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本居 (もとおり)  小鈴 (こすず)
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Kosuzu Motoori
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Kosuzu Motoori on the cover of CompAce June 2013 edit., or of the magazine publishing #6
Bibliophile with a Deciphering Eye
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Species

Human

Abilities

The ability to decipher books by only touching them

Location

Suzunaan in Human Village

Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Kosuzu Motoori (本居 小鈴 Motoori Kosuzu) is a Human Village resident and a worker at the Suzunaan book renter. According to her, she's the No.1 collector of the demon books in Gensokyo. She is the main character of Forbidden Scrollery.

General Information

Personality

Kosuzu has a sweet personality, but is very confident in herself and her abilities. However, this has gotten her in trouble on one occasion already. She appears to be in an upbeat mood most of the time.

Ability

Ability to decipher books by only touching them

At the beginning of Forbidden Scrollery, Kosuzu had recently gained the ability to decipher any sort of text, no matter what language it is written in, just by touching it.

Occupation

Kosuzu is a part-timer that works at Suzunaan, a library specializing in books that appeared in Gensokyo from the outside world.

Possessions

Kosuzu claims to have the largest collection of demon books in all of Gensokyo stored in the library she works at. It's essentially her pet project and hobby.

Backstory

Not much is known about Kosuzu's past, but she appears to have known Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame for at least some time. At some point she started working part-time in the library Suzunaan.

Character Design

Name

Her surname Motoori (本居) literally means "residing books" while her given name Kosuzu (小鈴) means "little bell".

She is very likely a reference to Norinaga Motoori, a prominent 18th century Japanese scholar in Kokugaku (ancient Japanese literature study) - his greatest achievement was deciphering the Kojiki. Norigana was also known to be a bell collector, and even named his house the Suzunoya (鈴屋, lit. "bell house/store").

Design

Kosuzu is a young girl with red eyes, light red hair and twintails adorned with bells. She wears a checkered kimono and apron with Kosuzu and 鈴奈庵 (Suzunaan) written on the front. She uses glasses to read. When she goes outdoors she'll wear a coat.

Story

Literature

Forbidden Scrollery

Kosuzu is the main character of Forbidden Scrollery. She recently gained the power to decipher all writing, though it hasn't yet been explained how. She was responsible for letting loose a smoke youkai called Enenra in an attempt to smoke out a word-eating worm youkai. Her reading of the Night Parade Picture Scroll caused objects around the village to transform into tsukumogami at night, though once this was traced to her she began restricting her reading to once per month to avoid suspicion. After attending Hata no Kokoro's performance at the Hakurei Shrine, an old scroll lead Kosuzu to deduce (correctly) that Kokoro is a youkai and (incorrectly) that Reimu was helping her steal emotions, though Mamizou managed to convince her that Reimu was being tricked and that the menreiki's next play would be under proper supervision.

Relationships

Hieda no Akyuu

Akyuu is Kosuzu's closest friend, and the two often meet to discuss books and strange happenings. Kosuzu is noticably more casual and outspoken around Akyuu than while speaking to her elders like Reimu and Marisa.

Reimu Hakurei

Kosuzu seems to know and respect Reimu very well, speaking to her in a friendly and polite manner. However, she has heard the rumours of the Hakurei Shrine being infested by youkai and it sometimes colours how she interprets Reimu's behaviour. Reimu addresses Kosuzu as "Kosuzu-chan".

Marisa Kirisame

Kosuzu is friendly with Marisa, but does not appear to know her as well as Reimu.

Mamizou Futatsuiwa

A regular patron of the store in her human guise, Mamizou speaks to Kosuzu in a friendly manner and offers her advice on supernatural matters. Unaware of Mamizou's true nature, Kosuzu looks up to her as a role model, seemingly trusting her more than any other adult.

Gallery

Additional Information

  • The logo of Suzuna'an, Kosuzu's shop is turnip (you can find it in 庵 on the graphic design of title logo of Forbidden Scrollery). It should be derived from the fact that a traditional name of turnip is suzuna (菘 / 鈴菜), which is also used these days when they celebrate new-year festival as one of the special seven vegetables of spring, but is normally called "kabu" (カブ / 蕪).
    • This vegetable also appears in the 恩頼図 ("onrai-zu" or "mitama-no fuyu-no e". It means "the graph of influence".), drawn by the adopted child of Norinaga. This turnip-like picture explains graphically the lineage of Norinaga's Japanese Study; Norinaga stands in the center, the upper part lists the names of people who affected Norinaga, and the lower does those who are affected by him.
  • Unlike the other human characters, there is no real sign as to her age is.
  • On several occasions, she'd talk or yell to her parents in the shop, but they were always off-panel. One example is the beginning of chapter 13 where she asks her mom if her mom knew where her shoes were.
  • She made her first game appearance in Hopeless Masquerade as a background character.
  • In chapter 10 and 11, Kosuzu uses a kimono with a hat that resembles the famous fictional Japanese detective Kosuke Kindaichi created by Seishi Yokomizo.

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