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*(Touhou 10.5, alternate outfit) Dress, hat, and shoes are red instead of blue, her blouse and apron are pink, and her hair is red-orange. | *(Touhou 10.5, alternate outfit) Dress, hat, and shoes are red instead of blue, her blouse and apron are pink, and her hair is red-orange. | ||
| relationships = *[[Suika Ibuki]] (Neighbor) | | relationships = *[[Suika Ibuki]] (Neighbor) | ||
*[[Iku Nagae]] ( | *[[Iku Nagae]] (Teacher) | ||
| appearances = '''Official Games''' | | appearances = '''Official Games''' | ||
*[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]] (Playable Character, Possible Opponent) | *[[Scarlet Weather Rhapsody]] (Playable Character, Possible Opponent) |
Revision as of 10:38, 12 July 2011
Main Profile
Name: | Tenshi Hinanawi | |
Alternate spellings: | Tenshi Hinanai | |
Species: | Celestial | |
Abilities: | Manipulation of Land and Weather | |
Age: | Unknown | |
Occupation: | Celestial | |
Location: | Heaven | |
Description: |
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Relationships: |
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Appearances: |
Official Games
Print Works
Music CDs
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Titles: | See Character Titles |
General Information
Tenshi Hinanawi is the "final" boss for most of the characters in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and the "Eldest Daughter" of the Hinanawi clan (as referred to by Iku Nagae) that resides in Heaven. Due to the boring life in Heaven of constant drinking and relaxation, Tenshi decides to cause a disaster by gathering the thought energy of everyone in Gensokyo in the form of scarlet clouds, threatening an earthquake. Her true intent is to resolve her boredom by attracting others to resolve the incident. This disruption causes a preliminary tremor, which wrecks Reimu Hakurei's shrine, causing several events to unfold from there. Eventually, Tenshi rebuilds Reimu's shrine.
Other Information
Name and Concept
- The characters in her name literally mean Hi or "compare, comparative, rather", the former na is "many, comfort, calm", the latter na "name, authority", i "be, live", and ten "sky, heaven", and shi, which is a common ending for girl's names meaning "child". So the literal meaning of her name is "The child of heaven, from the calm family which bears authority".
- But there is another possible meaning. Her name includes hina and nai. The meaning of Hina isn't clear, but the official profile says the Hinanai clan served the Nai clan in their life, so hina could mean "young chicken, small" (雛). In ancient times, na could have meant "ground", i or wi could have meant "be, exist, live in", the compound nai or nawi "foundation, basement" (the ground on which we stand), and naifuru was an ancient word for "to have a earthquake" (for the ground on which we stand to be shaken), which you can find on Nihon Shoki. As time passed, people changed "naifuru" to "for an earthquake to occur", then "nai" came to mean simply "earthquake". So her name means "The child of heaven, from the small family serving the Nai clan, who are in charge of earthquakes".
- Tenshi in Japanese can also mean "angel" (天使), a likely reference to her being a Celestial, and an ironic use of the word (considering Tenshi's actual character) by ZUN, in line with the other lampooning of Heaven and Heavenly beings within Touhou.
Trivia
- Her profile mentions "Oomura no Kami" and "Nai clan". In fact, there is the Nai Shrine (名居神社) in Nabari City, and the Oomura Shrine (大村神社) in Iga City, both in Mie Prefecture. The former shrine stands in Shimo-hinachi (下比奈知), and the latter has the Keystone and the Statue of Catfish as goshintai.
- The "wi" (ゐ) in Hinanawi is a kana that was removed from official Japanese language use by the post-war government in 1954. In present day Japanese, her last name is pronounced "Hinanai". The kana "wi" (ゐ) is still used artistically or stylistically as it is here in the case of Hinanawi (or cf. Nikka Brand Whiskey "ニッカウヰスキー"), and is similar to "thy" or "thou" in English: recognizable and still used, but almost never for official documents. Additionally, she would have received her name centuries before "wi" (ゐ) was legislated out of official use by the government.
- While Tenshi is called a Tennin (天人) many of the mythological references Tenshi makes are those of the Tenbu (天部, Deva in sanskrit) In Buddhism, Deva are humans that have achieved enlightment and in Scarlet Wheather Rhapsody, Tenshi mentions the five signs of death of a Deva. Deva's are also known to be mortal in Buddhism, living long lives, but still remaining part of the circle of life and death. This too, ties in with the events in Komachi's SWR scenario. Considering earlier references by ZUN to the Tennin (such as several of Youmu's spell cards in PCB) both Tenbu and Tennin are the same in Gensokyo.
- One of her color palettes in Hitsoutensoku resembles Renko.
Fandom
- Sometimes, Tenshi's first name can also be read as "Tenko": when the fans were speculating about new characters on Touhou Project Board before the release of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, an anonymous poster jokingly uploaded an image that supposedly listed all the names of the characters including that of an unknown character, "緋想 天子" (engl. Tenko Hisou) in the middle. This name was too obvious; adding the most common Japanese suffix for girls' names, "-ko", after the title "Hisouten". The name was from then on adopted as a tentative name for the final boss, because such an obvious name sounded very funny. Surprisingly, it turned out that she has those same characters in her first name, "天子", but a different pronunciation, "Tenshi".
