• Welcome to Touhou Wiki!
  • Registering is temporarily disabled. Check in our Discord server to request an account and for assistance of any kind.

Hina Kagiyama

From Touhou Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(かぎ) (やま)   (ひな)
kaɡijama çina (♫)
Hina Kagiyama
Hina Kagiyama
Hina Kagiyama in Mountain of Faith
The Hidden God Nagashi-bina
More Character Titles
Species

Misfortune God

Abilities

Stockpiling misfortune

Occupation

Chasing away lost humans, gathering the misfortune of humans

Location

The Great Youkai Forest, near a river

Music Themes
Appearances
Official Games
Print Works

"I'm sure we've met before, but I'm just here to gather misfortune, now."
Hina Kagiyama (Mountain of Faith Stage 2)

Hina Kagiyama (鍵山 雛 Kagiyama Hina) is a misfortune god and the leader of the Nagashi-bina doll army. Her job is to gather the misfortune of humans, as well as scare off lost humans who get too near to the Youkai Mountain at the Great Youkai Forest.

General Information

Hina first appeared as the Stage 2 boss in Mountain of Faith, but had no relation to the incident within that game's story. She was later a target on stage 2 of Double Spoiler and was in the background of Hopeless Masquerade.

Hina is a misfortune god, but as they don't collect faith or have any shrines dedicated to them, they are more gods in name rather than nature.

Personality

Hina's personality is unclear, but according to those who have come in contact with her, she appears to be friendly and sociable.

Abilities

Stockpiling misfortune

Hina possesses the ability to store and manage misfortune inside herself. By people's exorcism, she collects misfortune, and is able to stockpile it in her surroundings. Misfortune in her surroundings possesses power to give any kind of human or youkai misfortune, which causes misfortune to humans and youkai that come near her. However, this does not mean she stockpiles the misfortune in herself, and since it is always in the "surroundings" that she stockpiles the misfortune, she definitely does not become misfortune herself.

The misfortune that she takes up from humans is given over to other gods. She holds no ill will towards humans, however, and amasses misfortune merely as a way of preventing it from befalling others. The negative energy of misfortune is what gives Hina her power. As one that stores the misfortune, it can be said that from a certain point of view, she also possesses good fortune.

In order to amass this misfortune, she collects the Nagashi-bina dolls in which humans use to put their own misfortune and float downstream. Perhaps as a performance of her stockpiling of misfortune in danmaku, her spinning may be a reference to her ability to store up curses. This is because the kanji for "curse" ( yaku) looks somewhat like a swirl, just like the one on her dress. It can be seen that something like misfortune flies in Hina's surroundings, developing into danmaku as a spiral. It seems like she throws them as bullets in the form of amulets. Additionally, a purple-blue-ish fog can be seen swarming around her when she casts a spell card.

Occupation

In addition to scaring off humans from the Youkai Mountain and amassing misfortune, she has apparently begun selling the Nagashi-bina dolls that she collects as a form of recycling. However, as it is generally a taboo to pay any attention to a misfortune god, her stand is probably ignored.

Character Design

Hina, as illustrated in Symposium of Post-mysticism.

Hina is a misfortune goddess (厄神 yakujin). By utilizing the Japanese ritual nagashi-bina (流し雛) – a custom which people transfer their impurity (穢れ kegare) and misfortune ( yaku) on to a hina doll (雛人形 hina ningyou) and then putting it into a river to be carried away – she collects the misfortune by gathering the hina dolls at the downstream.[1]

Name

Her name is Hina Kagiyama (鍵山雛). The characters for Kagiyama (鍵山) literally mean "key mountain". Hina () usually means "(bird) chick", but in her case, it's highly likely that it came from the event of nagashi-bina (流し).

Design

In Mountain of Faith's official art, Hina has aquamarine hair and eyes. Her hair is decorated with red bows and white frills. Part of her hair is tied under her chin with a bow as a sort front ponytail. She wears a red dress which is darker around her middle and lighter on the bottom. The dress also has white frills on the bottom and an enormous white kerchief on top. The bottom of her dress is decorated with a similar aquamarine swirl resembling the "" (misfortune) kanji at the bottom. As footwear she has knee-length black cross-laced boots similar to Alice Margatroid's.

