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摩多羅 (またら) 隠岐奈 (おきな)
Okina Matara
Matara Okina
Okina Matara as the Extra Stage Boss of Hidden Star in Four Seasons
The Ultimate, Absolute Secret God
More Character Titles
Species

Secret God

Abilities

Creating doors on the back of anything

Location

Land of Rear Doors

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Okina Matara (摩多羅 隠岐奈 Matara Okina) is the main antagonist of Hidden Star in Four Seasons. She is a secret God and one of the Sages of Gensokyo.

General Information

Okina appeared as the Final Boss and Extra Stage Boss in Hidden Star in Four Seasons.

A God of multiple faces and roles, she has remained out of sight for some time. In the past, she was one of the Sages of Gensokyo behind its creation. She has maintained its balance and protected it from the Outside World since then.

Personality

She is said to be a classic God, having no mercy for those who disrespect her, and blessings for those who revere her. Though "hidden", she is ostentatious, confident and prideful, wanting to stand out and make herself known to others. Okina seems to pity her servants after some duration of their service, wanting to free them of their servitude under her wishing them to have a normal life again.

Abilities

Creating doors on the backs of anything

As literally stated, Okina causes a door to appear on the back of anything, even living beings. This allows her to travel wherever she wishes, or to send something somewhere else. For example, the door of the seasons that gives the player character their ability to use a season's magic allowed Okina to steal the accumulated magic through their use of the season and expel the player character away to where they gained their ability.

The doors connect to the extradimensional Land of the Backdoor (後戸の国 Ushirodo-no-Kuni), through which a number of other doors of Okina's creation are accessible. Characters themselves also utilize doors on someone else to find Okina.

Controlling vitality and mental energy

Entrusted to Satono Nishida (mental energy) and Mai Teireida (vitality), the two bring out the latent ability and potential of all things through a hectic background dance behind that thing. Somehow, Okina also uses this ability to maintain Gensokyo's balance.

Somehow, Okina can also use this ability through these doors to create youkai. Aunn Komano, originally a divine spirit of a komainu statue, became a sentient youkai due to the magic flowing from the door that Okina placed on her back.

Miscellaneous

Okina appears to be really confident in her power and abilities, claiming to be able to create youkai with a snap of her fingers, and even recreate Gensokyo as a whole with ease if she wanted.

Background Information

Name

Her full name is Okina Matara (摩多羅 隠岐奈). The first kanji in Okina, 隠 (o), means "hidden". 岐 (ki) could mean either "crossroads" or "theatre". 奈 (na) can refer to Naraka (奈落 Naraku), the Hindu and Buddhist version of hell (also known as 地獄 Jigoku in Japan) or to "the basement of a theatre". Altogether, Okina (隠岐奈) translates to something like "hidden hell theatre" or "hidden crossroads [in] hell/a theatre's basement". Aditionally, Okina (隠岐奈) is homophonous to Okina (翁 lit. old man), the name of a type of ritualized form of Noh, derived from Shinto. It is also the name of a Noh mask sometimes worshipped as a symbol of Matara-jin. Matara is from the first part of Matara-jin, on whom Okina is based.

Origin

She is based on Matara-jin (摩多羅神), an obscure, multifaceted God primarily of the esoteric Tendai Buddhism sect, introduced by Ennin. Commonly seen with two servants, Teireita and Nishita, Matara-jin came to be called many names, conflated with other deities, or associated with or became the patron of multiple things.

Design

She has long, blonde hair and yellow eyes, which eye color changes into orange in the Extra Stage. She wears a yellow tabard adorned with a constellation pattern of stars representing the Big Dipper. She wears a green skirt and black boots, and on her head is a three-point hat.

Her stage 6 portraits depicts her sitting on a "throne" and bearing a mirror-like drum. The throne has a backdoor installed in it, out of which flames in four colors emerge, each representing one of the four seasons.

Her extra stage portrait no longer has the throne and mirror, but the flames are still present. Instead, she has a wireframe-like door in front of her that she is looking through.

Story

Games

Hidden Star in Four Seasons
Okina's final stage boss sprite in HSiFS
Okina's extra stage boss sprite in HSiFS

Okina emerges from obscurity, wanting to find new replacements for her servants, Satono and Mai. She orders her servants to plant doors on the backs of others and empower them, with the purpose of bringing out their best to see if they are worthy of being Okina's servant. Empowered fairies cause the seasons to go haywire, which causes the player characters to act. Deeming the player characters unworthy, she defeats them by taking the power they've gathered and expelling them to the beginning using the "door of seasons" planted on their backs. After gathering the lifeless boundary between seasons instead, preventing Okina from ejecting them again, the player returns and manages to defeat her. However, Okina's true goal is simply to stand out and make a show of her power, to engrave herself in the hearts and minds of everyone in Gensokyo once again.

Violet Detector

Okina confronts Sumireko Usami in the Dream World. She is fascinated by her struggle and decides to help her through her ordeal by lending some power. When the Sumireko she helped finally meet with her other self, the real Sumireko, Okina takes back the power she lent her to make the fight fair.

