List of Touhou Project Characters - Other Characters

Other Characters

Rinnosuke Morichika (森近 霖之助, Morichika Rinnosuke?)

• Species: Half-human half-yōkai
• Ability: Determining the name and the purpose of unknown items
• Residence: Kourindou

Rinnosuke is a half-human who runs an antique and collectibles shop known as Kourindou, which faces the forest of magic from the human village, in the space between the shrine, village, and forest. The journey from the village to the forest is of a more preferable kind than other journeys. Starting with Muenzuka, Rinnosuke collected things from the outside world and the Netherworld, and handles all kinds of tools regardless of whether they are for human or yōkai use, which was indicated as a unique kind of shop, called by Rinnosuke himself as a "shop that sells found things." It also handles things from the outside world, like personal computers, digital cameras, and kitchen stoves, but all products displayed have no price attached to them making price negotiations necessary, and there are also many goods that are not up for sale from the start. It also handles miscellaneous daily items like teacups, and thus Remilia Scarlet and Sakuya Izayoi are frequent customers.

He is the main character of Curiosities of Lotus Asia, and the only active humanoid male character in the Touhou series. He is also one of the few characters who seem to have no fighting ability. Marisa calls him Kourin, and that is the name he is usually known as. Despite his ability, he does not know how to use the unknown gadgets. Hence, he makes many false theories of his own about the foreign objects from the outside world. For example, he called a Game Boy a device that allows the user to control humans and possibly destroy the whole world. Later, Yukari corrects him that it is a device that allows the user to control imaginary humans and possibly destroy the whole imaginary world in any place. With few customers, other than some persistent loiterers like Reimu and Marisa, Rinnosuke spends most of his time pursuing his hobby of researching the world beyond Gensokyo. Much of his stock comes from the outside world, and he seems to have a close business relationship with Yukari, who procures the items for him.

Unnamed book-reading yōkai

• Species: Yōkai
• Ability: Unknown
• Residence: Unknown

She is a minor yōkai whom Reimu beat up and stole a set of books from. She tracked them to Kourindou, where Reimu had traded them to Rinnosuke, and became a standard fixture there as she argues daily with Rinnosuke, trying to recover her property. Despite appearing frequently in Curiosities of Lotus Asia, she has never been given an official name, although she is named "Tokiko" by fans.

Renko Usami (宇佐見 蓮子, Usami Renko?)

• Species: Human
• Ability: Telling the time by seeing the stars, determining her location by watching the moon
• Residence: Kyoto, originally from Tokyo

Renko Usami is a physics student from Japan. She and Merry form the two-person occult circle, the Secret Seals Club, which investigates Gensokyo. She plays the role of skeptic, as Merry is the only one who's actually been inside Gensokyo, but sincerely believes Merry in the end. Although a normal human, with a glance of the sky, she is instantly able to determine her location and the current time to within a second; she has been described as "a human GPS." She is from the short stories that come with ZUN's music collections.

Maribel Hearn (マエリベリー・ハーン, Maeriberī Hān?, alternate spelling Maribel Han)

• Species: Human
• Ability: See Gensokyo's boundaries
• Residence: Kyoto, originally from outside Japan

Maribel Hearn, nicknamed Merry, is a psychology student and friend of Renko's. She and Renko form the two-person occult circle, the Secret Seals Club, which investigates Gensokyo. Descended from a long line of magicians, she is one of the few humans who can perceive and cross Gensokyo's boundaries. Unused to this ability, she tends to wander through by accident, thinks she is merely dreaming and gets herself into dangerous situations. She is from the short stories that come with ZUN's music collections. There has been no official romanization of her name, so her English name here is an approximation. She also appears strikingly similar to Yukari Yakumo, right down to the clothes they wear, leading people to believe they are connected somehow.

Hieda no Akyu (稗田 阿求, Hieda no Akyū?)

• Species: Human
• Ability: Never forgets anything she sees
• Residence: Human Village

She is currently the "Child of Miare" (御阿礼の子, Miare no Ko?) who was born in the Hieda family once in every few hundred years with ability to "not forget anything she sees" and records Gensokyo's history. She seems to like black tea. Despite her young age, her memory goes back 1200 years. This is because every "Child of Miare" of the Hieda family is a reincarnation of previous "Child of Miare", who inherits the memories of the previous incarnates. She is the ninth reincarnation in the line, as reflected by her name — a pun of the Japanese word for "nine". Each time she reincarnates, her life span gets shorter and shorter. The "Miare" referred to is the real-life Hieda no Are, who compiled the Kojiki. Also, she is the first "Child of Miare" to be born after the sealing of Gensokyo. She is on the cover of Akyu's Untouched Score, the original soundtracks for the PC-98 Touhou games, and is also the narrator of the book Perfect Memento of Strict Sense. It is possible that she may be a fellow scholar of Keine Kamishirasawa.