- As a result of this, Tenko has been a fan nickname for her, and she sometimes participates in Ran Yakumo's Suppa Tenko running gag.
- Many also refer to her as simply "Peaches", for obvious reasons. The Japanese nickname is "Momoko".
- The peaches on her hat are also depicted in fanworks to be her source of power.
- Due to her apparent eagerness to be beaten up by the other characters in SWR's story mode (with dialogue lines such as "Yes, get angry! Because if you don't punish me, Gensokyo shall be no more!"), she has gained a reputation as a masochist. Probably that is why her masochistic feeling of ecstasy is called, instead of "zecchou", "uchouten"(有頂天), which should originally means one's bad mind, "be in excessive glory".
- As a result, she often appears along with Yuuka Kazami in some fanworks.
- Tenshi when written as "天子" can also mean "the emperor", being the son of heaven.
- That said, if Perfect Memento's article can be taken as a guide, Tenshi was a human and is now referred to as a Celestial, per the Character profile in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.
- Tenshi's weapons include innumerable danmaku keystones of various sizes and her shape-shifting sword Hisou no Tsurugi.
Spell Cards
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地符「不譲土壌の剣」 | Earth Sign "Sword of Unletting Soil" | SWR | Use | |||
非想「非想非非想の剣」 | Non-Perception "Sword of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception" | SWR | Use | |||
天符「天道是非の剣」 | Heaven Sign "Sword of Divine Justice" | SWR | Use | |||
地震「先憂後楽の剣」 | Earthquake "Sword of Pleasure After Hardship" | SWR GoM |
Use — | |||
気符「天啓気象の剣」 | Spirit Sign "Sword of Meteorological Revelation" | SWR | Use | |||
要石「天地開闢プレス」 | Keystone "World Creation Press" | SWR | Use | |||
気符「無念無想の境地」 | Spirit Sign "State of Freedom from Worldly Thoughts" | SWR GoM |
Use — | |||
「全人類の緋想天」 | "Sky of Scarlet Perception of All Humankind" | SWR SWR DS GoM |
Use Story St. 10 — | |||
要石「天空の霊石」 | Keystone "Sky's Spiritual Stone" | SWR | Story | |||
乾坤「荒々しくも母なる大地よ」 | Qian & Kun "Violent Land that Mothers All" | SWR GoM |
Story — | |||
霊想「大地を鎮める石」 | Spirit Thought "Stone that Calms the Lands" | SWR GoM |
Story — | |||
天地「世界を見下ろす遥かなる大地よ」 | Heaven & Earth "Land that Oversees the Distant World Below" | SWR GoM |
Story — | |||
剣技「気炎万丈の剣」 | Sword Skill "Sword of Ebullience" | Soku | Use | |||
天気「緋想天促」 | Weather "Scarlet Weather Stimulation" | Soku | Use | |||
気性「勇気凛々の剣」 | Temperament "High-Spirited Sword" | DS GoU |
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地震「避難険路」 | Earthquake "Escarpment Evacuation Route" | DS | St. 10 | |||
要石「カナメファンネル」 | Keystone "Kaname Funnel" | DS AoCF GoU |
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「全妖怪の緋想天」 | "Sky of Scarlet Perception of All Youkai" | ISC | St. 10 | |||
「鹿島鎮護」 | "Kashima Protection" | ISC | St. 10 | |||
地符「一撃震乾坤」 | Earth Sign "Qian & Kun Earthquake Strike" | AoCF | Use | |||
桃符「堅牢堅固の仙桃」 | Peach Sign "Hermit's Peach of Steadfast Durability" | AoCF | Use | |||
*大気圏は我が手中にあり* | *All the Atmosphere is Within My Reach!* | AoCF | Use-LW | |||
昇槌符「僕らの夢を載せて大きくなあれ」 | Rising Mallet Sign "Carry Our Dreams and Grow Bigger!" | Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru | AoCF | Story | ||
墜槌符「夢は大気圏に落ちて大きくなあれ」 | Plummeting Mallet Sign "Dreams Fall Through the Atmosphere and Grow Bigger!" | Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru | AoCF | Story | ||
「全小人族の緋想天」 | "Sky of Scarlet Perception of All Inchlings" | Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru | AoCF | Story | ||
夢要符「羊毛色の乾坤一擲」 | Dream Keystone Sign "Wool-Colored Toss Staking Heaven & Earth" | Co-owner with Doremy | AoCF | Story | ||
昇符「遥か宙まで飛べ! 僕らの夢を載せて」 | Rise Sign "Soar to Distant Skies, Carrying Our Dreams!" | Used by Tenshi's Dream World self | AoCF | Story | ||
墜符「大気圏に落ちて、夢は地表に降り注ぐ」 | Plummet Sign "Falling Through the Atmosphere, Dreams Rain Down Upon the Ground" | Used by Tenshi's Dream World self | AoCF | Story | ||
「大地を造り直そう、夢のある世界へ!」 | "Rebuild the Whole Land Into a World of Dreams!" | Used by Tenshi's Dream World self | AoCF | Story | ||
「ヒュージバトルシップ 無双ナマズ見参」 | "A Huge Battleship: 'Invincible Catfish' Is Approaching Fast!" | Used by Tenshi's Dream World self | AoCF | Story (Overdrive) | ||
「全スペースピープルの緋想天」 | "Sky of Scarlet Perception of All Space People" | Used by Tenshi's Dream World self | AoCF | Story (Overdrive) | ||