Literature

Wild and Horned Hermit, chapter 42

Okina shows up at the last Hakurei Shrine flower viewing party of the season, that followed the Four Seasons Incident. She mainly came to make sure people were talking about her, as making her presence known to the current Gensokyo was her goal.

Relationships

Satono Nishida and Mai Teireida

Loyal servants of Okina. Vessels of her power, they act as extensions of her and unflinchingly obey her orders. They seemingly lack the free will to question otherwise. They are becoming less human due to Okina's influence and have little memory of their past, yet maintain their personalities. Whether because they're no longer useful or she pities them, Okina seeks to replace them, which she has periodically. However, after failing to find any, she says she is fine with retaining them. Satono and Mai do not know they are even searching for their own successors.

Sages of Gensokyo

Yukari Yakumo

It's implied in Reimu's extra stage in Hidden Star in Four Seasons that the two are familiar with each other, and that Yukari helped Reimu defeating Okina by suggesting her to use the "boundary between seasons" to fight her. Okina recognized Yukari's modus operandi, while Reimu said she didn't understand the logic behind the countermeasure method she was using.

Kasen Ibaraki

In chapter 42 of Wild and Horned Hermit, Kasen reveals to Aya Shameimaru that Okina is one of her old acquaintances, and commented how it was a misfortune that she had known her.

Gallery

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 36
後符「秘神の後光」 Back Sign "Halo of the Secret God" HSiFS St. 6: E/N/H
後符「絶対秘神の後光」 Back Sign "Halo of the Absolute Secret God" HSiFS
VD
St. 6: L
Wrong Saturday - 3
裏夏「スコーチ・バイ・ホットサマー」 Hidden Summer "Scorch By Hot Summer" HSiFS St. 6: E/N
裏夏「異常猛暑の焦土」 Hidden Summer "Scorched Earth of Abnormal Intense Heat" HSiFS St. 6: H/L
裏秋「ダイ・オブ・ファミン」 Hidden Fall "Die of Famine" HSiFS St. 6: E/N
裏秋「異常枯死の餓鬼」 Hidden Fall "Preta of Abnormal Blight" HSiFS St. 6: H/L
裏冬「ブラックスノーマン」 Hidden Winter "Black Snowman" HSiFS St. 6: E/N
裏冬「異常降雪の雪だるま」 Hidden Winter "Snowman of Abnormal Snowfall" HSiFS St. 6: H/L
裏春「エイプリルウィザード」 Hidden Spring "April Wizard" HSiFS St. 6: E/N
裏春「異常落花の魔術使い」 Hidden Spring "Black Magician of Abnormal Falling Petals" HSiFS St. 6: H/L
「裏・ブリージーチェリーブロッサム」 "Hidden Breezy Cherry Blossom" HSiFS St. 6: E/N/H/L
「裏・パーフェクトサマーアイス」 "Hidden Perfect Summer Ice" HSiFS St. 6: E/N/H/L
「裏・クレイジーフォールウィンド」 "Hidden Crazy Fall Wind" HSiFS St. 6: E/N/H/L
「裏・エクストリームウィンター」 "Hidden Extreme Winter" HSiFS St. 6: E/N/H/L
秘儀「リバースインヴォーカー」 Secret Ceremony "Reverse Invoker" HSiFS St. Ex
秘儀「裏切りの後方射撃」 Secret Ceremony "Rear Shots of Betrayal" HSiFS St. Ex
秘儀「弾幕の玉繭」 Secret Ceremony "Danmaku Dupion" HSiFS
GoU
St. Ex
秘儀「穢那の火」 Secret Ceremony "Fire of Ena" HSiFS St. Ex
秘儀「後戸の狂言」 Secret Ceremony "Kyogen of the Back Door" HSiFS St. Ex
秘儀「マターラドゥッカ」 Secret Ceremony "Matarah Dukkha" HSiFS St. Ex
秘儀「七星の剣」 Secret Ceremony "Sword of the Seven Stars" HSiFS
GoU
St. Ex
秘儀「無縁の芸能者」 Secret Ceremony "Performers Unattached to Society" HSiFS St. Ex
「背面の暗黒猿楽」 "The Back Face's Dark Sarugaku" HSiFS St. Ex
「アナーキーバレットヘル」 "Anarchy Bullet Hell" HSiFS St. Ex
秘儀「マターラスッカ」 Secret Ceremony "Matarah Sukkha" VD
GoU
Wrong Saturday - 1
秘儀「背面の邪炎」 Secret Ceremony "The Rear Face's Wicked Flames" VD Wrong Saturday - 2
秘儀「秘神の暗曜弾幕」 Secret Ceremony "Secret God's Behind-the-Scenes Danmaku" VD Wrong Saturday - 4
秘儀「神秘の玉繭」 Secret Ceremony "Arcane Dupion" VD Wrong Saturday - 5
「秘神結界」 "Secret God Barrier" Co-owner with Yukari VD Nightmare Saturday - 1
「背後からの盗撮者調伏」 "Sneak-Photographer's Exorcism from the Back" Co-owner with Reimu VD Nightmare Saturday - 3
「卑怯者マスタースパーク」 "Coward's Master Spark" Co-owner with Marisa VD Nightmare Saturday - 5
扉符「温泉客の安らぐ背中」 Door Sign "Relaxed Backs of Hot-Spring Bathers" SFW Story
扉符「太古に失われた背中」 Door Sign "Backs Lost in Ancient Times" SFW Story
扉符「咎人達の血生臭い背中」 Door Sign "Backs of Sinners, Reeking of Blood" SFW Story
「秘匿された時空幻想ツアー」 "Concealed Spacetime Fantasy Tour" SFW Story
「秘められし弾幕界への扉」 "Door to the Hidden World of Danmaku" SFW Story

