Rumia (ルーミア Rūmia)
Species : Yōkai
Ability : Manipulation of darkness
Residence : Unknown

Her ability is to create a sphere of night around her, but as it doesn't impede vision significantly, it isn't useful in combat. It is rumored that her hair ribbon, an amulet which she can't touch, seals her true power.



Daiyousei (大妖精 Daiyōsei)
Species : Fairy
Ability : N/A
Residence : Lake of Fog

An almost inconsequential character who received no character profile in the game; fans named her Daiyousei (lit. "Big Fairy".) ZUN later attributed her as bright, playful, and full of expressions. Sometimes appears in doujinshi with Cirno.




Cirno (チルノ Chiruno)
Species : Ice fairy
Ability : Manipulation of chills
Residence : Lake of Fog

An ice fairy that lives on the lake surrounding the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Although she's weak from the players' perspective, she is one of the strongest of her kind in Gensokyo.

However, she is not very bright, and is a joke character second only to Meiling. Her hobby is freezing frogs and watching them revive as they thaw, but she tends to shatter them instead by accident.

Unlike Letty Whiterock, she radiates cold air year-round, and can stay awake even in spring and summer.




Hong Meirin (紅 美鈴 Hon Meirin)Alternate spelling Hoan Meiling, Hong Meiling
Species : Yōkai
Ability : Manipulation of qi
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion

A Chinese girl serving as the doorguard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Canonically, she is known to be a very humanoid yōkai who practices martial arts, but is generally friendly towards humans.

However, as Japanese fans find it hard to remember her name, she is often referred to just as "Chūgoku" (meaning China) and became a very popular joke character. In doujinshi she is usually rather pitiful and abused by the other residents of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, especially Sakuya. In compense, she defeated all characters from TH6-8 to win the second Touhou Saimoe popularity contest, and was added as a playable character in a patch for Immaterial and Missing Power.

Recurring joke themes with Hong Meirin in doujinshi usually involves her being impaled with Sakuya's knives.



Koakuma (小悪魔
Species : Devil
Ability : N/A
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion

Similar to Daiyousei, she received no character profile in the game and was named Koakuma (lit. "Little Devil") by fans. However, she is quite popular considering her status, more so than some of the lesser liked stage bosses.

ZUN later described her to be like Daiyousei — whimsical, enjoys pranks, and doesn't think before doing. He also added that while devils are powerful as vampires and magicians, Koakuma is a rather weak one, therefore, she is a Koakuma (Little Devil).





Patchouli Knowledge (パチュリー・ノーレッジ Pachurī Nōrejji)
Species : Witch
Ability : Magic, especially elemental magic
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion

A scholar who is a friend of Remilia Scarlet's. She resides in the library of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, and is the de-facto librarian. In fact, she rarely leaves it and is somewhat of a hikikomori.

She has command over the seven elements (which the Japanese days of the week are named after, making her the "One-week Wizard") and is in theory an extremely powerful magician. However, her constitution is very poor and asthma often prevents her from reciting her spells.

She has a tenuous relationship with Marisa, who tends to carry off her books without asking




Sakuya Izayoi (十六夜 咲夜 Izayoi Sakuya)
Species : Human
Ability : Manipulation of time
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion

Sakuya is the only human living in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, yet she is also the head maid. The official fanbook suggests she had been a vampire hunter before she began working in the mansion, but she was defeated by Remilia Scarlet who pitied her and gave Sakuya her current name.

Though she looks about sixteen like the other girls, Sakuya has the ability to slow, stop and possibly reverse time. She seems to have been serving Remilia for a long time and may be far older then she looks. Socially, she interacts mainly with the others in the Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Her talents are cooking, knife throwing and time manipulation. The latter two abilities characterize her appearances in-game.




Remilia Scarlet (レミリア・スカーレット Remiria Sukāretto)
Species : Vampire
Ability : Manipulation of fate
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion

Remilia is the vampiric mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion who claims to be descended from Vlad III Dracula although she is not. She is known as the Scarlet Devil as when she feeds, the blood of her victims stains her dress red. Apart from her unpleasant needs, she's hardly malicious enough to deserve such a title; merely childish, even though she's over five hundred years old.

Although being a vampire is normally a lonely life, she has a good relationship with her many employees (including Sakuya and Meiling) Reimu is one of the few humans who tolerates her, and Remilia seems quite fond of her in turn. Marisa also gets along with her in exchange for access to her library.





