A natural-born dowser. They say she controls a great number of field mice to find what she's looking for.

However, if it's food, the mice will eat it all up before they can get it to her. She is cunning and will flee from a fight as soon as she sees an enemy stronger than herself.

It seems she was ordered to look for something by somebody, but what could it be...

An umbrella that was left unused and became a youkai. She was originally an umbrella someone forgot, but since the colour is unpopular, nobody ever picked her up, and she was carried off by the wind and became a youkai.

She rarely really hurts anyone, she just likes watching people be surprised. However, not many people have been surprised by her, so she's reading classic ghost stories to improve her technique.

A youkai guarding the ship which seems to have a secret. She controls the nyuudou Unzan. She was using nyuudou to keep watch.

She wasn't ordered by someone to stand guard, she's doing it of her own accord. It's unknown just what she's after.

Ichirin's personality is very straightforward, but she's quick-thinking and understands things easily. Unzan is kind of dull, so it's easy for her to control him.

The spirit of a human who fell off a ship and drowned in the distant past; due to her lingering attachment to this world, she was bound to the ocean and spent her days capsizing passing ships.

Humans feared her. Their fears turned her into a youkai, and over time, her ability to act freely was getting more and more restricted. People called her Murasa, based on her original name.

And so one day she reached a turning point...

A youkai representing good fortune. Byakuren, long a devotee Bishamonten, thought to call him to her temple, but the god was very busy, and was almost never there.

Byakuren realized that the youkai near the temple had been afraid. It seemed that they feared Bishamonten. Perhaps they thought they would be exterminated.

With Bishamonten too busy to visit the temple, and the youkai too scared to approach it, Byakuren hatched a clever plan. She introduced to Bishamonten the youkai of the most honest and upright character on the mountain and had that youkai gather faith in his stead.

The one so chosen was Shou. She was a youkai in the form of a tiger and the most trusted youkai on the mountain. The busy Bishamonten did not deny her his discipleship.

However, she hadn't yet earned the god's full confidence, and Bishamonten sent his hench-mouse Nazrin to keep watch on her.

But contrary Bishamonten's concerns, Shou caused no problems whatever. She proved to be an excellent servant.

But she was perhaps too excellent. When Byakuren was sealed away, Shou dutifully carried out all her duties in Bishamonten's service without causing any disturbance. She kept it a secret from the humans that she was a youkai. She had her regrets about this, but revealing her true identity would have been suicidal.

During the few hundreds centuries following Byakuren's disappearance, the temple fell to ruin, and her companions, who had been sealed away in the depths of the earth, made their return.

Shou was tired of her regrets. She would not run away. She told Murasa and the others how to lift the seal. She was a youkai, after all. She wanted to put all her power into bringing Byakuren back.

"To break the seal, we'll need the power of Byakuren's brother Myouren. All that's left are a flying warehouse and the floating treasures... Murasa, let's take the ship and go look for it!"

Byakuren's younger brother Myouren was a legendary monk. With ease he could cure the illnesses of people in faraway places and send away a flying bowl to carry off the granaries of the miserly rich.

In her later years, Byakuren, studied the way of the Dharma under her brother. She normally lived on the Flying Storehouse, which was packed with Myouren's Dharmic power, and so naturally Byakuren gained power of her own.

But Myouren passed away before Byakuren, and in her grief, Byakuren was filled with a terrible fear of death. To save herself from dying, she learned the power of rejuvenation. But rather than the way of the Dharma, she got this power from youjutsu, a kind of witchcraft.

Having made the gift of rejuvention her own, the undying woman next came to fear losing her power.

The only way her youjutsu could be lost was if humanity were to reject it entirely. In other words, if youkai were to disappear, she would be unable to sustain her own power. Byakuren respected the youkai. On the surface she would accept requests to exterminate youkai, but underneath she would help those youkai.

She respected the youkai, but not out of hostility toward humans. At first was to serve her own desires, but as she learned of the of the youkai's pitiful past, 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. "With Byakuren here, we needn't fear the youkai anymore. We needn't spend our nights in fear," they said.

And so the gap between her wishes and the expectations gave birth to a terrible tragedy.

"She's a demon in human guise!" they said. She was sealed away in Makai, never to appear before humans again.

A great curiosity. An extremely mysterious youkai that flies the night sky. That is Nue.

She's been defeated by humans many times before, but each time, accounts of her appearance are different. According to one legend, she had the head of a monkey, the body of a raccoon dog, the legs of a tiger, and the tail of a snake. According to yet another legend, she had the head of a cat, the body of a chicken, and the tail of a snake.

These legends were all made up, though. In reality, she never showed people her true form. She just enjoyed watching humans get frightened and imagine all sorts of strange things from afar. That was her daily work.

Eventually she got tired of that and leisurely spent a long time deep beneath the earth's surface, but she got mixed up in the turmoil surrounding the geyser incident and appeared above ground once more.

She saw Murasa and the others who had been underground with her also come above ground and start plotting something. "Ah, finally I can have some fun again", she thought, and decided to give them some trouble by attaching the Seed of Unknown Form to the fragments of the Flying Granary.

The Seed of Unknown Form was a small snake-like flying object with no determined form. When people saw it, what they saw depended on their own experience and knowledge.

Since Reimu and the others didn't think that a block of wood had any business flying in the sky, they thought it was a round UFO of the sort that most exemplified unidentified flying objects.

Murasa and company thought that the fragments of the Flying Granary had been scattered about by the geyser, but it was in fact thanks to the Seed of Unknown Form.

In any case, when it looked like others were having fun, Nue would find a way to mess with them from afar. She didn't know what Murasa's group was planning, but she thought it would be funny if they failed.

However, humans appeared who seemed happy at the appearance of that unidentified flying object. She was interested to see what sort of human wouldn't be afraid of such a thing. So, she secretly followed them, sometimes helping them, sometimes getting in their way.

Eventually she found out that what Murasa was doing would benefit her, too, and came to regret what she'd done.