Tsurugaoka

Tsurugaoka
Japanese Name	ツルガオカ
Weapon	Whip
Race	Beast
Nationality	Nishiki
Birthday	May 20
Constellation	Taurus
Talents	Making fabrics from yarn spun with her own feathers
Likes	Household chores, Antiquities, Ginkgo, Husbandry, Repayment of favors
Dislikes	Ungrateful people, Revealing fashion, Modern entertainment
Strengths	Good at general housework (especially weaving)
Weaknesses	Ignorant of modern values and ethics
Hobbies	Devoting herself to service her future husband

Tsurugaoka

This is a matter of total silence under normal circumstances, but I will tell this to you, Teishu-sama. I am a member of the dark side of M. Nishiki, an assassination squadron known unofficially as the Yamiyo no Karasu. You can think of us as ninjas... or as they are called on the surface, or something else similar... We take on dirty work, which is more filthy and abhorred.

Layers

Icon	Title	Release Date	Where to Obtain
	[Crane's Return of a Favor] Tsurugaoka	2022 May 31	[Administrative Society Messiah] Pick Up Gacha, Premium Gacha
	[The Lone Crane Fluttering Silently] Tsurugaoka	2022 April 22	[Ice Flower Magic Teacher and the Lunatic Performer] Limited Gacha
	[Dearly Beloved] Tsurugaoka	2024 January 12	[The Uncaught Racoon in Jiulong Castle] Pick Up Gacha, Premium Gacha
	[Even a Chance Meeting is of Fate] Tsurugaoka	2022 May 23	[Subterranean Noble and the Dancing Crane Under the Moonlight] Limited Gacha

Owned Skills

Skills
Skill Name	SP Cost	RP Cost	Power	Element	Range	Effect
Normal Attack	-	-	E		Short/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow).
Foundation Strike	3 (2)	-	D		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow).
Battered	5 (4)	-	C		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow) and rarely inflicts Stun (Moderate) for 1 turn. Additionally, if the target enemy's type is human, damage dealt is significantly increased.
Punk Whip	5 (4)	-	E		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow) and rarely inflicts confusion (Moderate) for 2 turns.
Wide Fluence	5 (4)	-	E		Long/All	Attacks all enemies with physical damage (Blow).
Air Fluence	8 (6)	-	D		Long/All	Attacks all enemies with physical damage (Blow) or physical damage (Wind).
Crush Whip	8 (6)	-	A		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow).
Hakka Da (Link Skill)	8 (6)	-	B		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow) or physical damage (Fire).
						Link Condition When Hakka Da is selected, select other Blow Element or Fire Element skills total 3+ excluding self on the same turn. Activated Effect Increases self and linked Layers' ATK by 25%. Effect lasts only for the turn it is used.
Honou Tenjou (Link Skill)	8 (6)	-	B		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow) or physical damage (Fire).
						Link Condition When Honou Tenjou is selected, select other Blow Element or Fire Element skills total 3+ excluding self on the same turn. Activated Effect Increases self and linked Layers' ATK by 20%. Also, gain buff 'Recover HP after attacking'. Effect lasts only for the turn it is used.
Twin Dragon Strike	8 (6)	-	B		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow) and decreases ATK (Moderate) for 2 turns. If the enemy's species is Devil, damage dealt is significantly increased.
Cherry Blossom Whip	13 (10)	-	B		Long/All	Attacks all enemies with physical damage (Blow) or physical damage (Wind).
Enen Buyou (Link Skill)	13 (10)	-	SS		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow) or physical damage (Fire).
						Link Condition When Enen Buyou is selected, select other Blow Element or-Fire Element included double-element skills total 2+ excluding self on the same turn. Activated Effect Gain buff 'At the start of the turn, increases Layer with the lowest HP percentage's Condition by 75% for 1 turn'. This effect is permanent for the rest of the battle.
Slaughter Beam	13 (10)	-	B		Long/All	Decreases all enemies' DEF (Moderate) for 2 turns and attacks all enemies with physical damage (Blow).
Pulverized Structure	14 (11)	-	SS		Mid/Single	Attacks a single enemy with physical damage (Blow).
Tsuru no Itomusu			S		Long/All	Attacks all enemies with physical damage (Blow). [Effect changes with number of charges]