Flandle Scarlet (フランドール・スカーレット Furandōru Sukāretto) Alternate spelling Flandre Scarlet, Frandoll Scarlet
Species : Vampire
Ability : Wanton destruction
Residence : Scarlet Devil Mansion

Remilia's little sister, sealed away in the basement of the mansion for 495 years because of her destructive power. Despite this, she likes her sister and doesn't usually try to escape.

Most vampires hold back somewhat when fighting humans, as they plan to keep them alive and feed from them later, but Flandle was always fed prepared dishes and doesn't know her food comes from humans. Thus, when fighting them, she doesn't hesitate and incinerates them without a second thought.

Letty Whiterock (レティ・ホワイトロック Reti Howaitorokku)
Species : Yōkai
Ability : Manipulation of the cold

A yōkai who only appears during winter. In her own words, spring is for hibernation, summer is for sleeping, and autumn is for napping, thus winter is her only time for activity. She enjoys herself in the extended winter, and thus gets in the protagonists' way as they seek to end it; however, she seems to accept the fact that winter must end someday, and doesn't attack them seriously.



Chen (橙
Species : Shikigami (Nekomata)
Ability : Sorcery
Residence : Mayoiga

She is a nekomata who was made Ran's shikigami, which makes her a shikigami of a shikigami. She is able to summon powerful oni, but her powers are somewhat limited because of her secondary status. As a cat, she is afraid of the water and cuddles in a kotatsu during winter. She is often depicted as a childish catgirl.




Alice Margatroid (アリス・マーガトロイド Arisu Māgatoroido)
Species : Magician
Ability : Magic, especially puppetry
Residence : Forest of Magic

Alice, however, is quite different in personality. She is aloof, rarely caring much about others and often attacking them for her own amusement. However, Immaterial and Missing Power states that she is actually a coward at heart, which made her into the most abused character in doujin; there she is a fragile and oversensitive girl who desperately seeks Marisa's affection, nearly the inverse of her in-game character.

Though she still carries the grimoire around, Alice now manipulates dolls to create her danmaku, and is perhaps the most skilled puppeteer in Gensokyo. Of special note is a doll named Shanghai, who is the most prominently featured doll among the games and derivative fanworks.



Lily White (リリーホワイト Rirī Howaito) Alternate spelling Lilywhite
Species : Fairy
Ability : Reporting spring's approach.

A fairy that heralds the arrival of spring. However, since she expresses herself with danmaku rather than words, her announcement is usually seen as a hostile attack.



Prismriver Sisters (プリズムリバー三姉妹 Purizumuribā San-shimai)
Species : Poltergeists
Ability : Playing musical instruments without physical contact
Residence : Poltergeist Mansion

They are poltergeists in the shape of three sisters. They were originally daughters of a human noble, but an unfortunate event caused his four daughters to separate. The fourth daughter, Layla Prismriver, was unable to leave the mansion that held so many of her memories. Using her power, she conjured poltergeists with the appearance of her older sisters, then slowly became forgotten along with the mansion and the poltergeists.


-Lunasa Prismriver (ルナサ・プリズムリバー Runasa Purizumuribā
Ability : Playing notes of melancholy

The eldest of the Prismriver Sisters. She plays the violin and prefers solo performances. Honest to a fault, she is perhaps the most well-adjusted of the sisters.

-Merlin Prismriver (メルラン・プリズムリバー Meruran Purizumuribā
Ability : Playing notes of excitement

The middle child of the Prismriver Sisters. She plays the trumpet. Her magic is the strongest of the three sisters, but her technique is not very good. Despite this, she is cheerful and tends to obsess over things.

-Lyrica Prismriver (リリカ・プリズムリバー Ririka Purizumuribā
Ability : Playing notes of fantasia

The youngest of the poltergeist Prismriver Sisters. Although skilled with all instruments, she prefers keyboard and percussion. She is clever and manipulative, usually goading her older sisters into doing her fighting rather than engaging in battle herself.




Youmu Konpaku (魂魄 妖夢 Konpaku Yōmu)
Species : Half-human half-ghost
Ability : Swordsmanship
Residence : Hakugyokurō

Youmu is the gardener of the netherworld pagoda, Hakugyokurō. She comes from a very rare breed, the half-ghosts; in this strange combination, the human half and ghost half exist in physically separate bodies, but are always close by one another. Youmu is very young for a half-ghost, under 60 years; her exact age is unknown.