Additional Information

Fandom

Official Profiles

Hidden Star in Four Seasons - omake.txt (Stage 6)
name  ○6面ボス  究極の絶対秘神

  摩多羅 隠岐奈
  Matara Okina

  種族:秘神
  能力:あらゆるものの背中に扉を作る程度の能力

  万物の背中に潜む秘神。
  表の顔は、地母神、能楽の神、星の神、養蚕の神、障碍の神、被差別民の神、等多岐にわたる。

  本当の正体は誰も知らない。
  その正体を見てはいけない、聞いてはいけない、語ってはいけない、究極の秘神である。

  しかし、秘神とはいえ隠れている訳では無い。
  時として大々的に表に出てきて、存在を誇示するのである。

  今回の目的は、里乃と舞の後継者を探すためと言っているが、後継者など、見つから
  なければそのまま二人にやらせれば良いのだ。

  本当の目的は目立つことである。
  目立って、幻想郷の人間、妖怪、そして賢者達の記憶に刻み込むのである。
  後継者は見つからなかったようだが、そちらの目的は達成されたように見える。

  そして彼女は今の幻想郷を作った賢者の一人でもある。
  幻想郷を外の世界から守り、その何処にでも移動出来て、気付かないうちに生命力も
  精神力もコントロールしてしまう不思議な能力で、幻想郷のバランスを取る役目を
  負っている。
  普段の雑用は手足となる二童子(里乃と舞)に任せている。

  ぞんざいに扱うものには容赦無く、うやうやしく扱ってくれるものには恩恵を授ける。
  敵にすると恐ろしく、味方にすると頼もしい典型的な神様である。

Stage 6 Boss: The Ultimate, Absolute Secret God

Okina Matara

Species: Secret God
Ability: Capable of creating doors on the back of anything

A hidden god who lurks behind all things in creation.
She has a wide range of public faces-- an Earth mother goddess, a god of noh, a god of stars, a god of silkworm breeding, a god of hindrances, a god of discriminated peoples, et cetera.

Nobody knows what her true nature really is.
She's the ultimate secret god, whose true form must never be seen, heard, or spoken of.

Her status as a "secret god" doesn't mean she's hiding or anything, though.
At times, she makes ostentatious public appearances to show off her grand presence.

She claims that her objective was to find successors for Satono and Mai, but if she ended up unable to find any suitable successors, she'd be fine making the two servants continue to work for her.

Her true goal was to stand out.
To make a big show of herself, and engrave herself into the memories of every human, youkai, and sage in Gensokyo.
It seems she didn't find any successor servants in the end, but it appears that her latter goal was well and truly achieved.

She is also one of the sages who created the Gensokyo of today.
She protects Gensokyo from the outside world, can move anywhere she likes, and at some point without realizing it at first, she gained a mysterious power to control both vitality and mental energy, which she uses for her duty of keeping Gensokyo's balance intact.
Her menial tasks are usually entrusted to her two douji servants that wait upon her (ie. Satono and Mai).

She shows no mercy to those who act rudely to her, and grants blessings to those who treat her with reverence.
Fearsome as an enemy and reliable as an ally, she's the classic example of a god.

Hidden Star in Four Seasons - omake.txt (Extra Stage)
name  ○エキストラボス  究極の絶対秘神

  摩多羅 隠岐奈
  Matara Okina

  背中の季節は彼女の用意した罠であった。
  主人公は隠岐奈の用意した季節の罠を逆に利用して再戦に挑む。

  その事態に、季節の魔力で追い返すことは諦め、究極の秘神は真の正体を現した。
  それはまさに表の顔のままの、混沌とした神の姿の集合体であった。

  そういえば、秘神ではあるが彼女は隠れているわけでは無いのだ。
  最初から、全てを見せている秘神なのだ。

Extra Boss: The Ultimate, Absolute Secret God

Okina Matara

The seasons on our heroines' backs were a trap that Okina had arranged.
Our protagonist used Okina's season trap to her own advantage, and challenged her for a rematch.

At this, the ultimate secret god agreed to refrain from chasing the protagonist off with the seasons' magic power, and revealed her true form.
It was a chaotic fusion of many gods' forms, every bit the same as the face she shows publicly.

Speaking of which, she may be a "secret god," but she's not hiding.
From the very beginning, she was a secret god who put everything she has out in plain sight.

Official Sources

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