An interpretation grounded in the imagery and captions of Toriyama Sekien’s Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro. The document cart was a conveyance for papers in the imperial court, temples, and aristocratic residences, kept ready for emergencies. The accumulated sentiments within long-kept love letters are thought to congeal and manifest as a lady-in-waiting–like apparition. With little basis in oral tradition, this is a conceptual yokai born of early modern literature and painting, more often told as a presence that displays and summons remorse than as one causing concrete harm. The customary name is Fumikuruma Yohi, though later sources sometimes confuse it with Fumikuruma Yoki.
Character Profile
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Yokai Type - Traditional Yokai
Category - Animated Objects & Undead
Rarity - Rare
Personality - deeply fixated, serene
Compatibility - in conflict with those who stir up lingering attachments and affairs of passion
Abilities - summoning scrolls and love letters, reciting handwriting and phrasing to revive memories, illusions that seem to expose secrets of lingering attachments and illicit affairs
Weaknesses - ritual burning and memorial reading of sutras for the letters, disposal and funerary rites for correspondence to dissolve its obsession, avoidance by remaining in purified places
Habitat - corners of archives and studies, temple document repositories, around the document cart in aristocratic mansions
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