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(はた)   ()  こころ
Hata no Kokoro
Kokoro Hata

More Alternative Spellings
Hata no Kokoro
Hata no Kokoro in Hopeless Masquerade
The Expressive Poker Face
More Character Titles
Species

Menreiki

Abilities

Manipulating emotions

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games

Hata no Kokoro (秦 こころ) is a menreiki youkai. She appears in Hopeless Masquerade as the final stage boss.

General Information

Personality

Kokoro, a rather lifeless and emotionally devoid person, had to rely on her masks to properly communicate her emotions. All of her masks are in harmony with one another; when she lost the Mask of Hope, it caused a severe imbalance and she would go berserk. Through the story of Hopeless Masquerade, she strengthened her own emotional capacity and became more lively toward her surroundings.

Ability

Manipulating emotions

Kokoro has to ability to control emotions. Not only her own, but those of her surroundings as well. Thus when she lost her own mask of hope, and thus her emotions of hope, she tried to regain these emotions by absorbing it out of the heroine, who collected the hope of all Gensokyo, to create a new mask and normalize the emotions of the humans residing at the Human Village.

Possessions

She has a total of 66 masks, all depiction a emotion. Some of these masks were created by Prince Shotoku. Her new mask of hope, is in fact the face of Toyosatomimi no Miko.

Character Design

Origin

Hata no Kokoro is a youkai of menreiki, and she holds a total of 66 masks. She became a youkai after a long time, from these masks which were used by the the father of Sarugaku performance, Hata no Kawakatsu.

According to the lenged on Zeami's "Fuushika-den, we can understand Kawakatsu is related to Mononobe no Futo, Toyosatomimi no Miko, the group of the Myouren Temple, and perhaps the group of the Moriya Shrine; Kawakatsu in jar was picked up near Oomiwa Shrine. When Prince Shoutoku was in war against Soga no Moriya, Prince Shoutoku ordered that Kawakatsu perform 66 types of play for ancient ritual with 66 masks given by Prince Shoutoku. After the plays, the war ended and there came peace. After some period, Kawakatsu taught the secret of play and he rode a boat on the sea to uphold the tradition that non-humankind like deity or Buddha must not leave his own marks or trails. The residents living where the boat went to land were cursed, then they enshrined him as Great Rage Daimyoujin (大荒大明神 Taikou Daimyoujin) to prosper. The god is another shape of Vaiśravaṇa, Bishamonten.

In another legend, some people says about this incident that Moriya didn't die then but escaped into Suwa Province and he became the founder of Moriya Jinja and Moriya clan (see more info on Suwako's article). When we see Kokoro as the center of all the characters of Hopeless Masquerade, we can understand why none of the group of the Moriya Shrine doesn't appear despite their activity for religion.

Name

Her full name is Hata no Kokoro, with Hata as her surname and Kokoro as her given name. Hata is taken from Hata no Kawakatsu, who Zeami claims in Fuushika-den that is the reincarnation of First Emperor of Qin Dynasty (Qin is ) and the founder of Hata clan, an immigrant clan in Japan. Her given name means 'Heart' in Japanese. The Japanese title of Hopeless Masquerade, where she is the final boss, has the kanji 心 (kokoro), derived from her name, or vice-versa.

Design

Kokoro has long, pink hair and pink, empty eyes. She wears a blue blouse with plaid pattern. Her skirt is in a pumpkin shape, depicting several faces on it. She carries a total of 66 masks with her, which all holds a different emotion and face. However, she mainly uses the masks holding the emotions joy, anger, pathos and humour.

Story

Hopeless Masquerade

The story starts with Kokoro losing her mask of hope. Losing her hope causes her power to control emotions to go berserk, causing the humans in the Human Village to lose hope as well and become enthralled in a religious popularity contest that comes to be known as the "dueling fad". Reimu Hakurei and the others participate in this contest and are eventually guided by Mamizou Futatsuiwa to the Human Village at night, where Kokoro searches in vain for her lost mask. Most of the characters who try to stop her come up with their own solutions to her hopelessness, including Byakuren Hijiri teaching her Buddhism to control her own emotions and Toyosatomimi no Miko making her a replacement mask of hope, but none of them completely work until Mamizou notices the contradictory actions Kokoro is taking and offers her own advice, which is to stop relying on the masks and discover her own, true emotions through meeting (and fighting) a variety of people. In the process of doing so she discovers her own anger at the religious leaders who are taking advantage of the situation, and Reimu, Byakuren, and Miko team up to stop her. Byakuren and Miko both claim that their solutions solved the problem, and Kokoro is invited to the Hakurei Shrine to perform Noh plays as an offering to the gods.

Official Profiles

Hopeless Masquerade description in player selection
Hata no Kokoro HM  彼女はコロコロと感情を変える。

 その性格とは裏腹に本体は無表情だった。それが自我を保てない理由だという。
 そう指摘された彼女は、人間や、妖怪の表情を学ぶべく旅に出た。

 そう、学ぶ手段といったらアレしかない!

Hopeless Masquerade - キャラ設定とエキストラストーリー.txt
Hata no Kokoro HM ○表情豊かなポーカーフェイス

  秦 こころ(はたのこころ)

  種族:面霊気
  能力:感情を操る程度の能力

   猿楽の祖 秦河勝(はたのかわかつ)が使っていたお面が時を経て
   妖怪化した者。
   お面ごとに感情が決まっていて、そのお面を被ると感情が変化する。
   感情は、近くに居る者にも影響を及ぼす。

   お面の数は六十六。

   それぞれに全て感情が割り当てられているが、流石に多いので普段は
   喜怒哀楽の面くらいしか使用しない。


   今回はゲーム中のストーリーで細かく語られているので全ては語らないが、
   事件の発端は「希望の面」が失われたことから始まる。
   何故失われたかは不明(恐らくただの過失)だが、その影響が刹那的な
   お祭り騒ぎを生んだ。

   本来の彼女はそれぞれの感情がバランスを取り合い安定しているが、
   面が一つでも失われると感情本来の力が干渉し合い、暴走してしまう。

   実は、安定していると殆ど感情を表に出さない。何事にも興味を示さず、
   お面が必要とされる時以外はただひっそりと付喪神をしている。
   その為、暴走しているときの方が人間くさいという者もいる。

The Expressive Poker Face

Hata no Kokoro

Species: Menreiki
Ability: Ability to manipulate emotion

A youkai created, after a long time had passed, from the masks used
by the father of Sarugaku performance, Hata no Kawakatsu.
Each mask displays an emotion, and putting a given mask on will change one's emotions.
Those emotions have an influence on those around the wearer, as well.

She has sixty-six masks in all.

Each and every mask has an emotion assigned to it, but since there are quite a few of them,
she usually only uses the masks for the four emotions of joy, anger, pathos, and humor.


Because her story is discussed in detail in-game this time, not all of it will be discussed here,
but the incident began with her "Mask of Hope" being lost.
The reason why it was lost is unknown (probably just an accident), but its influence
is what produced the sudden rioting.

Originally, she stabilized herself by having each emotion hold their balance with each other,
but losing just one mask caused her emotions' original powers to interfere with each other, and she went berserk.

In fact, when she's stabilized, she hardly lets any emotions show. She shows interest in nothing,
and aside from when her masks are required, she just quietly acts as a tsukumogami.
Because of that, there are some people who say that when she goes berserk, she seems more human-like.