Daikoku-no-Kami

Daikoku-no-Kami Whispers of Shadow and Steel, by Mari Murdock was the Fortune of Wealth and Commerce, Beneath, Below, Beyond, by Annie VanderMeer Mitsoda one of the Seven Fortunes. Legend of the Five Rings - Roleplaying, p. 15 He was often featured with a rice bowl, a rat, or the Fortune's signature hammer. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 82
== Appearance and Demeanor ==
Daikoku was a good friend of Ebisu. He embodied contradiction, being cheerful and jolly, with plump lucky earlobes, but his skin was smeared with the ash of the grave. His great wooden mallet showered gold coins with every strike, but his association with death and cemeteries reminded people that their wealth would not follow them into Meido. He sat atop several fat bales of rice to represent riches and plenty, but a mischief of ravenous rats gnawed at those bales eternally to remind us that wealth means nothing if not invested and defended. Merchants and farmers were his most devoted followers. Fortunist monks devoted to Daikoku frequently reminded well-born samurai not to take their wealth for granted: while money could not buy happiness, the lack of adequate money, food, or shelter could certainly place one in debt to sorrow. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 140
== The Pity of Daikoku ==
The mandate of Daikoku was to spend one's wealth as readily as one accumulated it, so that all might share in its bounty. Those souls who fixated on wealth became gaki, and Daikoku had great pity for them. The Fortune maintained an estate in Gaki-dō, to aid the hungry spirits in their self-realization offering them some respite in the form of sustenance or gold, a practice known as segaki. This sometimes set Daikoku at odds with Emma-Ō, the Fortune of Death. One in ten gaki whom Daikoku treated this way, realized their state and rejected Daikoku's offerings, immediately becoming redeemed and fit to reincarnate. Celestial Realms, pp. 28-29
Category:Fortunes (TCG)