緋針符「要石も大きくなあれ」 | Scarlet Needle Sign "Keystones Grow Bigger, Too!" | Co-owner with Shinmyoumaru | VD | Nightmare Tuesday - 2 | ||
永緋符「墜落する壺中の有頂天」 | Eternal Scarlet Sign "Plummeting Bhava-agra in a Jar" | Co-owner with Eirin | VD | Nightmare Tuesday - 3 | ||
緋夜符「蓬莱の弾の要石」 | Scarlet Night Sign "Bullet Keystones of Hourai" | Co-owner with Kaguya | VD | Nightmare Tuesday - 6 | ||
要石「乾坤鳴動砲」 | Keystone "Qian & Kun Rumbling Cannon" | 100BM | 5th Market | |||
要石「拡散乾坤鳴動砲」 | Keystone "Diffuse Qian & Kun Rumbling Cannon" | 100BM | 5th Market |
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Official Profiles
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody - おまけ.txt
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○非想非非想天の娘 比那名居 天子(ひななゐ てんし)
住家:天界
緋想の剣の能力:気質を見極める程度の能力
性格:温室育ちで、自分勝手。有頂天。
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Girl of the Highest Heaven (*) Tenshi Hinanawi
Species: Mostly-Failed Celestial A delinquent celestial living in the heavens. The Hinanawi clan used to be a family of priests who were tasked to protect the Keystone, which kept earthquakes under control. However, even with the Hinanawi keystone, earthquakes occurred rather often. They occurred so often that it went out of the hands of Oomura-no-Kami, a celestial who was in charge of earthquakes at that time, so the Nai clan, who had been serving the celestials, was ordered to take over the job around the Gensokyo area. The Nai clan was a family of surface priests, but was later enshrined as divine spirits in a small shrine beside a mountain lake known as Nai-no-Kami. The Nai-no-Kami still watches after Gensokyo quietly. At the same time, the Hinanawi clan was transferred to heaven as a reward for serving Nai-no-Kami when it was still alive. However, unlike other celestials, the Hinanawis became celestials only by serving Nai-no-Kami; that is, not through training. So they didn't have the reputation expected of celestials, and some even called them "bad" celestials. When the Hinanawis became celestials, their daughter Chiko Hinanawi followed them to be a celestial, even though she was only a mere girl. Chiko renamed herself Tenshi when she moved to heaven. She was not satisfied with how she was treated in heaven, and often looked at Gensokyo with jealousy toward the humans and youkai on the surface. One day, a sudden urge hit her as she saw surface youkai using their power to invoke disaster and enjoy the following events. "Gee, I'm tired of this boring celestial life! I can invoke a disaster too!!" Then she darted out of her home, with the Sword of Hisou, a celestial tool, in her hand...
Ability to invoke or suppress an earthquake. Although effective area is not wide, she can cause an earthquake in a remote area as long as it's inside Gensokyo. This ability also allows her to cause disasters such as subsidence or mudslide. Also, only the Hinanawi clan is allowed to put or remove Keystones in Gensokyo. It is said that upon removal of the Keystones, all the ground in Gensokyo will shake.
The Sword of Hisou is a celestial-only item that allows the wielder to exploit the opponent's weakness, no matter what. First, the sword converts the opponent's spiritual nature to scarlet mist, then to the form that everyone can see. As the opponent's nature has surfaced, the sword can change itself to the most effective attributes. Spiritual nature surfaced by the sword takes the form of weather. Spirits slashed by the sword become scarlet mist, then the mist changes the weather. Tenshi thinks that with her Keystone and Sword of Hisou, she can control all heaven, surface, and humans.
She is very earthy for a celestial, and lacks charisma. That's not surprising, however, because she became a celestial only because the entire Hinanawi family became celestials when Nai became a divine spirit. Therefore, she lacks awareness of being a celestial. An overly well-endowed environment obviously had a negative effect on Tenshi's childhood. She doesn't consider what her actions mean to other people, for one. She has absolute confidence in her abilities, and gets mad if someone insults them. |
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ZUN Design
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Book Synopsis
The Grimoire of Marisa
- Main article: The Grimoire of Marisa/Tenshi Hinanawi's Spell Cards
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