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==Relationships==
==Relationships==
;[[Kaguya Houraisan]] (Owner, Master)
===[[Kaguya Houraisan]]===
;[[Eirin Yagokoro]] (Employer, Teacher)
Kaguya and Eirin took in Reisen when she fled from the Moon.
;[[Tewi Inaba]] (Earthborn Rabbit)
 
;[[Watatsuki no Toyohime]] (Former Master)
===[[Eirin Yagokoro]]===
;[[Watatsuki no Yorihime]] (Former Master)
Reisen's current master.  Eirin has employed Reisen's telepathic abilities to gain intelligence on the Lunar capital.  She also sends Reisen to the Human Village to sell her medicine.
 
===[[Tewi Inaba]]===
Reisen helps Tewi manage the rabbits at Eientei, though Tewi's carefree nature seems to bother her.
 
===[[Watatsuki no Toyohime]] & [[Watatsuki no Yorihime]]===
The Watatsuki sisters were Reisen's former masters before Reisen fled to Earth.  Despite her desertion, both sisters fondly miss her.


==Spell Cards==
==Spell Cards==

Revision as of 17:55, 25 January 2015

鈴仙 (れいせん) 優曇華院 (うどんげいん) ・イナバ
ɽeːseɴ ɯdoŋgeːɴ inaba (♫)
Reisen Udongein Inaba
Reisen Udongein Inaba
Reisen Udongein Inaba in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
Lunatic Moon Rabbit
More Character Titles
Species

Moon rabbit (not native to Gensokyo)

Abilities

Manipulation of insanity

Age

Unknown, at least approximately 40 years old

Occupation

Kaguya's pet, Eirin's student, medicine seller.

Location

Eientei, was originally from the Moon

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

Reisen Udongein Inaba (鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ) is one of the legendary moon rabbits who fled from the Moon to Earth as a refugee from the "Lunar War" between the two worlds that began in 1969 A.D. after the Apollo 11 "invasion". Making her way to Gensokyo, she was surprised to meet the notorious fugitives Kaguya Houraisan and Eirin Yagokoro, and asked for asylum in Eientei. In exchange, she works for and protects Kaguya and Eirin.

General Information

Reisen first appeared as the Stage 5 boss Imperishable Night and later became playable in Phantasmagoria of Flower View and Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. She also appears in many manga comics such as Silent Sinner in Blue, Cage in Lunatic Runagate and Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth. Perhaps ironically given her insanity-inducing powers, Reisen seems to have one of the more stable and balanced personalities in Gensokyo.

Abilities

Manipulation of Insanity

Reisen has the ability to sense and manipulate waves of all kinds, localised in her "Lunatic Red Eyes". Her signature use of this ability is manipulating brain waves through eye contact, allowing her to induce madness or hallucinations depending on the strength of her opponent's will. By increasing the frequency of brainwaves she can make a person short-tempered and irrational, or by reducing them can leave her target apathetic and depressed.

Reisen can also manipulate light and sound waves to deceive the senses indirectly, from concealing the paths of her danmaku, to creating after-images of herself, to casting wide-area illusions that cause people to get lost. Finally, she is capable of releasing waves from her eyes in a destructive blast.

Reisen is immune to the abilities of the Three Fairies of Light (seeing an invisible Sunny Milk, hearing a silent Luna Child, and escaping Star Sapphire's detection) since they are based on waves, though she seems unable to replicate Star Sapphire's abilities with her own.[1]

Moon rabbit abilities

Moon rabbits can send "ESP waves" and receive them with their ears, forming a sort of psychic network where they share feelings and rumors. Reisen can still participate in this network despite the physical and spiritual distance between Gensokyo and the Moon. Reisen has been depicted transmitting ESP waves from her eyes[2], but it is unknown whether this is the usual method or an example of her general wave manipulation abilities (or indeed, if her wave manipulation is just an advanced form of this ability).

Character Basis

Reisen, as illustrated in Perfect Memento in Strict Sense.

Name

Her full name is Reisen Udongein Inaba (鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ). Originally her name was written in katakana as "Rei'sen" (レイセン), but in order to blend in on Earth she changed the spelling to "Reisen" (鈴仙) and adopted the surname "Udongein" (優曇華院) from Eirin Yagokoro.[3] Note that "gein" is pronounced the same way as the English word "gain" — her name should be written as "Udonge'in" in romaji, and possibly as "Udongeïn" in French. "Inaba" (イナバ), drawn from Tewi Inaba, is a name Kaguya uses for all the rabbits in Eientei as she has trouble distinguishing between them.

