Chifune

Chifune was a merchant woman without any living blood relatives, devoted her whole life to a large shipbuilding business, treating both employees and clients with the utmost fairness and paying her employees generously. When she passed away Chifune was a sorei, or ancestor spirit, who wounded up watching over her shipbuilding business, and she took on the protection of similar shipyards, enjoying the veneration and sacrifices of various shipwrights and their laborers.