Firefighting Incantation

The Firefighting Incantation (せの, hifuse no juka) is a song used by shinki to extinguish flames.

Casting Sequence
Like all songs, this technique requires an incantation. "/ のに / の / のに / の (Original Japanese text)" "Shimo bashira / Koori no hari ni / Yuki no keta / Ame no taruki ni / Tsuyu no fuki kusa (Romaji transliteration)" "Come, pillars of frost / Crossbeams of crystalline ice / And girders of snow / Rafters of the falling rain / And thatch covering of dew (Official English translation)"

Applications

 * Kazune is able to perform unique attacks in his vessel form by using an anagram of the Firefighting Incantation.
 * Crimson Petals (, sekka): This rearrangement creates a series of timed explosions.
 * Microburst (, shūu): This rearrangement creates a rain of arrows.

Restrictions

 * Thus far, this song has only been used on fires created by beings of the Far Shore, and it is unspecified whether it would also work on Near Shore fires.

Usages

 * Yukine uses the Firefighting Incantation to extinguish a fire created by an ayakashi.
 * Yukine later uses it to douse the flames created by Kazuma's incantation.

Trivia

 * Its incantation is a tanka poem of unknown authorship that has been used for many years as a way of warding off fires.
 * Although Yukine learned this song from Kazuma, Kazuma is never shown using the original incantation.