Shanghai (上海, Shanhai?)

• Species: Doll
• Residence: Forest of Magic

One of Alice's dolls and has appeared more than Hourai. Despite having appeared in three of Alice's spell cards in Perfect Cherry Blossom and one in Immaterial and Missing Power, she is weaker than Hourai. It is purely coincidental that Shanghai and Alice are the creations of Team Shanghai Alice as all the names of her dolls are named after locations.

Hourai (蓬莱, Hōrai?)

• Species: Doll
• Residence: Forest of Magic

Another one of Alice's dolls, like Shanghai. She has appeared less than Shanghai, but is stronger than her. Since both dolls' appearances are identical, fans tend to change Hourai's appearance by giving her a bonnet instead of a ribbon. She has no known connection to Kaguya Houraisan or Fujiwara no Mokou.

Reisen (レイセン?)

• Species: Moon rabbit
• Residence: Capital of the Moon

A moon rabbit (not related to Udonge) tasked to make the elixir of life for Chang'e, she got tired of her work and fled to Gensokyo with a lunar veil that allows her to take flight. She met Eirin Yagokoro, who gave her a letter to deliver to the two princesses on the moon. She is now a pet of the two princesses, who named her "Reisen" after their previous pet that fled to earth some time ago. She is from the manga Silent Sinner in Blue.

Watatsuki no Toyohime (綿月 豊姫?)

• Species: Lunarian
• Ability: Linking the Mountain and the Sea
• Residence: Capital of the Moon

One of the princesses of the moon, she and her younger sister Yorihime are the leaders of the lunar emissaries—the same ones who were in charge of bringing Kaguya back to the moon. As such, their stance should be that of enmity toward Eirin, who betrayed the emissaries; however, as Eirin was once their respected tutor, they harbor no ill feelings toward the exiled Lunarians in Eientei. She is from the manga Silent Sinner in Blue. She is supposed to be the Japanese goddesss Toyotama-hime, otherwise known as Otohime, the princess in the Urashima Taro legend.

Watatsuki no Yorihime (綿月 依姫?)

• Species: Lunarian
• Ability: Possession by the Gods
• Residence: Capital of the Moon

The more serious counterpart to her elder sister Toyohime, and is also a princess of the moon. She seemed to absorb everything that Eirin said. Like Reimu, Yorihime can summon Japanese Gods to use their powers. She is from the manga Silent Sinner in Blue. She is based on the Japanese goddesss Tamayori-hime.

Kasen Ibara (茨 華仙, Ibara Kasen?)

• Species: Sennin
• Ability: Understanding what birds say, crushing onryou, instant movement, using animals, remote control of artificial arms, connecting separate spaces, guiding and transfiguring youkai, hiding her home using fangshu, creating and controlling light orbs
• Residence: Seen at the Hakurei Shrine and the Human Village
• Also known as: The one-armed, horned hermit

A mysterious girl who describes herself as "a simple pilgrim" and shows up at the Hakurei Shrine looking for the so-called "arm of the kappa". She is introduced in her name panel as "the one-armed, horned hermit," so it is safe to assume she is a hermit. During the second chapter, she is shown as able to destroy evil spirits with her bandaged arm. However, because she supposedly has horns and her left wrist has a shackle, it might also be safe to assume that she is an Oni (ZUN once stated that for him, horns and shackles are the mark of Oni). According to ZUN, she is one of the possible Extra Stage boss of Ten Desires, along with Byakuren Hijiri. She is also mentioned in the game's fourth ending, explaining that Marisa heard from Kasen that the ultimate goal of Taoism is to achieve immortality.

Kosuzu Motoori (本居 小鈴, Motoori Kosuzu?)

• Species: Human
• Residence: Human village
• Ability: Deciphering books

Kosuzu is the owner of Suzunaan, a book renting store. She was introduced as the protagonist of Forbidden Scrollery.