Byakuren Hijiri

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Byakuren Hijiri (聖　白蓮, Hijiri Byakuren) ist eine buddhistische Nonne und Magierin, welche von Menschen aufgrund ihrer Freundlichkeit den Youkai gegenüber in die Außenwelt versiegelt wurde. Während den Events von Undefined Fantastic Object erschienen die von ihr geretteten Youkai wieder, um sie von dem Siegel zu befreien. Sie ist jetzt die Oberpriesterin des Myouren Tempels, welcher unter den Youkai sehr berühmt ist.

聖 (ひじり) 　白蓮 (びゃくれん) Byakuren Hijiri çid͡ʑiɽʲi bʲakɯɽeɴ (♫) Byakuren Hiziri
Byakuren Hijiri in Urban Legend in Limbo The Sealed Great Magician
Spezies	Magier (früher Mensch)
Fähigkeiten	Magie (Spezialisiert auf Magie, die körperliche Fähigkeiten erhöht)
Tätigkeit	Mönch
Auftritte	Offizielle Spiele: Undefined Fantastic Object (Cover, Stage 6 Boss) Double Spoiler (Szene 12-1, 12-3, 12-5, 12-7 Boss) Hopeless Masquerade (Spielbarer Charakter, möglicher Gegenspieler, Assistent des finalen Bosses in Kokoros Szenario) Impossible Spell Card (10. Tag Boss) Urban Legend in Limbo (Spielbarer Charakter, möglicher Gegner) Literatur: Oriental Sacred Place (Kapitel 12 cameo) Wild and Horned Hermit (Kapitel 18, Kapitel 19 cameo, 27 cameo) Symposium of Post-mysticism‎ (Hauptcharakter) Forbidden Scrollery (Volume 1 omake, Kapitel 10, 11 cameo, 16)
Musik	感情の摩天楼　～ Cosmic Mind Emotional Skyscraper ~ Cosmic Mind (Undefined Fantastic Object, Hopeless Masquerade)

Allgemeines

Byakuren tauchte zuerst als Endgegner in Undefined Fantastic Object auf und später in Hopeless Masquerade als spielbarer Charakter. Sie was ein Ziel für Stage 12 von Double Spoiler und den letzten Tag von Impossible Spell Card. Später trat sie in Urban Legend in Limbo nochmal als spielbarer Charakter auf.

Persönlichkeit

Byakuren ist ein Mönch und sowohl Menschen, als auch Youkai freundlich gesinnt. Jedoch ist es schwierig für sie sich mit Menschen wegen ihrer Sichtweise anzufreunden ebenso wie der Fakt, dass sie keinen Alkohol trinkt und Vegetarierin ist. Sie ist sanftmütig und hat sich noch nie wütend gezeigt. Youkai, die keinen Streit, suchen kommen in Scharen zu ihr, während die angriffslustigen von ihr abgewiesen werden.

Fähigkeiten

Using magic

Originally derived from Buddhism, Byakuren then began using dark magic derived from aiding youkai to retain her youth, after her brother's death. Now, Byakuren specializes in "buffing" magic which increases her physical abilities, body, including strength, speed, and the five senses. Normally, however, she's only as strong as an average human. Ultimately, though she is called a saint, these powers are demonic in nature. In the game, since there was a spell card Superhuman "Byakuren Hijiri", it seems that she indeed used this magic to strengthen her physical abilities. During this spell, Byakuren's movement speed goes fast to such an extent that she can even outrun Fantasy Seal.

Tätigkeit

Byakuren is the chief priest at the Myouren Temple, where her main goal is to bring peace to both humans and youkai. As the chief priest, she teaches the dharma to anyone willing to listen. She also manages funerals and the graveyard. Once a month, she performs an "overnight sutra-chanting live concert", where she sings a song in monotone while keeping rhythm with a wooden fish. The event attracts both youkai and humans.

