inɯbaɕiɽi momidʑi (♫) Momiji Inubashiri Momizi Inubashiri More Alternative Spellings | |
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 Illustration of Momiji Inubashiri in Strange Creators of Outer World The Petty Patrol TenguMore Character Titles | |
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Seeing a thousand ri ahead |
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At least over 62 years old, said to be especially long-lived [1] |
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Patrolling and guarding Youkai Mountain |
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Momiji Inubashiri (犬走 椛, Inubashiri Momiji) is a white wolf tengu whose duty is to patrol the Youkai Mountain. She first appeared as the Stage 4 midboss in Mountain of Faith.
Momiji has a very cooperative personality who executes her duties faithfully. In her free time, she plays dai shōgi with the kappa. [1]
Momiji has a telegnosis ability that allows her to see a thousand ri ahead (approximately 3,927 kilometres, or 2,440 miles). She also has a superior sense of smell, that combined with her ability makes her able to detect any intruder in an instant.
Hieda no Akyuu describes tengu as one of the strongest species, both in physical and sorcerous abilities. [2] While nothing about Momiji herself has especially come to light, she is likely to possess some of those traits, such as their (almost) unmatched speed.
She works as one of the Youkai Mountain tengu's patrols. Her job is to attempt to stop intruders on the mountain with simple attacks and report any that were undeterred to Tenma.
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○４面中ボス 下っ端哨戒天狗 犬走 椛（いぬばしり もみじ） 種族：白狼天狗 妖怪の山で見回りをしている天狗。 彼女の部隊は普段、滝の裏側で待機している。 ただし、妖怪の山には滅多に侵入者は無くていつも暇している。 寿命が長い妖怪達にとっては、暇つぶしの手段を探すのも難しい。 |
Stage 4 Midboss The Petty Patrol Tengu Momiji Inubashiri Species: White Wolf Tengu A tengu that patrols the Youkai Mountain. Thanks to her superior senses of sight and smell, she can detect any intruder in an instant. When she discovers intruders she attempts to intimidate them with simple attacks, and once they cannot handle the intruders, they reports to the Great Tengu. Her forces are usually lying in wait behind the waterfall. She has a very cooperative personality and executes her duties faithfully. This is unusual for youkai, but not uncommon in tengu society. However, she usually has a lot of free time, as the Youkai Mountain doesn't receive many intruders. While awaiting orders, she enjoys playing a rather time-consuming game called Dai shogi with the nearby kappa. It's hard for the especially long-lived youkai to find good ways to pass the time. |
Momiji's wolf-like appearance may be a reference to the Tiangou, a Chinese version of a tengu that is described to be more dog-like.
Her full name is Momiji Inubashiri (犬走 椛). Inubashiri (犬走, lit. "dog run") is an actual used (but very rare) surname in Japan. It refers to the dirt path outside of building or residence used for patrols ("berm" is corresponded to the term in this usage on the English Wikipedia) — the etymology of this word comes from the fact that the path is so narrow that only a dog can rush through it in a very short time, which has effect to give Momiji's image her speedy might. But the word also indicates her simple-but-fundamental social class; she protects the basement of architecture from erosion, like the occupation of white wolf tengu. Momiji refers to maple in general, when read as "Momiji" the kanji refers to maple leaves, which reflected on her design. While the kanji "Momiji" has an alternative pronunciation "Kaba," it has rarely been used in modern Japanese.
Based on her small sprite in Mountain of Faith, Double Spoiler and Impossible Spell Card, and her illustration in Strange Creators of Outer World, it can be seen that she wears a white, long-sleeved shirt, and a large black skirt with red flame-like designs reaching up from the bottom of the skirt, and that it has a white layer below her skirt. She has short light silver hair and wears a red tokin. She holds a large scimitar-like sword and a white, round shield with a red maple leaf print on it.
She appears in several print works depicted with detached sleeves and wolf ears. However, she is also depicted without wolf ears by Aya Azuma in Wild and Horned Hermit, and her articles in Symposium of Post-mysticism and Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia.
Momiji is the stage 4 midboss of Mountain of Faith. When the heroine finally reached Youkai Mountain during Mountain of Faith, Momiji attempted to stop her at the waterfall. Although Momiji was unsuccessful, it seems she did fulfill her duty of reporting the intruder's presence back to the other tengu with record speed, as a reinforcement tengu named Aya Shameimaru had arrived by the end of the same stage to investigate what was going on.
Momiji is one of the many who has her danmaku photographed by Aya Shameimaru and Hatate Himekaidou, appearing on stage 4.
Momiji attacks Seija Kijin on the Youkai Mountain on day 6, using a spell card that is considered impossible to dodge. It's unknown if Momiji actually went out searching for Seija like many others, or if she was just doing her job of keeping Seija away from the Youkai Mountain.
Back in 1963, Momiji had discovered new Shogi pieces from the outside world in Muenzuka. Having believed that the tengu were the only ones creating unique rules for the game, she became a bit frustrated that the same thing was happening in the outside world. She wanted to see how Shogi had developed in the outside world, then speculated that the game had become simplified, because the pieces she found couldn't be promoted.
Momiji has her own article in Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia about the new ropeway at Youkai Mountain. In addition, she was roped into a risqué article complaining about Tengu society.
In The Grimoire of Usami, Momiji shows off her spell card, Fang Sign "Chewing Satisfaction".
When she meets Aya they often get into fights with each other. According to Aya, Momiji looks down on her and the other crow tengu. Hatate, however, implies that this is only a personal feud between Momiji and Aya. [3]
She is very loyal to the chief of the tengu, Lord Tenma.
She's an avid player of Dai Shōgi, which she plays with the kappa when she is bored. [1]
Momiji in Symposium of Post-mysticism, with other characters who don't appear in the book.
Illustration of Momiji in Alternative Facts in Eastern Utopia
Momiji's fortune slip in Whispered Oracle of Hakurei Shrine
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