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埴安神 (はにやすしん) 袿姫 (けいき)
Keiki Haniyasushin
Keiki Haniyasushin
Keiki Haniyasushin in Wily Beast and Weakest Creature
The Sculptor God Crafted by Utter Isolation
More Character Titles
Species

God

Abilities

Ability to create idols

Location

Primate Spirit Garden

Music Themes

偶像に世界を委ねて 〜Idoratrize world (Wily Beast and Weakest Creature)

Appearances
Official Games

Keiki Haniyasushin (埴安神 袿姫 Haniyasushin Keiki) is a god summoned by human spirits and acts as the main antagonist of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature.

General Information

Keiki debuts as the final boss in Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, acting as a force of opposition to the animal spirits possessing the protagonists.

Personality

Keiki is quite polite and doesn't fight if she can avoid it, but this attitude presented seems to mostly extend to only humans. On one hand, at first, she tries to convince the protagonist that fighting her would be against their interests. On the other hand, she also boasts of thinking no one was left to defeat her in battle and is quick to engage the possessed protagonist once finding out about the animal spirit's plan to invade and relinquish her control over the Primate Spirit Garden. However, despite her intention to liberate the human spirits and act as a venerable force, she still expresses that she was planning to cooperate with the animal spirits in a conversation with Yachie, suggesting more reasonable intent, which Yachie subsequently rejects.

Abilities

Ability to create idols

She can craft idols, which are animated by faith directed into them. Wily Beast and Weakest Creature indirectly compares this ability to the creation of a goshintai.

Aside from haniwa, idols crafted by Keiki can also take the form of other objects associated with kofun burials, such as bronze bells, mirrors, swords, and magatama. According to Mayumi, anything Keiki crafts will end up with a soul inhabiting it.

Background Information

Origin

Keiki seems to be based on Haniyasu (ハニヤス), a Shinto god of soil, agriculture and pottery. According to the Kojiki, when Izanami died after giving birth to Kagu-tsuchi, multiple gods emerged from her bodily remains. Two gods of soil were born from her feces: a god named Haniyasubiko no Kami(波邇夜須毘古神), and a goddess named Haniyasuhime no Kami (波邇夜須毘売神). Both of these gods are often conflated into a singular entity known as Haniyasu. In the Nihon Shoki, only one deity is born this way instead, a goddess called Haniyamahime.

Many Haniyasu shrines are located in the Fukuoka prefecture, which is also known for a unique, elaborately decorated burial mounds (装飾古墳). Some of the painted decorations found in them resemble the patterns on the edge of Keiki's dress and sleeves.

Keiki's outfit is based on a variety of so-called "priestess haniwa," thought to represent clergywomen or mediums, and usually used as the basis of reconstructions of Kofun era women's clothing. Both the asymmetrical outerwear and the headkerchief Keiki wears are common features of this type of haniwa.

Her necklace consists out of magatama, comma-shaped beads produced between the Jomon and Kofun periods, initially worn as ordinary jewelry, but viewed exclusively as ritual objects and symbols of divinity in later times.

Name

Her full name is Keiki Haniyasushin.

Her surname is Haniyasushin (埴安神). Haniyasu (埴安) is taken from the name of the kami on which she is based, and comprises the characters for "clay" and "ease". The last character, shin (神), loosely means "god", and is present in the names of various kami throughout Shinto mythology.

Her given name is Keiki (袿姫). The kei (袿) refers to uchigi, a colorful robe that was often worn in several layers as part of a jūnihitoe, a formal dress worn by ladies-in-waiting at the Japanese Imperial Court during the Heian period and are also worn at important ceremonial functions such as weddings and enthronements. The character ki (姫) means "princess" or any lady of noble birth. Thus, Keiki (袿姫) roughly means "uchigi princess".