In canon Eirin is the only one who calls (and is allowed to) call Reisen by the name Udonge or Udongein, though she also calls her Reisen from time to time, particularly when she is not present. Kaguya is seen to use both Inaba and Reisen.

The characters for Reisen literally mean something like "bell hermit", and Udongein "house of plantain flowers". Titles ending in 院 ("-in") were typically granted to Japanese noblewomen in their old age to indicate their special contribution to a temple or their high place in society, and carry a sense of great nobility and culture. This title is similar to posthumous names, called ingou (院号); examples include Kenreimon-In and Taikenmon-In.

There are several theories of where the name Reisen came from.

  • reisen (醴泉), meaning "spring of sweet water" - some say that this was the source of the immortality elixir in the Chinese legend of Chang'e.
  • reisen (霊蟾), meaning "spirit toad", but which due to a confused led by the kanji is now used to refer to moon rabbits or the Moon itself.
  • reisen (冷戦), meaning "Cold War", the time at which human exploration of the Moon started. (see the notes on Reisen's spell cards).
  • reisen (零戦, also called as zero-sen), meaning "Zero-Fighter", as in the Japanese Navy designation for the famous Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane, which may be a reference to Reisen's military background (see also Imperishable Night: Music).

Incidentally, in German reisen means "travels" or "voyages" as well as "to travel". There is also a species of rabbit known as the Deutsche Riesen (German), but this origin is generally thought unlikely. More loosely, reisen is a definite singular for reise in Norwegian, which means "journey" or "trip" as in taking drugs.

Design

In Imperishable Night Reisen has red eyes, long light-purple hair and long rumpled rabbit ears - like all members of the Lunar Defense Corps[4], her ears stand up straight and are decorated with two accoutrement-like buttons. Her outfit consists of a long-sleeved black business suit over a white shirt, along with a beige skirt, white socks and red shoes. Her left suit-collar is decorated with a crescent moon-shaped insignia, and there appear to be paper or business cards poking out of her left shirt pocket.

In Phantasmagoria of Flower View Reisen's jacket is removed and she wears a purple skirt. There is a clip on her necktie in the shape of a carrot, identical to Tewi Inaba's. Her alternate outfit makes her shirt black and her tie yellow.

In Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she wears a short-sleeved white shirt, a red belt and a blue skirt. Her alternate outfit gives her a dark green dress, ears and eyes, and a light green shirt and hair.

Story

Games

Imperishable Night

During Imperishable Night Reisen hid within Eientei to avoid any lunar emissaries that might arrive on Earth and force her to return to the Moon. She was tasked with sealing the doors inside Eientei to ensure that Kaguya Houraisan could not be found by the emissaries either. She used her power of insanity to stop the heroines from invading Eientei, but was defeated. Reisen's power of insanity comes from her eyes; she uses them to refract and twist waves, disorienting and confusing her victims and deceiving them with frightening illusions.

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Phantasmagoria of Flower View

In Phantasmagoria of Flower View, she worries about Tewi Inaba running off and seems more level headed than most other characters. Although she doesn't know what's causing the flower incident, she's decided to investigate by going wherever the flowers are blooming.

Spin-offs

Shoot the Bullet

In Shoot the Bullet, Aya Shameimaru encountered Reisen on stage 4 and took photos of her danmaku.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

During the events in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, she appears in the Scarlet Devil Mansion to ask questions but is beaten by the furious Mistress. Later she inquires into the fate of the Hakurei Shrine and asks if the earthquakes are still going on. Failing to find clues, she later goes to Hakugyokurou to check its condition and to ask Yuyuko Saigyouji about the Shrine's destruction. She tells her about the "completion ceremony" of the new shrine, but when she goes there, the shrine is destroyed. She also meets Yukari Yakumo, who forbids her to investigate the shrine. Some time after the battle with Yukari, Tenshi Hinanawi suddenly appears and tells Reisen that earthquakes are just "fine".