Despite this, she may be the most mature of all the main characters. She is straightforward, focused and loyal to her mistress, Yuyuko. It is only rarely that she lets a childish fear or urge show through. Paradoxically, she is afraid of ghosts (the imaginary sort.)





Yuyuko Saigyouzi (西行寺 幽々子 Saigyōji Yuyuko)Alternate spelling Yuyuko Saigyouji
Species : Ghost
Ability : Invoke death
Residence : Hakugyokurō

Yuyuko is the princess of the netherworld pagoda, Hakugyokurō. She is a ghost, but unlike most of her kind, looks entirely human. Living in the netherworld, she doesn't socialize much with the rest of Gensokyo. Her only friend from outside is Yukari. Her family name Saigyozi suggests relations with the famed poet Saigyo.

Yuyuko, at first appearance, is a ditz; her mental processes seem to be dedicated mainly to teasing her gardener and servant, Youmu, and anticipating her next meal. However, her usual manner conceals a sharp mind and an almost prenatural depth of insight. For instance, she was the only one to perceive what sort of being Fujiwara no Mokou was at first sight.




Ran Yakumo (八雲 藍 Yakumo Ran)
Species : Shikigami (Kitsune)
Ability : Control shikigami
Residence : The boundaries of Gensokyo

A nine-tailed fox yōkai whom Yukari Yakumo made her shikigami. She is considerably powerful even without her master's support; among other things, she uses this power to maintain her own shikigami, Chen. Since Yukari sleeps twelve hours a day, she handles the work during these times. (In doujin she is often depicted as a harassed servant, doing all the work for her lazy master.)




Yukari Yakumo (八雲 紫 Yakumo Yukari)
Species : Yōkai
Ability : Manipulation of boundaries
Residence : The boundaries of Gensokyo

Yukari is an elder yōkai who dwells on the border of Gensokyo, and may predate the existence of the realm itself. A good friend of Yuyuko's and an acquaintance of Reimu's. She is the self-appointed stewardess of the seal between Gensokyo and the outside world, but doesn't do a particularly good job of it...

Most of the time, she is asleep, leaving all the work to her shikigami Ran and Ran's shikigami Chen. When she isn't, she tends to amuse herself by pulling in unprepared humans from the outside world and stranding them in Gensokyo. A very irresponsible yōkai.

Suika Ibuki (伊吹 萃香 Ibuki Suika)
Species : Oni
Ability : Manipulation of density
Residence : Yōkai Mountain

A girl who insists that she is an oni, even though Gensokyo doesn't have any, supposedly. As an oni, she loves drinks, feasts, and competition. Despite her small size, she is strong in strength, speed, and mystic powers; she is also several hundred years old. Using her ability to control density, she can gather people to form a banquet, or she can scatter herself to become mist.

Wriggle Nightbug (リグル・ナイトバグ Riguru Naitobagu)
Species : Yōkai firefly
Ability : Manipulation of insects
Residence : Various thickets

Insects collect around her, and so she often can be seen in the middle of a swarm of insects. With her powers, she can manipulate the flickerings of fireflies with timed synchronicity, or summon swarms of poisonous insects to kill an enemy. Like insects, she is afraid of pesticides and the cold.




Mystia Lorelei (ミスティア・ローレライ Misutia Rōrerai)
Species : Night sparrow
Ability : Drive humans berserk by singing
Residence : Road of Monsters

A night sparrow that dwells on a road near a human village. She conceals herself by blinding travelers who walk along the road at night, then lures them astray, upon which they disappear without a trace. She is carefree, innocent and loves to sing- considering her nightly activities nothing more than a game.

An incident in Imperishable Night in which she was apparently eaten by Yuyuko made her a popular joke character. However, she returned in Phantasmagoria of Flower View.




Keine Kamishirasawa (上白沢 慧音 Kamishirasawa Keine)
Species : Were-hakutaku
Ability : Consume, conceal, and create history
Residence : Human Village

Although half-human and half-beast, she appears perfectly human except during the full moon, when she grows horns. She was not born with therianthropy, and only became a were-hakutaku due to an unknown incident. She loves humans, and considers it her duty to protect the human village, by consuming the village's history to hide it when malicious youkai pass by; her special ability. However, she is trigger-happy and sometimes mistakes ordinary travelers for such malicious yōkai.

Keine opened a terakoya in the village and spends her time teaching children and compling historical records. She seems to have a special relationship with Huziwara no Mokou.