Besitz

Sorcerer's Sutra Scroll

Created while Byakuren was in Makai, the Sorcerer's Sutra Scroll is unique to her. The sutras Byakuren needs in order to use her power are written on it. It has an automatic mode, which will cause it to recite spells on its own. Compared to a regular paper scroll, the amount the Sorcerer's Sutra Scroll holds is limitless. It is also said that this scroll won't deteriorate over time. Lastly, because it has a "will" of its own; no one except for Byakuren is able to handle it.

Vergangenheit

Once a human, Byakuren was a nun who worked with her younger brother, Myouren Hijiri. However, when her brother died, she began to fear death. This fear prompted her to search for some way to maintain her youth. Eventually she did find it; however, its origin was not in the Buddhist art she had dedicated her life to, but rather a kind of black magic.

No longer fully "human", she soon came to fear losing her power. Because of the nature of the world of Gensokyo, the magic that she wielded would only be lost if humanity came to reject it as a whole; and because of that, she needed to ensure the prosperity and longevity of youkai. Thus, she came to honor and protect the youkai for her own benefit while simultaneously making herself out to be a great youkai exterminator. People came to look up to her and started fearing the youkai less and less. However, after some time, Byakuren started to realize the struggle youkai faced in the outside world. Eventually, rather than protecting them out of her own selfishness, she began to honestly consider the youkai as beings that needed to be helped.

At one time, Byakuren was sent to exterminate the ghost on the seas, Minamitsu Murasa, who had gained much renown for sinking ships. Rather than vanquish Murasa as she had been sent to do, Byakuren confronted the spirit as a normal human, and Murasa easily capsized her ship. However, Byakuren rose from the sea, riding atop a shining ship like the one Murasa had fallen from. By granting Murasa this ship, she freed the spirit from the cursed oceans and earned her gratitude.

At some point she also welcomed Ichirin Kumoi and her nyuudou companion Unzan, gaining their trust as well. The two of them lived at her temple.

The temple that she lived in was in the mountains; a temple to the god Bishamonten. In order to gain the trust of the youkai living on the mountain, she decided to appoint a youkai to serve under the god. This youkai was Shou Toramaru. Shou excelled at her duties, and it is implied that in doing so, Byakuren came to be liked by the youkai living around the area.

Eventually, her desire to help youkai rather than exterminate them was exposed to humans such as with her encounter with Murasa. She was ostracized for being a "demon in human form", and eventually was sealed away into the depths of Makai, for ever locked in Hokkai.

Konzept

Byakuren, as she appears in Symposium of Post-mysticism‎.

Myouren Hijiri, Byakuren's younger brother, was a real Buddhist priest born in Shinano Province, which is ZUN's hometown, and trained at Chougosonshi Temple (朝護孫子寺) on Mount Shigi (信貴山). He appears in several stories, but the most significant one is Shigisan Engi, which is one of the most popular emakimono. In its third volume, there is an unnamed Buddhist priestess who wants to meet Myouren, who is her younger brother. She is the inspiration for Byakuren. The priestess is looking for Myouren because she is worried about him not coming back, so she stays at Toudaiji, where Myouren had made the vows for priesthood. Daibutsu tells her in a dream that there is a purple cloud over the side of the mountain southwest from where she is. She goes there the next morning, and finally she is able to meet and live together with him.

Name

Byakuren Hijiri (聖　白蓮) is her name. Hijiri (聖) can mean "Saint", "Virtuous Monk" or "Itinerant Monk" whilst Byakuren (白蓮) can mean "White Lotus" or "Purity". So it literally can be read as "Saint of the White Lotus" or "White Lotus Saint"; drawing upon the cultural reading of the white lotus as a symbol of purity – "Pure and Saintly" or "Saint of Purity". It may also be drawing upon the modern definition of Hijiri (聖, meaning a world-trekking Buddhist monk) – "Roaming Monk of the White Lotus" or "The Pure and Itinerant Monk".

