Perfect Memento: Rinnosuke's Store

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香霖堂	Kourindou
危険度：　低	Danger level: Low
遭遇する妖怪：　様々	Encounterable youkai: Several
人間の里から魔法の森方面へ向かっていくと、森の入り口に奇妙な建物が見えてくる。	If you go from the Human Village towards the Forest of Magic, you’ll see a strange building.
この建物は、外も中もよく判らない道具で埋められており、営業する気があるのか判らない程静かで暗い道具屋、香霖堂である。	This building is Kourindou: it is buried both on the inside and outside in items you can’t quite know what are, so quiet and gloomy that one can’t know if it’s really intended for business.
この店は幻想郷で唯一、外の世界の道具も、妖怪の道具も、冥界の道具も、魔法の道具も全て扱う道具屋である。	This is the sole shop in all Gensokyo that deals with outside world, youkai, netherworld and magic items.
ただ、外の世界の道具はこの店の店主ですら使い道が判らず、興味を惹く者は多いが大抵の物は売れていないと言う（＊６）。	However, not even the store owner knows how to use the outside world articles, and although there are many people interested in them, most of those items are not for sale (*6).
どの商品も値段が書かれてなく、欲しい商品があったら店主と交渉しないといけない。	None of the merchandise has price tags, so when there’s something you want, you will have to bargain with the store owner.
また、外の品は特に在庫が無い物が多く、一度逃したら次は何時入荷するか判らない。	And besides, outside items are frequently out of stock, so once they go you can’t know when another is going to arrive.
ただ、使い方が判らない為、結局売れていないと言う。	But then again, since their manner of use is not known, they end up not selling.
店主の森近霖之助は、ちょっと変わっていて、人間とも妖怪とも分け隔て無く接する事が出来る。	The owner, Rinnosuke Morichika, strangely doesn’t make any distinction between humans and youkai, dealing with both of them.
と言うのも、本人は人間と妖怪の中間くらいの人妖で、自分から人間を襲う事もなければ、妖怪から襲われる事も無いからである（＊７）。	And, in fact, he is a human-youkai half-breed himself. And even though he doesn’t attack humans, he is not attacked by youkai either (*7).
人間の里から香霖堂までの道のりは若干長く、妖怪も出やすい場所なので少々買い物に行き難いが、意外と面白い物が沢山あるだろう。	Even though the way from the Human Village to Kourindou is somewhat long, it’s a place where youkai are likely to show and overall difficult to go shopping there, one may find a lot of surprisingly interesting items there.
ただ、店主の話は適当に切り上げないと中々終わらない。	If you don’t cut short the owner’s rants though, he is likely to never stop.
＊６　実は店主が蒐集家で、大抵の品が売る気が無いと専らの噂。	6: The fact that the owner is a collector and is not interested in selling most of the items is entirely a rumor.
＊７　相手にしたくない性格だからかも知れない。	7: Maybe because they hate to face his personality.

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