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Stage 6

Spell Cards

Midboss Spell Cards

Spell Card 159

一之力「手玉玲珑」(Yī zhī lì "Shǒuyù línglóng")
First Power "Jade Bracelet's Clear Chime" ^[1]

Owner

Inori Jinguuji
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 160

二之力「涅槃不死」(Èr zhī lì "Nièpán bùsǐ")
Second Power "Nirvana Immortality"

Owner

Inori Jinguuji
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 161

三之力「盈虚祝祷」(Sān zhī lì "Yíngxū zhùdǎo")
Third Power "Prayers of Abundance and Emptiness"

Owner

Inori Jinguuji
Extra — Extra

Boss Spell Cards

Spell Card 162

祀符「薄命者垂怜」(Sìfú "Bómìngzhě chuílián")
Enshrinement Sign "Pity for Short, Unfortunate Lives"^[2]

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 163

命符「木花移落的诅咒」(Mìngfú "Mùhuā yíluò de zǔzhòu")
Life Sign "Curse of Flowers Withering Away" ^[3]

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 164

源符「信浓的山葵」(Yuánfú "Xìnnóng de shānkuí")
Source Sign "Wasabi of Shinano" ^[4]

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 165

姊神「凭依富士的信仰」(Zǐshén "Píngyī fùshì de xìnyǎng")
Elder Sister Goddess "Faith Dependent on Fuji"

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 166

永苦「织姬渊的遗恨」(Yǒngkǔ "Zhījī yuān de yíhèn")
Eternal Suffering "Lingering Grudge of the Weaver Girl's Gorge" ^[5]

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 167

生符「侘向近道论」(Shēngfú "Chà xiàng jìndào lùn")
Life Sign "Theory of a Shortcut to Wabi"

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 168

变石「风雨千年，磐石亦转」(Biànshí "Fēngyǔ qiānnián, pánshí yì zhuǎn")
Changing Stone "Millennia of Wind and Rain Can Shift Even Boulders"

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 169

时魔法「Exponential Entropy」(Shímófǎ "Exponential Entropy")
Time Magic "Exponential Entropy"

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 170

「人生无常，柳枝何需惆」("Rénshēng wúcháng, liǔzhī hé xū chóu")
"Man's Life is Ever-Flowing; Why is the Willow Branch Sorrowful?" ^[6]

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Spell Card 171

石符「无拘无待的不二之神」(Shífú "Wújūwúdài de bùèr zhī shén")
Stone Sign "Unbound and Unlingering Incomparable God" ^[7]

Owner

Ei Iwabuchi
Extra — Extra

Notes

↑ A reference to Ninigi's first encounter with Konohanasakuya-hime and Iwanaga-hime in the Nihon Shoki, where the sisters are described as wearing bracelets that jangle as they weave on their looms.
↑ Due to Iwanaga-hime's powers of permanence and stillness, she is sometimes worshipped explicitly for hopes of longevity. Hieda no Akyuu brings this up in Forbidden Scrollery.
↑ Reference to Konohanasakuya-hime's marriage and Iwanaga-hime's rejection in the Nihon Shoki. Because Ninigi spurned Iwanaga-hime, the goddess of longetivity, his and Konohanasakuya-hime's descendants were cursed by the goddesses' father to lead glorious but short lives. This is described with the sentence 必如木花之移落 (lit. "It shall be like the swaying of flowers and trees"), from which the Spell Card's name borrows its phrasing.
↑ Nagano Prefecture (formerly Shinano Province) is home to both the Yatsugatake mountain range, where Iwanaga-hime is said to dwell, and abundant sources of wasabi plants.
↑ Various regions of Japan are home to folklore of apparitions of women weaving in flooded ravines, including variants where the woman haunts the ravine after drowning there. Some scholars have connected this to folklore of tanabatatsume (棚機津女), women who weave robes in ritual enclosures by a waterside. When Ninigi meets them in the Nihon Shoki, Konohanasakuya-hime and Iwanaga-hime are similarly described as weaving in a palace built atop the crests of waves.
↑ Partial quotes from two poems: "年の瀬や水の流れと人の身は" by Takarai Kikaku, and "何をくよくよ川端柳水の流れをみて暮らそう" by Sakamoto Ryouma. Both liken a person's life to the ever-changing flow of a river, and are quoted by the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human at one point in the novel.
↑ 不二 (one-of-a-kind, incomparable, etc.) would be pronounced 'fuji' in Japanese; potentially a pun on Mount Fuji?

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Spell Cards

[1] A reference to Ninigi's first encounter with Konohanasakuya-hime and Iwanaga-hime in the Nihon Shoki, where the sisters are described as wearing bracelets that jangle as they weave on their looms.

[2] Due to Iwanaga-hime's powers of permanence and stillness, she is sometimes worshipped explicitly for hopes of longevity. Hieda no Akyuu brings this up in Forbidden Scrollery.

[3] Reference to Konohanasakuya-hime's marriage and Iwanaga-hime's rejection in the Nihon Shoki. Because Ninigi spurned Iwanaga-hime, the goddess of longetivity, his and Konohanasakuya-hime's descendants were cursed by the goddesses' father to lead glorious but short lives. This is described with the sentence 必如木花之移落 (lit. "It shall be like the swaying of flowers and trees"), from which the Spell Card's name borrows its phrasing.

[4] Nagano Prefecture (formerly Shinano Province) is home to both the Yatsugatake mountain range, where Iwanaga-hime is said to dwell, and abundant sources of wasabi plants.

[5] Various regions of Japan are home to folklore of apparitions of women weaving in flooded ravines, including variants where the woman haunts the ravine after drowning there. Some scholars have connected this to folklore of tanabatatsume (棚機津女), women who weave robes in ritual enclosures by a waterside. When Ninigi meets them in the Nihon Shoki, Konohanasakuya-hime and Iwanaga-hime are similarly described as weaving in a palace built atop the crests of waves.

[6] Partial quotes from two poems: "年の瀬や水の流れと人の身は" by Takarai Kikaku, and "何をくよくよ川端柳水の流れをみて暮らそう" by Sakamoto Ryouma. Both liken a person's life to the ever-changing flow of a river, and are quoted by the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human at one point in the novel.

[7] 不二 (one-of-a-kind, incomparable, etc.) would be pronounced 'fuji' in Japanese; potentially a pun on Mount Fuji?

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