Aussehen

In Undefined Fantastic Object's official art, Byakuren has long, wavy, light brown hair that fades to purple at the top, with hazel or light brown eyes. She wears a black and white dress with long strips of black fabric going across the middle and white fabric across the arms. Along with this dress, she wears a long cape. She also holds a giant, magical scroll called the Sorcerer's Sutra Scroll.

The gradient in her hair has been confirmed by ZUN to be a natural colour.

Story

Undefined Fantastic Object

Byakuren's sprite in UFO

In Undefined Fantastic Object, she is unsealed thanks to the combined efforts of Shou Toramaru's group of youkai and the heroine. Her fate depends on which heroine is chosen by the player, but in canon, she settles down near the Human Village with the intentions of building a temple there. By Sanae Kochiya's request – the shrine maiden had vouched for Byakuren's character – Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya constructed it for her relatively quickly.

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Impossible Spell Card

Hauptartikel: Impossible Spell Card: Story

After apparently reading the newspaper by the tengu about a mischief-making amanojaku, she becomes one of the many strong youkai and humans to try and stop Seija Kijin in the final day. She uses spell cards that are considered impossible to dodge.

Beziehungen

Being the final boss of Undefined Fantastic Object, Byakuren serves as the common ground for the character relationships.

Ichirin Kumoi

Ichirin Kumoi is a youkai who used to live at Byakuren's temple hundreds of years ago. By showing kindness to both her and Unzan, even though she was human, she earned their trust.

Minamitsu Murasa

Byakuren saved Minamitsu Murasa from her grim fate of haunting the oceans and capsizing ships. Minamitsu became one of Byakuren's strongest allies, and she used the flying object in Gensokyo to retrieve the treasures needed to revive the nun.

Shou Toramaru

Shou Toramaru was a disciple of Bishamonten that lived at Byakuren's temple. Byakuren had used her to gain more trust from the other youkai living on the mountain at the time, and in order to show her kindness towards youkai.

Nue Houjuu & Mamizou Futatsuiwa

It is also known from both Touhou Hisoutensoku and Oriental Sacred Place that Nue Houjuu is currently living at the temple she built. Nue, after learning from the heroine during the extra stage of Undefined Fantastic Object of Byakuren's kindness to all beings, including youkai like her, went there, most likely after a bit of time had passed and nervous because she was attempting to ruin the plans to unseal the nun in the first place. Also, Nue calls in her friend Mamizou Futatsuiwa from the outside world to become a youkai ally. After being suggested by Youmu Konpaku in her respective Extra stage, she decides to take up residence at Myouren Temple with Nue.

Myouren Hijiri

She also had a brother named Myouren Hijiri. However, her brother eventually died.

Kyouko Kasodani

Kyouko cleans the Myouren Temple.

Toyosatomimi no Miko & Seiga Kaku

Miko targets Byakuren. While they have not been seen interacting, Byakuren is highly disturbed by Seiga's activities and claims that she can sense great evil from her.

Koishi Komeiji

Byakuren believes that Koishi's present "thoughtless" state is close to enlightenment, and wants her to join the temple.

Hata no Kokoro

During the events of Hopeless Masquerade, Kokoro stays at Myouren Temple in order to learn how to control her emotions in order to prevent another berserk at the end of Byakuren's storyline.

Gallerie

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  Cover of Undefined Fantastic Object, featuring Byakuren's silhouette.
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  Illustration of Byakuren in Symposium of Post-mysticism
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  Byakuren in SoPm
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  Byakuren with Miko & Marisa in SoPm

