Hwanji
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 Chaeyung to set out the morning meal, addresses what she takes to be the Chosen when it is in fact Painter in her shape, and flees with Chaeyung when he eats his own offering.
- STD:YNP:Ch 9 Returns with Chaeyung to set out the morning meal again after Liyun's intervention, having been told the Chosen was caught in remnants of a dream.
- STD:YNP:Ch 10 Walks with Chaeyung and the soaps to the cool spring, bathes Painter alongside her, and helps re-dress him in the fresh tobok before he faints.
- STD:YNP:Ch 12 Serves the morning meal alongside Chaeyung.
- STD:YNP:Ch 12 Bathes Painter alongside Chaeyung.
- STD:YNP:Ch 18 Attends Painter (worn as Yumi) at the spring alongside Chaeyung — gathering his clothing and standing with head down through the ritual apology.
- STD:YNP:Ch 20 Hurries after Painter alongside Chaeyung with raised fans, trying to obscure their charge from the village crowd as he pushes through to see what the scholars from Torio City have brought.
- STD:YNP:Ch 22 Carries the small tray of side dishes at Chaeyung's elbow when Painter flips protocol and accepts food directly.
- STD:YNP:Ch 22 Stands beside Chaeyung at the cool spring until Painter dismisses the pair so he can bathe himself.
- STD:YNP:Ch 22 Helps deliver lunch under Liyun's glare and quietly leaves with Chaeyung once Painter is fed.
- STD:YNP:Ch 22 Lingers at the wagon doorway, formally bows to ground level with a clog under her knee, and — believing Painter already knows — explains the schism, her former service to the reformist Dwookim, and that almost all current yoki-hijo live this way.
- STD:YNP:Ch 23 Escorts Painter to the shrine alongside Chaeyung and slips back out of sight before he begins the sneak.
- STD:YNP:Ch 24 Brings water from a canteen between Painter's attempts after his hands begin to shake from exhaustion.
- STD:YNP:Ch 31 Walks with Yumi to the ritual and, beside Chaeyung, confirms in a low voice that something is wrong with the scholars' creations.
- STD:YNP:Ch 34 Cheers the decision — *I knew something was wrong with those scholars* — contrasting them with kindly scholars who once helped her home village with a crop disease, and is sent to fetch the town officials.
- STD:YNP:Ch 35 Feeds and dresses Yumi and holds one of the screening fans on the walk to the cold spring — the morning back to its ordinary yoki-hijo choreography.
- STD:YNP:Ch 40 Among the nightmares in the wave; Painter's final restoration of the night, dropped to the ground as herself with her hair painted in.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 2
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 8
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 9
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 12
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 19
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 20
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 22
- factYumi
- factYoki-hijo
- factYoki-hijo
- factDwookim
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 23
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 24
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 31
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 34
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 35
- summarySTD:YNP:Ch 40
- factNikaro