Onimusha: Way of the Sword Collectibles — All 275 by Area

The 275, by category

Eleven rows, 275 items. Three of them are not really “collectibles” in the pick-it-up sense — Chance Encounters and Mysteries are side activities, and Oni Armaments are story rewards — but the trophy list treats them as checklists, so PowerPyx counts them and so do we. The two Well-Rounded rows are the same trophy from two currencies; Dressed to Kill likewise.

Which zones hold what

Nobody has published one table with every count per zone, and we are not going to invent one — PowerPyx organises by category and only splits stones and Lion Dogs by area. What the per-area headings do establish:

• Power Stones are spread over Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Eastern Kyoto, the Underground Laboratory, Mount Oe and Arashiyama.
• Oni Stones sit in Eastern Kyoto, the Kyoto Imperial Palace, Mount Oe, Arashiyama and Shanaoh Castle — note the late-game weighting, which is half the reason a first run comes up short.
• Lion Dogs are grouped into five areas: Kiyomizu-dera, Nijo-jo Castle, Eastern Kyoto, Mount Oe and Arashiyama, with the Eastern Kyoto hub holding the largest share.
• All five Hidden Treasures, and most Chance Encounters and Mysteries, are in the Eastern Kyoto hub — the open town is where the side content lives.

The zone names you will see across guides, with their spelling variants: Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Oni Refuge, Depths – Kiyomizu-dera, Eastern Kyoto, Nijo-jo Castle, Underground Laboratory, Kyoto Imperial Palace, Mount Oe, Arashiyama, and Shanaoh Castle (PowerPyx spells it “Shanoah”).

Hidden Treasures 1–5 and the Old Drawings

These are the five Chance Encounters that start with an NPC handing you an Old Drawing — VGC notes it “looks more like a photograph” — of a spot in Eastern Kyoto. Three guides agree on every location; the chest contents come from Power Up Gaming alone.

Two of those reward lines are worth flagging because the most-cited English list omits them: No. 4 also pays a Tamahagane, and No. 5 a Skeleton Hozuki — the item the Medical Marvel trophy wants. Both are confirmed by a Japanese quest database and an English trophy guide independently. Every other Chance Encounter and its reward is on the missions and side quests page.

The unlock column follows PowerPyx’s per-treasure gating; Power Up Gaming instead says the set “becomes available once you reach” the mission “To Live is to Suffer” ⚠ CONFLICT — the two gating accounts differ; PowerPyx is the more granular. If a drawing has not been offered yet, advance the story rather than searching.

Lion Dogs: 36, and why yours will not spawn yet

The most-searched category, and the one with the most confused players, because the game hides the whole set behind a mid-game mission. PowerPyx is explicit: the dogs “aren’t unlocked until completing ‘What Lurks in the Shadows’”, and for maps other than the one you are in, they “will not spawn there until the entire map has been liberated and the final boss of that map has been defeated.” So an empty map early on is not a bug. Every six dogs unlock a skin — Sakurahime at 6, Shishioh at 12, Myogo at 18, Ura-giri at 24, Mooncrossed at 30, Kikoku at 36 — a threshold list now confirmed by two guides; the full cosmetics picture is on the costumes page. Do not confuse the dogs with the Lion Dog charm: that is the pre-order bonus charm (follow-up attack power up), unrelated to the count.

Genma Notes: 23, unmarked, one after the credits

PowerPyx calls Genma Notes “the only collectibles that won’t be marked naturally on the map,” which is why they are the category people finish last. Twenty-two are available during the story. The twenty-third is the game’s single post-story pickup:

Mysteries of Kyoto and Chance Encounters: 8 + 18

Both sets are side activities, both are gated by story progress, and both count toward trophies. The eight Mysteries are locked until “What Lurks in the Shadows”: The Light of Vengeance; A Wife’s Prayer; Something in the Water; The Blessed Man; The Night Parade; The Faceless; The Three Worms [Worm-ly Ways]; and Hanging Monkeys [Some Unfinished Monkey Business] — the last requires the one before it. Charms are among the rewards: Maxroll credits the Blazing Charm to Worm-ly Ways and the Oni Strength Charm to Some Unfinished Monkey Business.

The eighteen Chance Encounters arrive in waves as missions complete: Pale Lights in a Night Sky; Clear Space, Clear Mind; five Ace Archer challenges (one per region — Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Nijo-jo Castle, Kyoto Imperial Palace, Mount Oe, Arashiyama); The Growling Ghost; the five Hidden Treasures above; An Ugly Business; Noisy Neighbors; The Odd Couples; A Fishy Story; and Restless Spirits (which rewards the Charm of Oni Power). PowerPyx lists the unlocking mission for each.

Stones, cloth and steel: the 158 or 159 upgrade materials

More than half the count is currency. 54 Power Stones buy Basic skills, and PowerPyx says you can find enough in one playthrough to upgrade everything. 55 Oni Stones — or 54; see the count note at the top — buy Special skills — the armament upgrades — and here the same guide is blunt: you will not find enough Oni Stones in one playthrough to fully upgrade the Oni Gauntlet; skills carry into NG+ and the stones respawn to be collected again. That is why GamesRadar’s reassurance that “only early improvements require these rare stones” reads differently from PowerPyx’s per-skill costs of two to three stones each ⚠ CONFLICT — we present both; the completionist experience matches PowerPyx. PowerPyx’s own advice for collectors: spend your first Oni Stones on Oni Vision: Treasures, Oni Vision: Treasures 2 and Oni Vision: Search Range before anything else. 25 Fine Silk Cloths and 25 Tamahagane upgrade clothing and the sword at the Spirit Mirror; both are finite world pickups, and both feed the Dressed to Kill trophy. Which armament to spend on first is argued out on the weapons page.

Charms: 15 to find, 21 named, 3 slots

The trophy counts 15 world charms. On top of those sit six bonus charms — Kubi Akari from the demo save, Lion Dog and White Monkey from early purchase, and Oni Lady, Little Dancer and Mentor from the Deluxe editions — for 21 named in total. Maxroll’s guide says “22” in one sentence and “16 to find” in another, but its own table lists 21, so 15 + 6 is the safe count ⚠ Maxroll’s prose and table disagree. Slots: one at the start, then Charm Capacity 1 (after the first Oni Portal, 2 Power Stones) and Charm Capacity 2 (after the third, 3 Power Stones) for a maximum of three — Maxroll and PowerPyx agree, and the “four slots” figure on AI guide sites matches neither. Each charm’s effect, the quest that awards it and what upgrading all fifteen costs are on the charms page.

Is there an interactive map?

Not a complete one, a week after launch. This is the current state of every map source we could verify, so you do not have to click through them all:

We are not building a map of our own — there is no marker data to build it from that is not someone else’s — but we will update this table the day one of these fills in the missing zones.

Point of no return, and what NG+ does to the count

You can free-roam and collect everything “up until the Point of No Return before the final mission ‘The Clash At Rendaino’” (PowerPyx’s spelling; Maxroll writes “Rendiano”), and the post-credits Continue puts you back before that mission with the map open, which is why the trophy guide lists zero missables. New Game+ keeps your skills and resets the stones on the map, so a second run is where the last Oni Stone upgrades — and the Carnage difficulty reward — come from. The full carry-over table is on the trophy page.

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