Chihaya Ayase

Birthday: June 1 (Gemini)

Blood type: B

Height: 167 cm

Weight: 54 kg

School: Municipal Mizusawa High School - Year 2 Class 9 - Karuta Club captain

Karuta Society: Shiranami Society, A Class

Favourite food: Chocolate, pollock squid

Hobby: Collecting Daddy Bear merchandise

A determined schoolgirl who "possesses a remarkable hearing ability." She believes that by persevering in karuta, she will meet Arata again, and begins a karuta club at her high school with Mashima. While she is beautiful, she is considered too weird; her classmates refer to her as a "waste of a beauty." She has been described as a "tomboy trapped in a supermodel's body."

Favourite Song: Poem #17

Even when the gods

Held sway in the ancient days,

I have never heard

That water gleamed with autumn red

As it does in Tatsuta's stream