Kanako Yasaka (八坂 神奈子 Yasaka Kanako) is the current goddess of the Moriya Shrine. She defeated the previous goddess, Suwako Moriya, in the Great Suwa War. She wants to collect a lot of faith, but since people in the human world no longer believe in gods, she has moved the shrine and Wind God's Lake to the top of Youkai Mountain in Gensokyo to gather faith from both the humans in the Human Village while working with the Tengu and Kappa. Kanako was the main baddie in Stage 6 and the midboss in Extra Stage in Mountain of Faith. She later became a character that players could choose to play in Sunken Fossil World. Personality Kanako is a woman who is very ambitious. She treats religion like a business and uses it to make money. She uses faith as a way to make money. She has a natural presence that can seem scary or suspicious at times, but she is also reliable. She is different from most gods because she does not follow tradition. She does not demand that people worship her in a formal way, and she supports science. It's a bit unusual for a god to be interested in science. She doesn't want to hurt humans, but like all gods, she might curse them if they are mean to her. She also seems a bit short-tempered, but she loves gifts. What they can do: The power to create something beautiful and wonderful. Kanako's ability specifically refers to the element of Qian (乾), the "sky" of Bagua in Taoist philosophy. Qian is associated with creation, leadership, being direct, reliability, and acting first rather than reacting to others. Suwako Moriya's ability to create Kun (earth) is linked to the opposite element. She is at least called "wind god", so it may be a power to manipulate wind, rain and weather. If Kanako was a god of agriculture, she could control the weather to make the soil plentiful. This would help people believe in her quickly and easily. In the book Symposium of Post-Mysticism, it says that this ability of hers is still very much a mystery. We don't know what kind of power this is because there is nothing that seems like a portrayal of this. It is probably a power that humans cannot imagine. Maybe the wind god affects the climate, which affects the air, which affects the sky. She has been seen changing the landscape with Suwako's help, digging holes to the underground and even building large structures. 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Backstory One of the gods of Yamato (the precursor of the modern Japanese state), Kanako took over the kingdom ruled by the native goddess Suwako Moriya by holding out a thin vine that immediately rusted all of Suwako's iron weaponry. However, the people of Suwako's kingdom found it hard to accept their new god. To make her new world stronger, she used Suwako's powers. The truth is, Suwako was still in charge, while Kanako was their deity, but only by name. But over time, people started to doubt the idea of an afterlife, and Kanako was a bit like that. They grew stronger and invented ways to deal with the farming problems caused by heavy rain and wind. As they started to believe more in science and information, they started to lose their faith in gods like Kanako. This meant that Kanako's power was reduced. To solve this problem, Kanako decided that the best thing to do would be to leave the human world and find faith in Gensokyo. In the end, she was worshipped as a deity on Youkai Mountain. She then realised that the reason she had been accepted so quickly was because she had visited the Hakurei Shrine. Although people did not have much faith, the shrine was often visited by youkai. But Kanako did not know that the people living on the mountain, like the kappa and tengu, would become more powerful through worshipping her. She was worried about the balance of power in Gensokyo. To address this, she decided to recruit more believers from outside the area. To do this, she used the Hakurei Shrine. Kanako Yasaka from the Touhou Project series is 193 cm (6 feet 4 inches) tall. She is also often shown as a 1/8 scale figure, which is about 24.5 cm or 9.7 inches. Here's what it means: She is 193 cm tall (6'4"). 1/8 Scale Figure: A 1/8 scale figure, like the one produced by Griffon Enterprises, would be around 24.5 cm (9.7 inches) tall. This is a common scale for anime figures. Kanako's shirt is red and has long white sleeves. She also has a round mirror on her chest. She wears a long black skirt with a red flower print at the bottom. Her hair is blue and puffy, and her eyes are dark red. Behind her is a large, twisting rope circle called shimenawa with shide.