八坂神奈子 야사카카나코
The "Avatar of Mountains and Lakes".

Final boss of [[Touhou]]'s [[Mountain of Faith]], and later made playable in [[Sunken Fossil World]]. In canon appearance, she has short purple hair, wears a mirror on her chest, has a circular [[shimenawa]] floating behind her back. Her weapon is the [[onbashira]].

She is the goddess of the Moriya Shrine after defeating [[Moriya Suwako]] a long time ago, her symbol is a snake as signified by the [[shimenawa]], which she adopted to symbolize her victory over the frog-themed goddess Suwako. Some artists take the snake symbolism much further, such as depicting Kanako with [[slit pupils]] (as in the [[aged down]] [[snake-eyed Kanako]]), a [[long tongue|long]] and/or [[forked tongue]], and even as a [[lamia]]. Her true power is dominion over wind and rain. Due to her estimated age and imposing appearance, she is jokingly a member of the "Old Maids Alliance":/pools/1053.

h4. See also

* [[Moriya Suwako]] - fellow goddess of the Moriya Shrine
* [[Kochiya Sanae]] - shrine maiden of the Moriya Shrine
* [[Reiuji Utsuho]] - the hell raven who she had given godly power to
* [[snake-eyed Kanako]] - A generally young version of Kanako with snake-eyes.

h4. External links

* "Touhou Wiki: Kanako Yasaka":http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kanako_Yasaka
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