Chaeyung
One of Yumi's two attendants, who feed her, dress her, and hold the great fans that screen her from public view as a yoki-hijo must not dress, undress, or feed herself. STD:YNP:Ch 2
Events
- STD:YNP:Ch 2 Bows in ritual posture as she enters Yumi's wagon, feeds her with maipon sticks and spoons, bathes her in the cold spring, and dresses her for the day.
- STD:YNP:Ch 8 Enters Yumi's wagon with Hwanji to deliver the morning rice and the small floor-table, walks straight through the incorporeal Yumi without seeing her, and flees in horror when the stranger in Yumi's body takes the bowl and eats from it himself.
- STD:YNP:Ch 9 Returns with Hwanji after Liyun orders the rituals to resume, sets out a fresh bowl of rice, and feeds Painter bite by bite while he follows the ritual cues Yumi is whispering to him.
- STD:YNP:Ch 10 Walks the procession to the cool spring with Hwanji, undresses with her at poolside, bathes Painter with ritual soaps, dunks him for the ritual count, and helps him into a new tobok afterwards.
- STD:YNP:Ch 12 Serves the morning meal and wipes Painter's mouth for him before withdrawing in favour of Liyun.
- STD:YNP:Ch 12 Bathes Painter in the spring and returns with towels and clothing when he steps out.
- STD:YNP:Ch 18 Attends Painter (worn as Yumi) at the spring alongside Hwanji — dressing him afterwards, eyes down through the ritual apology in proxy humiliation for their charge.
- STD:YNP:Ch 20 Tries to follow Painter out of the place of ritual toward the crowd, hurrying to catch up with fans to shield him from view as he pushes through the village toward the scholars' wagon.
- STD:YNP:Ch 22 Stands outside the wagon with the low table when Painter takes the tray himself and shuts the door on her bewildered face.
- STD:YNP:Ch 22 Brought along to undress and bathe Painter in the usual ritual, dismissed instead and sent off down the path with Hwanji.
- STD:YNP:Ch 22 Brings the lunch tray with Hwanji; sits and offers utensils when Painter declines to be hand-fed.
- STD:YNP:Ch 22 Returns Painter's laundered nightgown, briefly checks that he intends to dress himself, then bows and walks off before Hwanji makes her revelation.
- STD:YNP:Ch 23 Walks Painter down to the orchard shrine for the day's meditation and leaves with Hwanji before the sneak begins.
- STD:YNP:Ch 24 Walks Painter from the orchard through the town with Hwanji at his side and stays nearby through the long stacking session.
- STD:YNP:Ch 31 Walks with Yumi to the ritual and, when invited, finally lets herself complain — the scholars' creations *don't work as well*, and the farmers know it. The eagerness of her speech reveals how starved she has been of permission to talk to the yoki-hijo she has served for years.
- STD:YNP:Ch 34 Stands with Liyun and Hwanji as the yoki-hijo's command lands; looks to Liyun for the cue before joining the bow.
- STD:YNP:Ch 35 Holds the other screening fan as Yumi walks to the cold spring and undresses her for the bath; says nothing about her strange distracted glances.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 2
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 8
- factYumi
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 9
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 10
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 12
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 19
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- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 22
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- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 31
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 34
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 35