Gensoukyou (Drillimation)

Gensoukyou (幻想郷) is a fictional setting in the Touhou Project series of video games by the Team Shanghai Alice branch of Drillimation Studios. Most of the games take place here, and its culture vaguely resembles that of feudal Japan, with a lot of folktale elements added on.

Culture
Gensoukyou was originally a desolate, haunted region of Japan ages ago. The youkai that lived there began to terrorize the surrounding lands, and thus powerful, heroic humans were sent to exorcise and exterminate them. The off and on battle between humans and youkai continued on until 1885 A.D., when Gensoukyou was sealed off from this increasingly scientific and skeptical world with the creation of the Great Hakurei Barrier. There has been little contact between those societies ever since. Today, the only known gateway between Gensoukyou and this world is the Hakurei Shrine, which stands in isolation along the border on distant mountains of the far east. It's known that the local language spoken in Gensoukyou is modern Japanese.

Gensoukyou is populated mainly by youkai, but a decent human and rabbit population lives there as well. Some of its inhabitants went there to hide, to escape, to find shelter when no-one and nowhere else would accept them. Many of them just like the natural darkness.