Tewi Inaba (因幡 てゐ Inaba Tei) Alternate spelling Tei Inaba
Species : Yōkai rabbit
Ability : Bring fortune to humans
Residence : Eientei

Based upon the "White Hare of Inaba" story of the Kojiki, she evolved into a yokai from a rabbit due to her longevity. She is the leader of the earthly bunnies of the Eientei, despite her deceitful personality. She is also a lucky charm — humans who get lost in the forest can always depend on her fortune to find their way, though the humans often don't realize they could've used her fortune for greater things. On the scale of luckiness, hers is worth 40 four-leaf clovers.



Reisen Udongein Inaba (鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ
Species : Moon rabbit
Ability : Manipulation of lunacy
Residence : Eientei

A moon rabbit, she came to Gensokyo about 30 years ago to escape a war between the Earth and the Moon. Since then, she has been an apprentice to Eirin, a pet to Kaguya, and a caretaker to Tewi. She has the power to drive people mad with her eyes — mainly in the form of hallucinations — as well as communicate telepathically with her kind. She also has control over waves of all kinds, such as light waves, brainwaves, and electromagnetic waves. "Udongein" and "Inaba" are both nicknames, the first given her by Eirin and the second Kaguya; the latter is what Kaguya calls all rabbits.



Eirin Yagokoro (八意 永琳 Yagokoro Eirin)
Species : Human (Lunarian)
Ability : Creation of any medicine, natural genius
Residence : Eientei

A genius pharmacist who once lived on the moon. Kaguya persuaded her to produce the forbidden Hourai Elixir — the elixir of life — and consumed it. They were found out, and Kaguya alone was punished and was sent to the Earth, a fact which Eirin always felt guilty about. Some time later, the moon court pardoned Kaguya's sins and summoned her back. Eirin and a handful of emissaries were sent to retrieve her, but Eirin found out that Kaguya didn't want to return to the moon. Acting out of her past guilt, Eirin betrayed and murdered all the other emissaries under the eyes of the earthlings who had fostered Kaguya. Eirin bribed the earthlings with the Hourai Elixir, in order to keep them silent, and went into hiding with Kaguya in Gensokyo.



Kaguya Houraisan (蓬萊山 輝夜 Hōraisan Kaguya)
Species : Human (Lunarian)
Ability : Manipulation of eternity and temporality
Residence : Eientei

Kaguya is actually the Princess Kaguya from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. A princess of the moon, after consuming the forbidden Hourai Elixir and becoming immortal, she was punished by being exiled to live on the Earth. Later, she was pardoned and ordered to return to the moon. However, she preferred her common life on Earth to that as a princess on the moon. Eirin helped her escape the emissaries, and the two went into hiding in Gensokyo.

Recently, she has been selling Yagokoro medicine and hosting exhibitions showing various items from the moon.



Huziwara no Mokou (藤原 妹紅 Fujiwara no MokōAlternate spelling Fujiwara no Mokou
Species : Human
Ability : Eternal youth and immortality
Residence : Bamboo Forest of Lost

Mokou was the daughter of a nobleman (assumed to be Fujiwara no Fuhito), one of Kaguya's suitors during her initial exile on Earth. When he was humiliated by Kaguya's impossible request, Mokou came to hate her. She wanted to take revenge, but Kaguya disappeared before she was able, so she consoled herself by stealing the Hourai Elixir that Eirin had bribed the other humans with, and drinking it to become immortal.

No longer able to fit into human society, she lived as a wanderer and eventually found her way to Gensokyo. There, she was amazed to find that Kaguya was also a fugitive. The two still detest each other, killing one another and reincarnating in a daily ritual. However, Mokou is ecstatic that her eternal enemy is a fugitive like her, and that one who can never die is not such an unspeakable abomination in Gensokyo (though she still leads a solitary life.) Indeed, she has found her paradise.

Aya Syameimaru (射命丸 文 Shameimaru Aya)Alternate spelling Aya Shameimaru
Species : Crow tengu
Ability : Manipulation of wind
Residence : Yōkai Mountain


She has a serious character, at odds with her reporting; she loves rumors and her newspaper is filled with gossip about the girls of Gensokyo, sometimes on the verge of being a tabloid. To Reimu's irritation, however, she rejects the stories of a certain miko saving Gensōkyō as unverifiable. Not one to show off, she rarely fights of her own volition, though she has contempt for those she thinks are weak.




