The "Avatar of Mountains and Lakes" (山坂と湖の権化).

Final boss of [[Touhou]] game number 10, [i][[Mountain of Faith]][/i], and later made playable in [i][[Sunken Fossil World]][/i]. 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.Typical Tags
[b]Person:[/b] [[short hair]], [[purple hair]], [[blue hair]], [[bangs]], [[red eyes]]
[b]Outfit:[/b] [[red shirt]], [[long sleeves]], [[puffy short sleeves]], [[short over long sleeves]], [[skirt]], [[long skirt]], [[black skirt]], [[brown skirt]], [[red skirt]], [[sandals]], [[zouri]]
[b]Accessories:[/b] [[shimenawa]], [[shide]], [[tassel]], [[leaf hair ornament]], [[autumn leaves]], [[ankleband]], [[mirror]], [[onbashira]]

h4. See also

* "Touhou Wiki article":http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kanako_Yasaka
* [[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.
八坂神奈子 야사카카나코