Skills

Name	Übersetzung	Anmerkung	Spiele	Stage

Spell Cards

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Trivia

• The silhouette of Byakuren occupies the front of Undefined Fantastic Object's jewel case.
• Byakuren was one of the candidates for the extra boss of Ten Desires, along with Kasen Ibaraki.
• Written in ZUN's hand on her final cut-in is Namusan! (南無三！), which is short for Namu Sanbou (南無三宝) - roughly, "Hail to the three treasures of Buddhism" (the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). It's used to request salvation in a moment of danger. Byakuren also uses this term at the very end of her dialogue with the heroine.
• Byakuren appears on the cover of the Undefined Fantastic Object case.
• During her second-to-last (fourth) spell card on Easy, the stars under the health bar show she has two lives left. She does, but only on higher difficulties.
  • The same spell card looks like one of Shinki's attack patterns.
• Byakuren's Lotus Butterfly seems to act similar in appearance (and in two or three attack patterns) to YuugenMagan.
• In Undefined Fantastic Object, the player can touch Byakuren and not lose a life, but only during specific times. This may likely to be a glitch.
• In Oriental Sacred Place chapter 12, Byakuren's hair is lighter on the top and gets darker towards the bottom.
• With Miko's appearance and revealed conflict with Byakuren with their use of Buddhism they show signs of being a reference to Hokuto No Ken where Byakuren is Toki, a peace loving pacifist that wants only to help people and hates violence when it can be avoided, Miko is Raoh in this case.

Fandom

Hauptartikel: Fandom: Byakuren Hijiri

Offizielle Profile

Undefined Fantastic Object - Settings and Extra Story.txt

	○６面ボス　　封印された大魔法使い 　　聖 白蓮（ひじり びゃくれん） 　　Hiziri Byakuren 　　種族：魔法使い 　　能力：魔法を使う程度の能力（身体能力を上げる魔法を得意とする） 　　白蓮の弟、命蓮は伝説の僧侶であった。 　　軽々と鉢を飛ばしたかと思うと、その鉢でごうつくばりな長者の倉を持っていったり、離れた場所にいる人間の病気を治したりしていた。 　　白蓮は、年老いてからその弟に法力を学んだ。 　　普段は命蓮の法力が詰まった飛倉（とびくら）に暮らし、自然と力を身に付けた。 　　しかし、命蓮は白蓮よりも早く亡くなってしまった。 　　嘆き悲しんだ白蓮は、死を極端に怖れるようになった。 　　まず、自分が死なない為に若返りの力を手に入れた。それは法術と言うより妖術、魔術の類であった。 　　若返りを自分の物にし、寿命が亡くなった彼女が次に怖れたのはその力が失われる事だった。 　　妖術が失われる事、それは人間が完全に妖術を排除する事に他ならない。 　　つまり、妖怪が居なくなってしまったら、自分の力も維持できなくなるのだ。 　　彼女は妖怪を敬った。 　　表では妖怪退治を依頼されても、裏では妖怪を助けていた。 　　彼女は妖怪を敬ったが、それは人間と敵対する為ではない。 　　最初は自分の欲の為であったが、妖怪達の不憫な過去を知り次第に力にならないといけないと思うようになったのだ。 　　突然現れた若い僧侶。 　　若さと法力を手に入れた彼女は、人間の人気者であった。 　　「白蓮が居れば、もう妖怪は怖くない。 　　　夜に怯えて暮す必要なんか無い」と。 　　そして、彼女の思いと人間達の期待とのギャップが、悲劇を生んだ。 　　「彼奴は人間の面をした悪魔である」と。 　　彼女は魔界に封印され、二度と人前に出てくる事は無かった。	○Stage 6 Boss　　The Sealed Great Magician Byakuren Hijiri Species: magician Ability: Using magic (specializing in magic that increases her physical abilities) Byakuren's sibling Myouren was a famous monk. Myouren's days were spent easily tossing around enormous pots that contained great storehouses and curing sick people's illnesses in remote places. Byakuren, getting along in years, learned Buddhist magic from Myouren. She normally lived on Tobikura, which was packed with Myouren's Buddhist power, and so naturally Byakuren gained power of her own. However, Myouren died before Byakuren. The bereaved Byakuren started to fear death greatly. She obtained the power to regain her youth, but rather than a Buddhist art, it was something more like black magic. After having mastered the power of youth and left behind a normal creature's lifespan, the next thing she came to fear was someday losing her power. The only way to lose that black art was for Humanity to reject it entirely. In other words, if youkai ceased to exist, she wouldn't be able to sustain her own power. And so, she honored youkai. She pretended to be a great youkai exterminator, but actually saved the youkai behind the scenes. She had great respect for youkai, but not because she disliked humans. In the beginning, it was born from her own greed, but as she learned of the difficult past the youkai had borne, she began to think she needed to do something to help them. This youthful monk who'd suddenly appeared... Her youth and her magic made her extremely popular among humans. "As long as Byakuren is here, we don't have to fear youkai anymore. We don't need to live in fear of the night anymore." And so the gap between her wishes and the expectations gave birth to a terrible tragedy. People began to call her a demon in human form. She was sealed away in Makai, never to appear before humans again.