Touhou Hisoutensoku
Reisen in HM

If connecting SWR with Touhou Hisoutensoku, then Reisen can become a selectable character to play with, although she appears in no scenarios.

Hopeless Masquerade

Reisen made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Human Village stage. She is seen sitting with Tewi Inaba, Eirin Yagokoro and Kaguya Houraisan waking up Kaguya who falls sleep from time to time.

Relationships

Kaguya Houraisan

Kaguya and Eirin took in Reisen when she fled from the Moon.

Eirin Yagokoro

Reisen's current master. Eirin has employed Reisen's telepathic abilities to gain intelligence on the Lunar capital. She also sends Reisen to the Human Village to sell her medicine.

Tewi Inaba

Reisen helps Tewi manage the rabbits at Eientei, though Tewi's carefree nature seems to bother her.

Watatsuki no Toyohime & Watatsuki no Yorihime

The Watatsuki sisters were Reisen's former masters before Reisen fled to Earth. Despite her desertion, both sisters fondly miss her.

Spell Cards

Spellcards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 33[5]
波符「赤眼催眠(マインドシェイカー)」 Wave Sign "Mind Shaker (Red-Eyed Hypnosis) " IN
GoM
St. 5: E/N
幻波「赤眼催眠(マインドブローイング)」 Illusion Wave "Mind Blowing (Red-Eyed Hypnosis) " IN St. 5: H/L
狂符「幻視調律(ビジョナリチューニング)」 Lunatic Sign "Visionary Tuning (Hallucinogenic Tuning) " IN
GoM
St. 5: E/N
狂視「狂視調律(イリュージョンシーカー)」 Lunatic Gaze "Illusion Seeker (Lunatic Stare Tuning) " IN St. 5: H/L
懶符「生神停止(アイドリングウェーブ)」 Loafing Sign "Idling Wave (Life and Spirit Stopping) " IN St. 5: E/N
懶惰「生神停止(マインドストッパー)」 Indolence "Mind Stopper (Life and Spirit Stopping) " IN St. 5: H/L
散符「真実の月(インビジブルフルムーン)」 Spread Sign "Invisible Full Moon (Moon of Truth) " IN
GoM
St. 5: E/N/H/L
月眼「月兎遠隔催眠術(テレメスメリズム)」 Lunar Eyes "Tele-Mesmerism (Lunar Rabbit's Remote Mesmerism) " IN St. 5: N/H/L
「幻朧月睨(ルナティックレッドアイズ)」 "Lunatic Red Eyes (Stare of the Hazy Phantom Moon) " IN
SWR
ULiL
AoCF
LW
Use
Use
Use
波符「月面波紋(ルナウェーブ)」 Wave Sign "Luna Wave (Lunar Surface Ripple) " PoFV Use
散符「栄華之夢(ルナメガロポリス)」 Scatter Sign "Luna Megalopolis (Dream of Prosperity) " PoFV Use
散符「朧月花栞(ロケット・イン・ミスト)」 Spread Sign "Rocket in Mist (Hazy Moon Flower Bookmark) " StB St. 4
波符「幻の月(インビジブルハーフムーン)」 Wave Sign "Invisible Half-Moon (Moon of Illusion) " StB St. 4
狂夢「風狂の夢(ドリームワールド)」 Mad Dream "Dream World (Dream of Insanity) " StB
GoM
St. 4
惑視「離円花冠(カローラヴィジョン)」 Charming Look "Corolla Vision (Disjointed Circular Corolla) " SWR Use
幻爆「近眼花火(マインドスターマイン)」 Illusion Bomb "Mind Starmine (Myopic Firework) " SWR Use
幻惑「花冠視線(クラウンヴィジョン)」 Fascination "Crown Vision (Corolla Glance) " SWR Use
弱心「喪心喪意(ディモチヴェイション)」 Weak Heart "Demotivation (Empty Heart, Empty Mind) " SWR Use
喪心「喪心創痍(ディスカーダー)」 Empty Heart "Discarder (Scars of an Empty Heart) " SWR Use
毒煙幕「瓦斯織物の玉」 Poison Smokescreen "Orb of Gas-Treated Weave" SWR Use
生薬「国士無双の薬」 Life Elixir "Peerless Patriot's Elixir" SWR Use
迫符「脅迫幻覚(オブセッショナー)」 Force Sign "Obsessioner (Menacing Hallucination) " SWR Story
幻弾「幻想視差(ブラフバラージ)」 Illusion Bullet "Bluff Barrage (Illusion Parallax) " SWR
GoM
Story
幻兎「平行交差(パラレルクロス)」 Illusion Rabbit "Parallel Cross (Concurrent Crossing) " SWR Story
長視「赤月下(インフレアドムーン)」 Farsight "Infrared Moon (In the Red Moonlight) " Soku Use
短視「超短脳波(エックスウェイブ)」 Shortsight "X-Wave (Ultrashort Brainwave) " Soku Use
赤眼「望見円月(ルナティックブラスト)」 Red Eye "Lunatic Blast (Viewing the Circle Moon) " Soku Use
「障壁波動(イビルアンジュレーション)」 "Evil Undulation (Barrier Wave) " LoLK Use
「月面跳弾(ルナティックダブル)」 "Lunatic Double (Lunar Surface Ricochet) " ULiL
AoCF
Use
Use
「地上跳弾(ルナティックエコー)」 "Lunatic Echo (Earth's Surface Ricochet) " ULiL
AoCF
Use
Use
*もうお前は狂っている!* *You've Already Gone Mad!* ULiL
AoCF
Use-LW
Use-LW
狂槌符「狂視幻像(ディスオーダーアイ)も大きくなあれ」 Mad Mallet Sign "Disorder Eyes (Lunatic Stare Illusions) Grow Bigger, Too!" Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru AoCF Story
火狂符「人体発火秘匿弾幕(バーニングヒドゥンバレット)」 Fire Madness Sign "Burning Hidden Bullet (Human Combustion Concealment Danmaku) " Co-owner with Mokou AoCF Story

