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Keine Kamishirasawa

Keine Kamishirasawa

Name:

上白沢 慧音(かみしらさわ けいね)

Keine Kamishirasawa

Species:

Were-hakutaku

Abilities:

In human form, can consume (hide) history.

In hakutaku form, can create and change history.

Age:

Unknown

Occupation:

School teacher, Acts as guardian of the human village

Location:

The Human Village

Description:

  • (Touhou 8, human form) Brown eyes and long silver hair with blue highlights. Wears a hat that looks like some kind of building with a red ribbon on top and glyphs inscribed along its side. Her dress is dark blue with white short sleeves, and a red ribbon is tied to the bottom of the collar.
  • (Touhou 8, hakutaku form) Red eyes, long silver hair with green highlights, and horns. Her left horn is decorated with a red ribbon. Her dress is dark green with white short sleeves, and a red ribbon is tied to the bottom of the collar.

Relationships:

Appearances:

Titles:

See Character Titles

During Imperishable Night Keine, being sensitive to the moon herself, sensed the strange events that were occurring. As a safe guard she hid the village's history, making it as if there had never been a village there to begin with, so that the people there would be protected from any youkai. After being defeated Keine pointed the heroines toward the ones responsible for the fake moon in the sky. Later, during the Extra Stage, Keine acted as guardian of Fujiwara no Mokou.

Keine seems to have a strong desire to protect humans and would probably be the safest person in gensokyo for any human to be around.

Fun Facts

  • The characters for Kamishirasawa literally mean "Above the white swamp", and Keine something like "Wise sound." Also Kamishirasawa can be pronounced "ue-hakutaku" which definitely sounds close to "Were-Hakutaku"; this is probably a pun by ZUN.
  • Some members of the Touhou community have jested that Keine's hat resembles a bento box.
  • Keine is the owner, and history teacher of the Human Village's school.
  • In some fan works, Keine is referred to as a cow (complete with milk jokes), due to her appearance in hakutaku form.
  • Etymology of CAVED!!!!
    • The word horu in Japanese means to dig, but also to have gay sex (or something). A meme started on 2ch where when someone wrote something that contained the phrase "horu," they would be summarily raped by EX-Keine. Horu got transmogrified to caved!!!!!!!! in English translations, and so you get "I got CAVED by EX-Keine!!!!!!!!"

Official Profiles

Imperishable Night Demo - おまけ.txt

 ○上白沢 慧音(かみしらさわ けいね)

  三面ボス。半人半獣。
  歴史を食べる(隠す)程度の能力と、歴史を創る程度の能力を持つ。

  前者は人間の時で、後者は獣の時の能力である。
  普段は人間の姿だがその正体は、満月の時にあらゆる知識を持つといわれる
  ハクタクに変身するワーハクタクであるが、満月が無くなって消化不良気味。

  常に人間の味方で、幻想郷を妖怪達の手から守っている。
  彼女に幻想郷の歴史で判らない事は一つも無い。

Keine Kamishirasawa

Stage 3 boss. Half human, half beast. Has the ability to conceal/erase histories, or to create them.

The first two abilities belong to her human form, the last to her beast form. She's usually in her human form, so that is her "true form". She transforms into a hakutaku during the full moon, at which time all information is known to her. When the full moon disappears, she feels a little sick to her stomach.

Ever a friend of the humans, she protects them from Gensokyo's many youkai. There is not one thing about the history of Gensokyo that she does not know.


Imperishable Night - キャラ設定.txt

Keine Kamishirasawa

○3面ボス 歴史喰い

  上白沢 慧音(かみしらさわ けいね)

  Keine Kamishirasawa

  種族:ワーハクタク

  能力:歴史を食べる(隠す)程度の能力と、歴史を創る程度の能力。


  普段は人間だが、満月の夜には白沢(ハクタク)に変身するワーハク

  タクである。人間時は、歴史を喰う能力。白沢時は、幻想郷の全ての

  知識を持ち、歴史を創る程度の能力を持つ。


  今回の異変を見て、余りの強大な力を持つ相手だと思い、妖怪から人

  間を守るために、夜は人間の里を封鎖する事にした。


  歴史を喰う事で誰からも里を見えなくしたのである。


  本人は妖怪だが、人間が大好きで常に人間側に立っている。その能力

  も、人間の為になる事にしか使わない。

Stage 3 Boss, History Eater

Keine Kamishirasawa

Species: Were-hakutaku

Abilities: Able to conceal, erase and create histories

Keine looks like an ordinary human most of the time, but transforms into a hakutaku under the light of the full moon. In human form, she can only conceal histories, but in hakutaku form, she has full control over every aspect of Gensokyo's history and can create new histories at will.

When she first noticed an abnormality in the moon, she decided to seal a nearby Human Village during the night in order to protect it from youkai.

She devoured the village's history to make it invisible.

Although Keine is not human, she loves humans and always tries to help them. She only uses her ability when it would benefit humans.


Book Synopsis

Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red

Main article: Article and Interview: Keine

Not translated yet.

Perfect Memento in Strict Sense

Main article: Perfect Memento: Keine Kamishirasawa
  • Keine is the wisest of the half-beasts.
  • Upon seeing the full moon, she will transform into a hakutaku.
  • She was not born a were-hakutaku, though.
  • A hakutaku is a youkai which appears to virtuous rulers to guide them.
  • She can erase history while human and create history while a hakutaku.
  • The history of Gensokyo is that which is created by her. Things don't become history merely by happening, they must be made history.
  • This history is later passed on to the Hieda family.
  • Keine runs a school in the village. However, the village children think her lessons are boring.
  • She is edgy on the night of the full moon, since she has a lot of work to do.
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