Hopeless Masquerade official website

	霊長類を越えた阿闍梨　聖白蓮 命蓮寺は人で賑わっていた。 しかし、皆の目的は仏の教えを受ける事では無 かった。 道徳が廃れ、世は、大騒ぎして派手に目立った者こそが 正義という末法の世界。 彼女は”力も方便”とばかり派手な闘いに出る。 特技　超人の血統 必殺技を出す前に詠唱が必要という特徴があります。 一度必殺技を入力すると使用回数をチャージする詠唱を行い、 再び同じ必殺技を入力することで 使用回数を消費して必殺技を使用します。 使用回数は必殺技ごとに個別で、 他の必殺技を使うときは改めて詠唱が必要です。 詠唱のために必殺技の使い分けが難しい代わりに、 必殺技自体が強力なものになっています。 ラストワード　アーンギラサヴェーダ 突進で相手を弾き飛ばし、レーザーの集中照射で 焼き払う連続攻撃を仕掛けます。 超高速突進は相手の弾幕をすり抜け、 離れた相手も瞬時に捕まえます。 強力なプレッシャーと心をへし折るほどの高い威力を持つ、 まさしく超人の本領発揮です。	The Ācārya who Surpassed Primates, Hijiri Byakuren The Myouren Temple was bustling with people. But their goal wasn't to receive the teachings of the Buddha. They were those who strayed from morality, who stood out gaudily, causing a huge ruckus, who were called "justice", in this world without rules. Repeating "power is a means, not an end", she enters the gaudy battle. Special skill: Lineage of the Superhuman Before activating a special attack, Byakuren must first recite a chant. When you input a special attack once, she performs a chant that charges the amount of times she can use it, and inputting the same special attack again consumes the charge and uses the special attack. The number of charges for each special attack differs, and if you want to use a different special attack, she must recite a new chant first. In exchange for her chanting making special attacks hard to distinguish, the special attacks themselves are more powerful. Last Word: Atharsaveda Byakuren charges forward and knocks her opponent back, and using concentrated laser fire she performs a series of burning attacks. Her high-speed charge grazes the opponent's bullets, so she can catch opponents that are far away. Possessing strong pressure and high enough power to break your spirit, it is truly a show of the greatest superpower.

Urban Legend in Limbo official website

	オカルト名　「ターボババァ」 格闘戦は信仰の基本とばかりの近接戦と 接近手段への特化キャラ。 詠唱というシステムがあり、 必殺技の使用にワンクッション必要なハンデがあるが 今作では詠唱さえすれば使う必殺技の選択は自由に なったり、長時間の詠唱で複数回のストックが可能に なるなどの変化があります。 オカルトアタック「シルバースカイウェイ」で 自在に空を駆け巡ろう

Offizielle Ressourcen

• 2009/08/15 Undefined Fantastic Object - Stage 6 dialogue; various stage dialogue; all endings; Settings and Extra Story.txt (official profile)
• 2009/08/15 Touhou Hisoutensoku - Reimu's VS dialogue with Marisa
• 2010/03/14 Double Spoiler - Stage 12 spellcard comments
• 2010/12/25 Oriental Sacred Place - Chapter 12
• 2011/11/25 Ten Desires special and two-part interview with ZUN
• 2012/04/27 Symposium of Post-mysticism - Byakuren Hijiri
• 2013/05/26 Hopeless Masquerade