Additional Information

Reisen's Palettes from Touhou Hisoutensoku Left to Right: Miku Hatsune, Rin and Len Kagamine, Luka Megurine, Meiko, Kaito, Gakupo Kamui, and Gumi.

Fandom

Official Profiles

Imperishable Night - キャラ設定.txt
Reisen Udongein Inaba IN  ○5面ボス 狂気の月の兎

  鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ(れいせん・うどんげいん・イナバ)
  Reisen Udongein Inaba

  種族:月の兎
  能力:狂気を操る程度

  月に住む兎。赤い瞳は地上の兎の何倍もの狂気が宿る。

  現在は輝夜のペットである。本当の本名はレイセン(片仮名)のみだが、地上人にカムフラージュする為に漢字を当てている。でも非常に不自然。

  優曇華院は永琳が付けた愛称。どうしてそんな愛称で呼ぶのか不明。さらに永琳は彼女の事を、親しみを込めて「ウドンゲ」と呼ぶ。勝手に愛称をつけてしかも略して呼ぶあたり、宇宙人の思考は良く判らない。

  イナバは輝夜が付けた愛称。むしろ兎全般をイナバと呼んでいる。輝夜が「イナバ」と呼ぶと、彼女とてゐと区別がつかないが、どうも区別していないようにも見える。兎なら何でも一緒なのだろうか。

  彼女は地上人が侵略し始めた月から逃げ出した月の兎だが、詳しい話は輝夜のエピソードで。

Stage 5 Boss, Lunatic Moon Rabbit

Reisen Udongein Inaba

Species: Moon Rabbit
Abilities: Manipulating insanity [sic]

A rabbit who lived on the moon. In her eyes dwell far greater power of insanity than the rabbits of the earth.

She is currently living as Kaguya's pet. Her real name is only Reisen (レイセン, in katakana), but in order to masquerade as one who comes from the earth, she adopted the ateji 鈴仙 for "Reisen." However, it was quite artificial.

Udongein is a pet name that Eirin gave her. It is unknown why she calls her that. Furthermore, she affectionately calls her "Udonge." To arbitrarily give her a pet name simply to abbreviate it - aliens' ways of thought are hard to understand.

"Inaba" was the pet name that Kaguya gave her. In fact, calls all rabbits "Inaba." Whenever Kaguya says Inaba, she does not distinguish her from Tewi, and it seems that she really doesn't distinguish between them in any case. Perhaps to her, all rabbits are the same.

Reisen is a rabbit of the moon who fled the moon when people of earth began invading it. More information about that is available in Kaguya's profile.