Medicine Melancholy (メディスン・メランコリー Medisun Merankorī Alternate spelling Medicin Melancory
Species : Doll
Ability : Manipulation of poison
Residence : Nameless Hill

An abandoned doll who turned into a yōkai after years of exposure to the poisonous lily-of-the-valleys. She advocates for doll emancipation (despite the fact that she's the only one capable of free will) and dislikes humans because of their manipulation of dolls. For this, Sikieiki judged her to be "too narrow in outlook". Perhaps affected by this statement, she made friends with Eirin Yagokoro, though she still wishes for the liberation of dolls. Her name may originate from A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury.



Yuka Kazami (風見 幽香 Kazami Yūka)
Species : Yōkai
Ability : Manipulation of flowers
Residence : Garden of the Sun

She loves seasonal flowers, so throughout the year she moves to the respective places where the flowers grow. She has lived long enough to witness several major flower-blooming outbreaks, an event that only occurs once every sixty years, leading Sikieiki to comment that she "had lived a little too long".




Komachi Onozuka (小野塚 小町 Onozuka Komachi)
Species : Shinigami
Ability : Manipulation of distance
Residence : Sanzu River

A shinigami who provides passage across the Sanzu River, Komachi has a role akin to that of Charon of Greek mythology. Despite her rather important job, she doesn't always take it seriously and ends up being scolded by her boss, Sikieiki Yamaxanadu. Her name is thought to have originated from the famed beauty Ono no Komachi.



Sikieiki Yamaxanadu (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ Shikieiki Yamazanadu) Alternate spelling Shikieiki Yamaxanadu
Species : Yama
Ability : Judge clearly as black and white
Residence : Higan

Sikieiki is one of the judges of the underworld. It is her job to judge the deceased and decide whether they get sent to Heaven or Hell, or somewhere else. As a part of her job, she can be rather moralistic and would go on and on on her lectures on morals. The "Yamaxanadu" part of her name is actually her title, a combination of her status as "Yama" and "Xanadu", the place she is in charge of.

Shizuha Aki (秋 静葉 Aki Shizuha)
Species : God of red leaves
Ability : Manipulation of red leaves
Location : Foot of the Yōkai Mountain

She and her younger sister Minoriko control the season of autumn together. Of the opinion that red leaves are the best part of autumn, she feels tremendously proud when showing the beauty of her leaves to Minoriko. Disappears when winter comes.



Minoriko Aki (秋 穣子 Aki Minoriko)
Species : God of abundance
Ability : Manipulation of abundance
Location : Foot of the Yōkai Mountain

Stage 1 boss and the younger sister of Shizuha. As a harvest goddess, she is invited as a special guest to the harvest festival in the Human Village every year. If she isn't invited then a good harvest cannot be guaranteed for that year. The fragrance of the harvest is her perfume, and with it she feels superior to her elder sister . Like her sister, she disappears when winter comes.



Hina Kagiyama (鍵山 雛 Kagiyama Hina)
Species : Curse god
Ability : Storing curses
Location : Yōkai Sea of Trees

Hina is the head of the Nagashihina army, where Nagashihina refers to the dolls being drifted down the river in a ritual to cast away one's sins and misfortunes. As such, Hina is surrounded by curses and those who encounter her will run into misfortune. Despite this, Hina has good intentions and does not wish to have misfortune befall humans again. She is often spinning and her attacks are characterized as spirals.



Nitori Kawashiro (河城 にとり Kawashiro Nitori)
Species : Kappa
Ability : Manipulation of Water
Location : Untrodden Valley

An engineer with an interest in humans, she believes that the kappa and the humans were ancient allies. The kappa of the Touhou universe are described as a race with advanced technology, demonstrated when the shy Nitori uses optical camouflage to conceal herself from the humans. As an engineer, she likes to take things apart and reassemble them again, so her clothes are packed with tools for this purpose.



Momizi Inubashiri (犬走 椛 Inubashiri Momiji)
Species : White wolf tengu
Ability : Seeing great distances
Location : Waterfall of Nine Heavens

A loyal tengu who patrols the Yōkai Mountain and can see great distances. She attempts to scare intruders off with simple attacks before reporting them to her superiors. When not on duty, she plays dai shogi with the kappa who live nearby. During the events of Mountain of Faith, she failed to scare Reimu and Marisa away, so she was assigned under Aya Syameimaru to continue surveillance on the intruders. Her report led to the peaceful resolution of the tension between the tengu and the Moriya Shrine.