At the fight Hina is spinning during all her spell card attacks. And apparently it is her speciality, as explained in The Grimoire of Marisa. This is also seen in Double Spoiler.

Appearances

Mountain of Faith
Hina's sprite in MoF

Depending on who you choose as a playable character, Hina will either face Reimu Hakurei or Marisa Kirisame in the stage 2 fight of Mountain of Faith at the Great Youkai Forest near a river.

Hina tries to chase Reimu away during the midboss fight, as she explains that it's her job to chase away lost humans. But Reimu claims she isn't lost and just want to go to the Youkai Mountain and then starts to fight as she thinks Hina is a youkai. Hina once again tries to stop Reimu, but fails.

Marisa says it takes so long to enter the mountain that she could "recite all the digits of pi" before she gets there. Hina then enters and is wondering what Marisa is talking about. Hina does not want Marisa, or any other human, to enter the mountain as it could be dangerous. Hina is trying to protect them from the mountain, but Marisa wants to enter the mountain anyway and starts fighting with Hina.

Spin-offs

Double Spoiler

In Double Spoiler, Hina appeared as a stage 2 target, where she uses a few spell cards and had Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou take photos of her and her danmaku.

Hopeless Masquerade
Hina in HM

Hina made a background cameo appearance in Hopeless Masquerade on the Genbu Ravine and Youkai Tanuki Forest stage. She is seen standing waving her hand.

Print works

Foul Detective Satori

She briefly appears at the end of chapter 18, where she discovers a printed circuit board in the river, wondering where such an item could've come from. In the following chapter, she's shown talking to Rin Kaenbyou about the unconscious body she saw washed up at said river, which she identified as Nitori Kawashiro, along with the machine parts she found along the way.

Gallery

Illustrations

Others

Spell Cards

Spell Cards
Name Translated Comments Games Stage
Total: 10
厄符「バッドフォーチュン」 Misfortune Sign "Bad Fortune" MoF St. 2: E/N
厄符「厄神様のバイオリズム」 Misfortune Sign "Biorhythm of the Misfortune God" MoF St. 2: H/L
疵符「ブロークンアミュレット」 Flawed Sign "Broken Amulet" MoF
GoM
St. 2: E/N
疵痕「壊されたお守り」 Scar "Broken Charm of Protection" MoF St. 2: H/L
悪霊「ミスフォーチュンズホイール」 Evil Spirit "Misfortune's Wheel" MoF St. 2: E/N
悲運「大鐘婆の火」 Tragic Fate "Old Lady Ohgane's Fire" MoF St. 2: H/L
創符「ペインフロー」 Wound Sign "Pain Flow" MoF
GoM
St. 2: E/N
創符「流刑人形」 Wound Sign "Exiled Doll" MoF St. 2: H/L
厄野「禊川の堆積」 Cursed Field "Purification River Deposit" DS St. 2
災禍「呪いの雛人形」 Calamity "Cursed Hina Dolls" DS
GoU
St. 2

Additional Information

Fandom

Official Profiles

Mountain of Faith - キャラ設定.txt
Hina Kagiyama ○2面ボス 秘神流し雛

  鍵山 雛(かぎやま ひな)
  Kagiyama Hina

  種族:厄神様
  能力:厄をため込む程度の能力

  悲劇の流し雛軍団の長である。厄払いで払われた厄を集めては、ため込んでいく。
  その為、彼女の周りには素人目にみても判るぐらいの厄が取り憑いている。

  彼女の近くでは、如何なる人間や妖怪でも不幸に会う。
  ただ、彼女自体は決して不幸にはならない。
  あくまでも周りにため込んでいるだけである。
  そして、厄が再び人間の元に戻らないように見張っている。

Stage 2 Boss The Hidden God Nagashi-bina


Hina Kagiyama

Species: Misfortune god
Power: Stockpiling misfortune

Head of the tragic Nagashi-bina doll army. She gathers and hoards bad luck expelled during cleansing rituals. The baleful aura that surrounds her is visible even to the untrained eye.

Any human or youkai around her will run into misfortune. However, she herself never has this problem. It only affects those around her. Hina does her best to make sure that misfortune does not befall humans once again.

Official Sources

Official sources

References

  1. Symposium of Post-mysticism: Hina Kagiyama's article.
  2. Ten Desires: Prologue - "For example, prayers for a great harvest, or protection from misfortune..."