Reisen Udongein Inaba  ○狂気の月の兎

  鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ
  (れいせん・うどんげいん・イナバ)

  月に住む兎。
  赤い瞳は地上の兎の何倍もの狂気が宿る。
   幻想郷中に花が咲いてから、永遠亭の兎が騒ぎ出した。これでは調<べないわけにいかない、と言う事で調査に出た。
   ついでにてゐが居なくなっていたのを連れ戻そうともしていた。

Lunatic Moon Rabbit

Reisen Udongein Inaba

A rabbit from the moon.

In her red eyes dwell far greater power of insanity than the rabbits of the earth.

Flowers are blooming all over Gensokyo so the rabbits of Eientei went into an uproar. This couldn't be left uninvestigated, so she went out to investigate.

While she's at it, since Tewi disappeared, she's also going to bring her back if she can.

Phantasmagoria of Flower View - キャラ設定.txt
Reisen Udongein Inaba  ○狂気の月の兎

  鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ
  (れいせん・うどんげいん・イナバ)
  Reisen Udongein Inaba

  種族:月の兎
  能力:狂気を操る程度の能力

   月に住む兎。
   赤い瞳は地上の兎の何倍もの狂気が宿る。

   幻想郷中に花が咲いてから、永遠亭の兎が騒ぎ出した。これでは調べないわけにいかない、と言う事で調査に出た。
   ついでにてゐが居なくなっていたのを連れ戻そうともしていた。

Lunatic Moon Rabbit

Reisen Udongein Inaba

Species: Moon Rabbit
Ability: Manipulating insanity

A rabbit from the moon.

In her red eyes dwell far greater power of insanity than the rabbits of the earth.

Flowers are blooming all over Gensokyo so the rabbits of Eientei went into an uproar. This couldn't be left uninvestigated, so she went out to investigate.

While she's at it, since Tewi disappeared, she's also going to bring her back if she can.

Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - おまけ.txt
Reisen Udongein Inaba  ○狂気の赤い瞳

  鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ(れいせん・うどんげいん・いなば)

  種族:月の兎
  住家:永遠亭
  能力:狂気を操る程度の能力

   光が波で出来ているというのは一見常識のようだが、それだけでは全ての視覚は語れない。
   空間、その物が波であり、そこに住む生物、物質、勿論、光も波で出来ている。

   当然、生き物の思考も感情も波で出来ていて、その波長が異なる事で性格の差が生まれるのである。

   鈴仙はその波を弄る。

   波長が短くなれば狂気が見えてきて、波長が長くなれば暢気が見えてくる。
   そして、完全な逆位相を取れば……相手の全ての感覚から姿を消し、認識できなくなるのである。


  性格:狂気と暢気の持ち主。戦闘とそれ以外の性格が異なる。

   元々、地上の生き物では無いため、人間と合わせる事は少ない。全て自分の都合で性格を変える。

   決して優しい性格ではないが、時には霊夢並みに惚けた一面を見せる。

The Red Eyes of Madness

Reisen Udongein Inaba

Race: moon rabbit
Place of residence: Eientei
Ability: Manipulating insanity

It's common knowledge that light is made of waves, but there's more to sight than just that. Space itself is waves, and the creatures, things, and of course, light in it are also all made of waves.

Naturally, the thoughts and feelings of living things also consist of waves, and their wavelengths determine personalities.

Reisen can tamper with these waves.

Short wavelengths induce madness, and long wavelengths induce an easygoing nature. And, if you completely invert the waves' phases ... she can completely disappear from her opponent's perception.


Personality: both carefree and crazed. Is a different person in battle.

Since she is not originally a creature of Earth, she isn't much like humans at all. She can change her personality completely to match her circumstances.

She is not really very kind, and sometimes she can play dumb just as well as Reimu.

Official Sources

Official sources

References

  1. Strange and Bright Nature Deity Chapter 3
  2. Touhou Hisoutensoku spell card description: Red Eye "Viewing the Circle Moon (Lunatic Blast)"
  3. Cage in Lunatic Runagate - Chapter One page 10.
  4. Silent Sinner in Blue chapter 8
  5. Each of Reisen's spell cards has two names: a kanji expression and its "pronunciation" in katakana. For example, the first one listed can simply be called Wave Sign "Mind Shaker".