Sanae Kotiya (東風谷 早苗 Kochiya Sanae)
Species : Human
Ability : Power to work miracles
Location : Moriya Shrine

Though she is human, she is Suwako's descendant and has the power to create miracles due to her divine blood. In the past, people began to worship her as a living god due to these miracles, despite the fact that she was the priestess of another god and most of the miracles were her god's. As the outside world changed, though, faith in both Sanae and her god Kanako declined and they chose to move their shrine to Gensokyo.

Wanting to gather the faith of Gensokyo's residents, she threatened to close down the Hakurei Shrine, which resulted in a resounding defeat for her and her gods. It was then she understood that she is no longer a living god in this land of miracles, but only a normal human being.



Kanako Yasaka (八坂 神奈子 Yasaka Kanako)
Species : God
Ability : Power to create qian
Location : Wind God's Lake

A goddess of wind and rain who inhibits the Moriya Shrine, she is based on the Japanese god Takeminakata. As faith in gods in the outside world declined, she decided to move the Moriya Shrine to Gensokyo's Yōkai Mountain, rather than simply be forgotten and fade away. She quickly acquired faith from the youkai on the mountain — though some would just call it friendship. To acquire the faith of the humans and youkai living elsewhere in Gensokyo as well, she sent her priestess Sanae to the Hakurei Shrine. She wears a snake-patterned shimenawa as her trademark, symbolizing her victory over Suwako long ago.



Suwako Moriya (洩矢 諏訪子 Moriya Suwako)
Species : God
Ability : Power to create kun
Location : Moriya Shrine

She is the true goddess of the Moriya Shrine, who long ago defeated the terrifying curse god Mishaguji to become a beloved goddess and ruler. In turn, she was later defeated by Kanako, but the people of her kingdom still feared Mishaguji and would not accept Kanako as their new goddess. The two created a false god, "Moriya", from which they could both gather faith. Already long forgotten in the outside world, Suwako was untroubled as her faith slowly declined, but accompanied Kanako to Gensokyo nonetheless - despite their history, and their frequent disagreements, the two are good friends.

Iku Nagae (永江 衣玖(ながえ　いく)
Species : Yōkai
Ability : Able to read the atmosphere
Location : Clouds over Gensokyo

Tenshi Hinanai (比那名居　天子(ひななゐ　てんし)
Species : Celestial
Ability : Manipulation of land
Location : Heaven

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 in the Forest of Magic. 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.



Tokiko (朱鷺子, also known as unnamed book-reading youkai (名無し本読み妖怪 Nanashi hon-yomi yōkai)
Species : Yōkai
Ability : Unknown
Residence : Unknown

Tokiko is a minor youkai 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; Thus the fans gave her the name "Tokiko", which means Crested Ibis, because Tokiko has red wings similar to those of the bird.



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."



Maribel Hearn (マエリベリー・ハーン Maeriberī Hān)
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's merely dreaming and gets herself into dangerous situations.



Sunny Milk (サニーミルク Sanīmiruku)Alternate spelling Sunnymilk
Species : Fairy
Ability : Control refractions of light
Residence : Forest of Magic

A cheerful fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Sunny" by her accomplices. She manipulates the power of the sun, and considers herself the smartest of the three, though she fails most often of the three.



Luna Child (ルナチャイルド Runachairudo) Alternate spelling Lunarchild
Species : Fairy
Ability : Silence nearby sounds
Residence : Forest of Magic

A fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Luna" by her accomplices. Her power comes from the moon, and she can use it to silence the sounds around her. She seems to be the most cruel of the three.



Star Sapphire (スターサファイア Sutāsafaia) Alternate spelling Starsaphire
Species : Fairy
Ability : Sense animate objects from far away
Residence : Forest of Magic

A fairy who likes to play pranks, often called "Star" by her accomplices and "Saphi" by the fans. Unlike the other two, her power does not wax and wane with the time of day. In reality, she seems to be the smartest of the three, and often escapes punishment while the other two are caught.



Hieda no Akyu (稗田 阿求 Hieda no Akyū
Species : Human
Ability : Never forgets anything she sees
Residence : Human Village

She is current 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.



Reisen (レイセン
Species : Moon rabbit
Residence : Capital of the Moon

A moon rabbit (not related to Reisen Udongein Inaba) 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.



Watatsuki no Toyohime (綿月 豊姫
Species : Lunarian
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 harbour no ill feelings toward the exiled Lunarians in Eientei.



Watatsuki no Yorihime (綿月 依姫
Species : Lunarian
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.