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Sanae Kochiya
Main Profile
Sanae | Name: | 東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ) Sanae Kochiya |
Alternate spellings: | Sanae Kotiya | |
Species: | Human, descendant of a goddess | |
Abilities: | Power to cause miracles to occur | |
Age: | Unknown | |
Occupation: | Wind Priestess, Shrine Maiden | |
Location: | Moriya Shrine | |
Description: |
Wears a blue and white outfit similar to a shrine maiden's with light blue polka dots and stripes covering the blue areas. Has long green hair, and dark orange eyes. Wears a snake-shaped hair accessory wrapped around her hair on one side, and a hair clip shaped like a frog's head (both probably meant to represent Kanako and Suwako). | |
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Titles: | See Character Titles |
Sanae is a human, but is also a distant descendant of a god, Suwako Moriya. Her role at the Moriya Shrine is similar to a Shrine Maiden, but with her inherited power Sanae has become more like a deity herself. When humans on the outside world began losing their faith in her and Kanako, the shrine's actual deity, Kanako decided to move the shrine to Gensokyo where at least youkai might have faith in them.
During the events of Mountain of Faith Sanae tried threatening the Hakurei Shrine in order to establish the Moriya Shrine as the dominant one, not realizing how powerful humans like Reimu and Marisa were. In response to the threats Sanae was defeated by the heroine followed shortly after by Kanako and Suwako's defeat. However, the residents of the Moriya Shrine have since come to an understanding with their new neighbors and live in peace with the other residents of Youkai Mountain.
Fun Facts
- Sanae can mean 'rice seedling' or 'early seedling', and Kotiya 'eastern wind valley'.
- Sanae is the only penultimate boss of a Windows game to not have red eyes. Sakuya and Youmu both only had red eyes for one game and were given blue eyes after their introductions. Reisen and Komachi have both maintained theirs, and Orin, as a youkai, seems likely to retain hers as well.
- Since Sanae is originally from the outside world, some fans draw her in a schoolgirl uniform.
- ZUN has implied in Mountain of Faith that Sanae is not fully aware of Suwako's presence and role within the shrine. However, in Reimu and Suika's Extra in Subterranean Animism, Sanae indirectly acknowledges Suwako's existence when asked where the two gods of Moriya Shrine were, and mentions her by name in Marisa and Patchouli's Extra, so she clearly knows of her by then if she didn't before.
- In fact, in Japan, there is an old lady whose name is 'Sanae Moriya', who works as 78th chief shrine maiden. She is descendant of Suwako Moriya according to the family tree located in the shrine.
Official Profiles
Sanae | ○5面ボス 祀られる風の人間 東風谷 早苗(こちや さなえ) 種族:人間 一子相伝の秘術を持つ人間である。 元々は、風の神様を祀る人間だったらしいのだが、秘密の多い秘術で つまり、風の神様が起こしていた奇跡を、いつの間にか人間が起こし それにより、彼女ら秘術を扱う人間は人間でありながら信仰を集め、 早苗は幼い頃から、口伝でしか伝えられていない奇跡を呼ぶ秘術をマ しかし、外の世界は大きく様変わりしていた。神徳の多い神様でさえ 早苗は別に信仰がなくても、普通の人間として生活できるから問題は 神様は信仰を失うと力も失う。神徳も出せなくなる。 神奈子は決断した。人間から信仰を集めるには限界がある。これから 早苗はその具体的な計画を聞き驚いた。我が国には昔から『幻想郷』 人間の世界との別れは恐怖であったが、それ以上に奇跡を起こす力を 彼女は幻想郷の人間を正直なめていた。唯一の博麗神社を脅せば幻想 幻想郷に住む人間は、彼女が思う以上に厄介であり、そして力を持っ ここでは、彼女は特別な存在ではない。 |
A Human of the Wind Deified Sanae Kotiya Species: Human A human privy to secrets handed down through the generations. She was originally a devotee of the wind god, but as she used her secret abilities to create miracles such as summoning the wind and rain, the people around her began to believe in this human with mysterious abilities. In short, over time, people began to mistake the miracles caused by the wind god as being caused by her. In addition, as a keeper of secrets, she began to accrue faith and be treated as a god, even though she was human. She was a living god. When she was young, Sanae had mastered the secrets to call upon miracles that had been passed down through her family. A young girl that could call upon the power of miracles would certainly collect great amounts of faith --- one would expect. However, the outside world had changed a great deal. Faith in even gods with many divine virtues had been decreasing rapidly. There were few who would worship even a living god who had attained divinity during their life as a human. Though she didn't really have much faith, Sanae was able to live as a normal human without any real problems, but this would not do for the god she worshipped, Kanako. When people lose faith in gods, the gods lose their power. They can't manifest their divine virtues. This is the same as death, for a god. Kanako came to a decision. There were limits to the amount of faith that could come from humans. From now on, she would have to also look to youkai as a source of her faith. Sanae was surprised to hear the details of her plan: a world called "Gensokyo" has existed within our nation since time immemorial. It is said that this world still exists, hidden. Gensokyo has collected a number of things that have become lost - or, become fantasy - in the outside world. One could say that even people's faith in gods is in the process of moving to Gensokyo. Sanae was afraid of leaving the world of humans, but as a person with the power to call on miracles, the anticipation she felt for going to a world of miracles outweighed her terror. She did not take the humans of Gensokyo seriously. She thought that if they threatened the only shrine in Gensokyo, the Hakurei Shrine, Gensokyo itself would submit to their every wish. She went to deliver her ominous message to Reimu, and then was in turn defeated. The humans who lived in Gensokyo were more troublesome than she'd imagined, and in time she learned of the power they held, as well. Here, she was nothing special. |