Trivia

• Tsurugaoka's birthday is the opening date of Kita-Kamakura Station in 1890. This station is the closest train station serving Tsurugaoka Hachimangū.
• Tsurugaoka's beast motif is the red-crowned crane, a large East Asian crane among the rarest cranes in the world. In some parts of its range, it is known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity.
• Tsurugaoka's hobbies and interests are themed after the story of Tsuru no Ongaeshi (鶴の恩返し, "Crane's Return of a Favor"), a story from Japanese folklore about a crane who returns a favor to a man. A variant of the story where a man marries the crane that returns the favor is known as Tsuru Nyōbō (鶴女房, "Crane Wife").
• Tsurugaoka's assassin background and her favourite food (ginkgo) is based on the legend of Minamoto no Sanetomo's assassination. Under heavy snow on the evening of February 13, 1219, Sanetomo was coming down from the Senior Shrine at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū after participating in a ceremony celebrating his nomination to Udaijin. His nephew, Kugyō, hid behind the ginkgo tree from beside the stone stairway of the shrine and assassinated him. For his act, he was himself beheaded a few hours later, thus bringing the Seiwa Genji line of the Minamoto clan and their rule in Kamakura to a sudden end. This very same ginkgo tree was toppled by strong winds in 2010.
• The building in the background of [Even a Chance Meeting is of Fate] is the Tsurugaoka Hachimangū, which is the basis of her name origin.

Counterpart

Kita-Kamakura Station (北鎌倉駅) is a railway station on the Yokosuka Line in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Kita-Kamakura Station opened 20 May 1927 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR), the pre-war predecessor to the Japanese National Railways (JNR) to serve the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal and related Imperial Japanese Navy facilities at Yokosuka. It was initially a temporary stop, in operation from the months of May through October, but was upgraded to a full station on 1 October 1930, at which time the present station building was completed. The station came under the management of JR East upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987.

Kita-Kamakura Station has two opposed side platforms serving two tracks, which are connected by a level crossing at the Kamakura end of the platforms. The station building is located on the side of the up (Tokyo-bound) track at the end of the platform nearest to Kamakura. To reach the down platform, passengers must cross the tracks via a level-crossing.

On the side of the tracks leading away from Tokyo there is special exit which, like the Front Exit, is usable all day. It is mainly intended for disembarking, but passengers who already have a ticket from this station, or who are using a Suica or Suica-affiliated IC card can enter here. There is no automatic ticket gate, and only a very simple Suica touch point. There is one more special exit on the same side of the tracks, near the middle of the platform. It is only usable during the morning rush hour, Golden Week, and other times when the station is very crowded. During crowded weekend days and holidays there is a station attendant manning the ticket gate there, allowing payment in cash. A simple Suica touch point was installed in 2008.

The current station includes many stairs and the station is barrier-free in 2013. Elevators are installed where there are stairs, both platforms will have wheelchair ramps, extending the platforms by seven meters, the entire platforms will be covered by a roof, and a multi-purpose toilet will be installed. Wikipedia

Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (鶴岡八幡宮) is the most important Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The shrine is a cultural center of the city of Kamakura and serves as the venue of many of its most important festivals with two museums. For most of its history, it served both as a Hachiman shrine, and in latter years a Tendai Buddhist temple typical of Japanese Buddhist architecture. The famed Buddhist priest Nichiren Daishonin once reputedly visited the shrine to reprimand the kami Hachiman just before his execution at Shichirigahama beach.

This shrine was originally built in 1063 as a branch of Iwashimizu Shrine in Zaimokuza where tiny Moto Hachiman now stands and dedicated to the Emperor Ōjin, (deified with the name Hachiman, tutelary kami of warriors), his mother Empress Jingu and his wife Hime-gami. Minamoto no Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura shogunate, moved it to its present location in 1191 and invited Hachiman to reside in the new location to protect his government. The shrine caught a major fire in 14 November 1280, where several artifacts were also stolen from the inner sanctum of the shrine.

The ginkgo tree that stood next to Tsurugaoka Hachimangū's stairway almost from its foundation and which appears in almost every old print of the shrine was completely uprooted and greatly damaged at 4:40 in the morning on March 10, 2010. According to an expert who analyzed the tree, the fall is likely due to rot. Both the tree's stump and a section of its trunk replanted nearby have produced leaves. The tree was nicknamed kakure-ichō (隠れ銀杏, hiding ginkgo) because according to an Edo period urban legend, a now-famous assassin hid behind it before striking his victim. For details, see the article Shinpen Kamakurashi. Wikipedia

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