will run into misfortune. Despite this, Hina has good intentions and does not wish to have misfortune befall humans again. She is often spinning and her attacks are characterized as spirals.

Nitori Kawashiro (河城 にとり, Kawashiro Nitori?)

• Species: Kappa
• Ability: Manipulation of Water
• Location: Untrodden Valley
• Also known as: Super Youkai Warhead
• Theme: Akutagawa Ryuunosuke's "Kappa" ~ Candid Friend

Stage 3 boss. An engineer with an interest in humans, she believes that the kappa and the humans were ancient allies. The kappa of the Touhou universe are described as a race with advanced technology, demonstrated when the shy Nitori uses optical camouflage to conceal herself from the humans. As an engineer, she likes to take things apart and reassemble them again, so her clothes are packed with tools for this purpose.

Momizi Inubashiri (犬走 椛, Inubashiri Momiji?, alternate spelling Momiji Inubashiri)

• Species: White wolf tengu
• Ability: Seeing great distances
• Location: Waterfall of Nine Heavens
• Also known as: Lowly Patrolling Tengu, Mountain's Telegnosis (Double Spoiler)

Stage 4 midboss. A loyal tengu who patrols the Yōkai Mountain and can see great distances. She attempts to scare intruders off with simple attacks before reporting them to her superiors. When not on duty, she plays dai shogi with the kappa who live nearby. During the events of Mountain of Faith, she failed to scare Reimu and Marisa away, so she was assigned under Aya Syameimaru to continue surveillance on the intruders. Her report led to the peaceful resolution of the tension between the tengu and the Moriya Shrine.

Sanae Kotiya (東風谷 早苗, Kochiya Sanae?, alternate spelling Sanae Kochiya)

• Species: Human
• Ability: Power to work miracles
• Location: Moriya Shrine
• Also known as: Deified Human of the Wind
• Theme: Faith is for the Transient People

Stage 5 boss and priestess (miko) of the Moriya Shrine. Though she is human, she is Suwako's descendant and has the power to create miracles due to her divine blood. In the past, people began to worship her as a living god due to these miracles, despite the fact that she was the priestess of another god and most of the miracles were her god's. As the outside world changed, though, faith in both Sanae and her god Kanako declined and they chose to move their shrine to Gensokyo. Wanting to gather the faith of Gensokyo's residents, she threatened to close down the Hakurei Shrine, which resulted in a resounding defeat for her and her gods. It was then she understood that she is no longer a living god in this land of miracles, but only a normal human being.

Kanako Yasaka (八坂 神奈子, Yasaka Kanako?)

• Species: God
• Ability: Power to create qian
• Location: Wind God's Lake
• Also known as: Avatar of Mountains and Lakes
• Theme: The Venerable Ancient Battlefield ~ Suwa Foughten Field

Stage 6 boss. Officially, a goddess of mountain who inhabits the Moriya Shrine. But in reality goddess of wind and rain. she is based on the Japanese god Yasakatome no Mikoto. As faith in gods in the outside world declined, she decided to move the Moriya Shrine to Gensokyo's Yōkai Mountain, rather than simply be forgotten and fade away. She quickly acquired faith from the yōkai on the mountain — though some would just call it friendship. To acquire the faith of the humans and yōkai living elsewhere in Gensokyo as well, she sent her priestess Sanae to the Hakurei Shrine. She wears a snake-patterned shimenawa as her trademark, symbolizing her victory over Suwako long ago, in addition to removable pillars on her back. In the events before Touhou 11, she was the one that sent the Yatagarasu to Utsuho Reiuzi so Kanako and Suwako could start their Mountain Industrial Revolution project using nuclear fusion power with the kappa. The project was a complete success.

Suwako Moriya (洩矢 諏訪子, Moriya Suwako?)

• Species: God
• Ability: Power to create kun
• Location: Moriya Shrine
• Also known as: Highest of Native Gods
• Theme: Native Faith

Extra Stage boss, a girl with a frog motif. She is the true goddess of the Moriya Shrine, and was once the leader of Mishaguji, but was later defeated by Kanako. However, the people of her kingdom still feared Mishaguji and were unable to accept Kanako as their new goddess. The two created a false god, "Moriya", from which they could both gather faith. And thus Kanako borrowed Suwako's powers, and silently ruled as the goddess of mountain. Already long forgotten in the outside world, Suwako was untroubled as her faith slowly declined, but accompanied Kanako to Gensokyo nonetheless - despite their history, and their frequent disagreements, the two are good friends. She and Cirno are seen to be enemies, as Cirno freezes frogs, much to Suwako's annoyance.

Also present:

• Reimu Hakurei (playable character)
• Marisa Kirisame (playable character)
• Aya Syameimaru (Stage 4 boss)