Design

Keiki's design seems to be based on reconstructions of Kofun period clothing. She wears a green headkerchief, similar to these commonly seen on the so-called "priestess" haniwa, and a dress and apron likely also based on haniwa outfits. The spiral decorations on her dress are similar to paintings from some of the ornamented kofun from the Fukuoka prefecture. Her necklace consists out of a number of multicolored magatama, comma-shaped beads often used as a symbol of divinity, and described as a frequent offering for the gods in early Japanese chronicles.

In Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, she holds a variety of contemporary sculpting tools in her hands.

Keiki's Appearances

Wily Beast and Weakest Creature

Prior to the events of Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, Keiki created a restructured society for the Animal Realm's human spirits to live in.

Relationships

Mayumi Joutouguu

Mayumi is one of the idols crafted by Keiki and the leader of her forces. In one of the endings, Mayumi speaks of Keiki with reverence.

Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame

Keiki acts friendly towards the protagonists in the endings, and offers to craft a goshintai for the Hakurei god and a figure of Marisa. Marisa appears to have a positive opinion about Keiki, as she isn't sure why the beast spirits hate her, and visits her domain after the events of the game.

Gallery

Covers

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 11
方形「方形造形術」 Square Shape "Square-Shaped Sculpting Art" WBaWC St. 6: E/N
方形「スクエアクリーチャー」 Square Shape "Square Creature" WBaWC St. 6: H/L
円形「真円造形術」 Circular Shape "Perfect Circle Sculpting Art" WBaWC St. 6: E/N
円形「サークルクリーチャー」 Circular Shape "Circle Creature" WBaWC St. 6: H/L
線形「線形造形術」 Linear Shape "Line-Shaped Sculpting Art" WBaWC St. 6: E/N
線形「リニアクリーチャー」 Linear Shape "Linear Creature" WBaWC St. 6: H/L
埴輪「偶像人馬造形術」 Haniwa "Horse-and-Rider Idol Sculpting Art" WBaWC St. 6: E/N
埴輪「アイドルクリーチャー」 Haniwa "Idol Creature" WBaWC St. 6: H/L
「鬼形造形術」 "Oni-Shaped Sculpting Art" WBaWC St. 6: E/N/H/L
「ジオメトリッククリーチャー」 "Geometric Creature" WBaWC St. 6: E/N/H/L
「イドラディアボルス」 "Idola Diabolus" WBaWC St. 6: E/N/H/L

Additional Information

Fandom

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Official Profiles

Keiki Haniyasushin  ○6面ボス 

  孤立無援が誂えた造形神

  埴安神 袿姫(はにやすしん けいき)
  Haniyasushin Keiki

  種族:神様
  能力:偶像を作り出す程度の能力

  霊長園の人間霊が、起死回生をかけて招喚した神様。
  精巧な偶像を作り出すことが出来る。
  彼女の作る偶像は、信仰心を集めたり、身代わりにしたり、一緒に遊んだり、部屋に飾ったり出来る優れものだ。

  彼女は霊長園を支配し、動物霊から酷い扱いを受けていた人間霊を保護していた。
  畜生界の動物霊達も、人間霊を尊重できるのなら共存しようと考えていた。

  しかしまさか動物霊風情が、偶像を破壊しに地上から人間を連れてくる、という策に出るとは思っても見なかった。

  人間霊の奪取作戦に、騙された人間が参加するとは、これまさに畜生の所業。

Stage 6 Boss

The Sculptor God Crafted by Utter Isolation

Keiki Haniyasushin

Species: God
Ability: Capable of creating idols

A god summoned by the human spirits of the Primate Spirit Garden to pull them back from the brink of disaster.
She is capable of crafting elaborate idols.
The idols she creates are excellent items that can gather faith, act as stand-ins, play with you, and decorate your home.

She took control of the Primate Spirit Garden and extended her protection to the human spirits being treated horribly by the animal spirits.
She believed that they could coexist with the animal spirits as well, if they could come to respect the human spirits.

However, she never thought that the likes of the animal spirits would come up with a plan to bring over a human from the surface to destroy her idols.

Tricking a human into participating in their strategy to wrest control from the human spirits... what a truly beastly act.