Order of Bishamon (TCG)

The Order of Bishamon was a sect of the Brotherhood of Shinsei devoted to Bishamon, the Fortune of Strength. The Bishamon monks' headquarters was Bishamon's Divine Library, in the highlands near Otosan Uchi.

Duties
One of its duties was to study, meditate, and create art in the tradition of Shinseist monks everywhere. The other was to uphold and conduct all of the traditional rites for the propitiation and honor of Fortunes, including the maintenance of the Fortunes' shrines.

Tradition
These monks were particularly notorious for their habit of protesting in response to political decisions that displeased them. They took Bishamon's shintai from its shrine in the library, placed it in a traveling housing that could be carried on several burly monks' shoulders, and marched en masse from their monasteries, waving armaments and rosaries and chanting slogans or sutras. They crowded into the streets of a town or city near where the offense took place and drew massive crowds of common folk. There, the loudest and angriest monks orated on the subject of the sins involved in whatever decision they believed was unjust, on the no-doubt-horrific consequences of such a decision for the Empire's future, and on the offending authority's inevitable reincarnation as a flatworm or similarly repugnant being.